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MySpace, the online community for music and networking, has hired a former prosecutor from the Justice Department to patrol the site and educate its users about privacy and child-exploitation issues. Hemanshu Nigam also has helped Microsoft develop security and child-safety strategies.

Starring Samuel L. Jackson, the film Snakes on a Plane has generated legions of fans on the Internet long before its scheduled release this summer. The fan base has grown so large that New Line Cinema has added new scenes based on suggestions from enthusiasts.

A new animated series, Loonatics Unleashed, debuts this fall. Early promotions of the show made some fans fear the Loonatics would replace classic Looney Tunes characters.

In much of the U.S. and Canada this week, the night sky is alight with the spectacular displays of red, green and white lights from the aurora borealis. NPR's Robert Siegel speaks with Anthony Arrigo on UtahSkies.org.

On the Fourth of July, 1855, a book of poetry by an unknown by the name of Walt Whitman came out to mixed reviews and widespread disinterest. Eventually, it changed the way poets thought... and sang... of themselves. Lynn Neary leads a discussion on Leaves of Grass.

Microsoft says starting Wednesday it will no longer support Internet Explorer. Resources and tech support will go to Microsoft Edge — an internet portal that the company calls new and improved.

Three battling brothers — who haven't spoken in the year since their father's funeral — flail and rail and bond on a trek across India in the latest comic oddity from Wes Anderson (Rushmore, Royal Tennenbaums).

Listeners have one day left to get in their stories for the current round of our "Three-Minute Fiction" contest. The four words that have to appear in each piece are plant, button, trick and fly.

KCLU is the NPR radio station northwest of the Los Angeles market, covering Ventura and Santa Barbara County.Lance Orozco is the station's only fill time…

Fifty years ago on New Year's Day, country superstar Hank Williams died while being driven to a performance. On Morning Edition, host Bob Edwards looks at Williams' musical legacy.