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    Press Play with Madeleine Brand

    Area 51 and the plan to find out what the government knows about aliens

    More than a million people are planning to break into Area 51, the mysterious government base in Nevada that's rumored to be where the U.S. military studies extraterrestrial life.

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    By Madeleine Brand • Jul 16, 2019 • 1 min read

    More than a million people are planning to break into Area 51, the mysterious government base in Nevada that's rumored to be where the U.S. military studies extraterrestrial life. A Facebook event called “Storm Area 51, They Can’t Stop All of Us" says on September 20 at 3:00 a.m., the group will raid the government facility. What started as an internet joke has now caught the attention of the U.S. Air Force.

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    With Libra, Facebook wants to create its own money. Lawmakers are skeptical
    1. 0:00Chaos and confusion as immigration officers get trained on new asylum rule
    2. 11:47Culture of crime and corruption within Customs and Border Protection
    3. 21:38Can Facebook launch its cryptocurrency without support of lawmakers?
    4. 30:58Network TV news is still more popular than cable news
    5. 42:38Area 51 and the plan to find out what the government knows about aliensYou’re reading this
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