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Novelist Kevin Baker has just published the third volume of his City on Fire trilogy. Strivers Row is set in Harlem in 1943. The story focuses on a fictional character — Jonah Dove — and the very real Malcolm Little, later to become Malcolm X.

A new film production of the Charles Dickens novel Bleak House will make its debut on PBS Sunday night. Gillian Anderson, of X-Files fame, plays Lady Honoria Dedlock. She tells Scott Simon about her role.

His new film is Baadasssss! It's the story of the making of 1971 classic Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song. In the film, Mario Van Peebles plays his father, director Melvin Van Peebles. Mario got his start directing and starring in the film New Jack City. Other acting credits include the role of Malcolm X in the film Ali, and a role in Ten Thousand Black Men Named George, about the unionization of Pullman train porters.

Our panelists predict, now that Lil Nas X broke the record with "Old Town Road," what will be his next big hit.

UPDATE: LAUNCH TIME CHANGED TO 2:05 pm.Today SpaceX will attempt to launch the Falcon Heavy rocket Tuesday. This will be the first flight of the heaviest…

Trump described her mother, Amalija Knavs, as strong and graceful in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter. Knavs, a native of Slovenia, became a U.S. citizen in 2018.

The Federal Aviation Administration has begun the first installation of its latest runway safety system, designed to prevent collisions on the ground. The FAA hopes to install the system at 34 major airports between now and 2011. Critics say the system is overdue and undersized.

The Trump administration has finalized new rules that bar federally funded family planning clinics from referring women for abortions. Abortion-rights supporters call that prohibition a "gag" rule.

The billionaire wants to deploy thousands of satellites in order to provide global Internet, but astronomers say they could create unsightly glare.

The Indicator hosts reports on a recently launched investment fund that takes on startups abandoned by venture capital investors because they are not growing fast enough to become "unicorns."