Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh dies after battle with lung cancer

Rush Limbaugh, a conservative radio personality who was the bane of Democratic presidents and who built an audience of millions of listeners on the Right, has died after a battle with lung cancer. He was 70. 

Limbaugh died Wednesday morning at his home in Palm Beach, Florida, his wife, Kathryn Adams Limbaugh, announced on his radio show.

Limbaugh, whose flair for showmanship and self-promotion led him to dub his five-days-a-week, three-hour radio program the "Excellence in Broadcasting" network, was one of the most influential conservative voices of the 1990s and for the first two decades of the 21st century.