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Pope Francis, the first South American pontiff, has died.

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the Federal Reserve. So there's lots out there concerning investors. It's Monday, April 21st. I'm Luke Vargas for the Wall Street Journal, and here is the

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The Vatican says that Pope Francis has died at the age of 88. Born Jorge Mario Bergolio,

Francis had battled a serious bout of pneumonia in recent months, and his health had remained fragile since.

With more, I'm joined by journal correspondent Margarita Stankatti. Margarita, tell us what do we know about the Pope's passing at this early hour?

So the Vatican at around 10 a.m. local time announced that Pope Francis had died.

They released a very short note in which they just said that the Pope had died at 7.35 this morning in Rome in his apartment in the Vatican.

The Pope had been very sick recently.

He had been hospitalized for about a month and returned home in mid-March. Now, he nearly died twice when he was in hospital with a severe respiratory illness. His health had improved,

but he was still looking very, very frail. And he was still receiving

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