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Not anymore. Now you are reminded of what the women did before you moved to NASA headquarters. This is because the street on which the building is located has been renamed Hidden Figures Way. The new name honors the work of Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson, the so-called "human computers" who have done complex calculations that made space …

The discovery of at least 60 dead seals that have been found on Alaska's west coast in recent months has astounded federal biologists who said the deaths were reported in "unusually high numbers." The government (NOAA) announced that Several reports of dead bearded, ringed and spotted seals have been received near Nome and north of the Bering Strait. <img src …

Southern California sheriff Joseph Gilbert Solano, who was shot and seriously injured while eating at a fast food restaurant on Monday, has died, officials said. Solano, a 13-year-old sheriff's deputy in Los Angeles County, died Wednesday afternoon amid relatives. Rhett Nelson, a 30-year-old man from Utah, who had been reported missing by his family, was missing investigators said when identifying …

Image Rights NASA Caption Katherine Johnson calculated the trajectory for Alan Shepard, the first American in space The street in front of Nasa headquarters was named "Hidden Figures Way" in honor of three African-American women whose work paved the way for future generations with the Space Agency. The name of the street in Washington DC is a nod to the …

US. The Customs and Border Police detain migrants "partially outdoors" near a bridge in El Paso an official confirmed to CBS News on Tuesday. Border Patrol did not state how many people were being held, but US MP Veronica Escobar told Texas Monthly that "at least a few hundred" people were being held outdoors. "During the current crisis, US Border …

Map locates the green zone in Baghdad, Iraq. BAGHDAD – Leading Iraqi Shiites warned Monday against attempts to drag their country into a war between the US and Iran, saying that this would make Iraq once again a battleground, just as it did on the Way of recreation is located. The warning came hours after a missile hit Baghdad's heavily …

By the time his master of the universe memoir "Trump: The Art of the Deal" hit bookstores in 1987, Donald J. Trump was already in deep financial distress, losing tens of millions of dollars on troubled business deals , according to previously unrevealed figures from his federal income tax returns. Mr. Trump was propelled to the presidency, in part, by …

SpaceX has launched an investigation into what caused the company's new passenger vehicle, the Dragon crew, to explode during a test over the weekend, but it's too early to know how the accident will affect schedules moving forward. Even before the accident occurred, SpaceX had a "large body of work" to complete it on the first time, according to a …

NASA renamed its independent verification and validation facility in West Virginia in honor of Katherine Johnson. [Getty Images] Katherine Johnson, the former NASA mathematician whose journey was featured in the 2016 Hidden Figures movie, received a great gift from the agency she employed years ago. The Independent Verification and Validation Facility (IV & V) located in Fairmont, West Virginia, was …

Macy's share rose more than 18 percent on Thursday before trading after the department store chain posted weak holiday sales in 2018 and lowered its earnings outlook for the year.