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  • City officials say replacing letters or symbols on buildings requires a permit for design and safety reasons. The installation is part of Elon Musk's effort to rebrand the social media platform.
  • La información falsa dirigida a la comunidad latina está creciendo. Gran parte de ella está diseñada para impulsar a los votantes o desalentar a las mujeres embarazadas a buscar atención medica.
  • Bob Edwards talks with Andrew Chaiken , editor of Space Illustrated Magazine, about NASA's decision to cancel development of a spacecraft known as the X-33. It was intended to be a replacement for the space shuttle.
  • A Brazilian Supreme Court justice authorized the restoration of the social media platform's service in Brazil, over a month after its nationwide shutdown, according to a court document.
  • Robert talks with John Pike, the director of Space Policy Programs at the Federation of American Scientists, about NASA's X-33 project to design a new spaceship. Vice President Gore announced the winning design today, chosen from entries by three American aerospace companies.
  • NPR's John McChesney reports on allegations that Microsoft's latest internet software has some serious security flaws which will put some users at risk. Microsoft says it's new Active-X technology is secure, but others claim it's still not fixed.
  • An upstart professional football league dreamed up by wrestling promoter Vince McMahon debuts this weekend. The X.F.L. promises a rough, raw brand of football that will appeal to teenage boys and young men. Critics are already dismissing the new league as a gimmick with no future. But NBC is betting that the X.F.L. has a chance to succeed. NPR's Chris Arnold has the story.
  • Jacki Lyden talks with former Chicago Tribune staff writer Sonsyrea Tate (SAHN-sur-ray). Tate is author "Little X: Growing up in the Nation of Islam" (Harper Collins San Francisco). It's a multigenerational account of her family's life in the Nation of Islam. A Washington DC native, Tate's grandparents joined the Nation of Islam in the 1950s. She notes the good and bad sides of her experiences before leaving the Nation of Islam as an adult and studying Orthodox Islam.
  • NPR's Margot Adler was in Harlem today to witness a deal resolving a longstanding controversy over what should be done with the papers of the civil rights and religious leader Malcolm X. The six Shabazz daughters agree to deposit the documents, photos and audiotapes with the Schomberg Center and the New York Public Library for 75 years. The family will retain intellectual and property rights, yet the public will have access to the archived materials.
  • Elon Musk has restored the X account of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones following a poll on the social media platform formerly known as Twitter.
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