diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 87359657c5a..f3143abbc76 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -846,7 +846,7 @@ C-API
   Mercurial.
 
 - Issue #12173: The first argument of PyImport_ImportModuleLevel is now `const
-  char *` instead of `char *1`.
+  char *` instead of `char *`.
 
 Documentation
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