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Maria Mercader 54, a veteran CBS journalist is dead from coronavirus

Maria Mercader 54, a veteran CBS journalist is dead from coronavirus

CBS News is mourning Maria Mercader, a longtime journalist with the news outlet who died in a New York hospital at 54 after battling coronavirus.  In a news release shared Sunday afternoon, CBS remembered Mercader as a “network veteran who covered breaking…

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101-year-old Katherine Johnson an American mathematician is dead

101-year-old Katherine Johnson an American mathematician is dead

Katherine Johnson (Katherine Coleman Goble Johnson), born on August 26, 1918, and died on February 24, 2020. She was an American mathematician whose calculations of orbital mechanics as a NASA employee were critical to the success of the first and the subsequent U.S. crewed spaceflights.…

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