diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index b0c5f762895..8ec1f01462b 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -362,7 +362,7 @@ Core and Builtins
 
 - Issue #15027: The UTF-32 encoder is now 3x to 7x faster.
 
-- Issue #23290:  Optimize set_merge() for cases where the target is empty.
+- Issue #23290: Optimize set_merge() for cases where the target is empty.
   (Contributed by Serhiy Storchaka.)
 
 - Issue #2292: PEP 448: Additional Unpacking Generalizations.
@@ -917,7 +917,7 @@ Library
   unnecessary copying of memoryview in gzip.GzipFile.write().
   Original patch by Wolfgang Maier.
 
-- Issue #23252:  Added support for writing ZIP files to unseekable streams.
+- Issue #23252: Added support for writing ZIP files to unseekable streams.
 
 - Issue #23647: Increase impalib's MAXLINE to accommodate modern mailbox sizes.
 
@@ -1638,10 +1638,10 @@ Library
 
 - Issue #21650: Add an `--sort-keys` option to json.tool CLI.
 
-- Issue #22824:  Updated reprlib output format for sets to use set literals.
+- Issue #22824: Updated reprlib output format for sets to use set literals.
   Patch contributed by Berker Peksag.
 
-- Issue #22824:  Updated reprlib output format for arrays to display empty
+- Issue #22824: Updated reprlib output format for arrays to display empty
   arrays without an unnecessary empty list.  Suggested by Serhiy Storchaka.
 
 - Issue #22406: Fixed the uu_codec codec incorrectly ported to 3.x.
@@ -1980,7 +1980,7 @@ Library
 - Issue #21448: Changed FeedParser feed() to avoid O(N**2) behavior when
   parsing long line.  Original patch by Raymond Hettinger.
 
-- Issue #22184:  The functools LRU Cache decorator factory now gives an earlier
+- Issue #22184: The functools LRU Cache decorator factory now gives an earlier
   and clearer error message when the user forgets the required parameters.
 
 - Issue #17923: glob() patterns ending with a slash no longer match non-dirs on
@@ -2155,7 +2155,7 @@ Library
 - Issue #21719: Added the ``st_file_attributes`` field to os.stat_result on
   Windows.
 
-- Issue #21832:  Require named tuple inputs to be exact strings.
+- Issue #21832: Require named tuple inputs to be exact strings.
 
 - Issue #21722: The distutils "upload" command now exits with a non-zero
   return code when uploading fails.  Patch by Martin Dengler.
@@ -2213,7 +2213,7 @@ Library
   error bubble up as this "bad data" appears in many real world zip files in
   the wild and is ignored by other zip tools.
 
-- Issue #13742:  Added "key" and "reverse" parameters to heapq.merge().
+- Issue #13742: Added "key" and "reverse" parameters to heapq.merge().
   (First draft of patch contributed by Simon Sapin.)
 
 - Issue #21402: tkinter.ttk now works when default root window is not set.
@@ -2244,7 +2244,7 @@ Library
 
 - Issue #21525: Most Tkinter methods which accepted tuples now accept lists too.
 
-- Issue #22166:  with the assistance of a new internal _codecs._forget_codec
+- Issue #22166: With the assistance of a new internal _codecs._forget_codec
   helping function, test_codecs now clears the encoding caches to avoid the
   appearance of a reference leak
 
@@ -2304,7 +2304,7 @@ Library
   Decimal.quantize() method in the Python version.  It had never been
   present in the C version.
 
-- Issue #21469:  Reduced the risk of false positives in robotparser by
+- Issue #21469: Reduced the risk of false positives in robotparser by
   checking to make sure that robots.txt has been read or does not exist
   prior to returning True in can_fetch().
 
@@ -2595,7 +2595,7 @@ IDLE
 - Issue #16233: A module browser (File : Class Browser, Alt+C) requires a
   editor window with a filename.  When Class Browser is requested otherwise,
   from a shell, output window, or 'Untitled' editor, Idle no longer displays
-  an error box.  It now pops up an  Open Module box (Alt+M). If a valid name
+  an error box.  It now pops up an Open Module box (Alt+M). If a valid name
   is entered and a module is opened, a corresponding browser is also opened.
 
 - Issue #4832: Save As to type Python files automatically adds .py to the
@@ -3524,7 +3524,7 @@ Tools/Demos
   "{dirname}/clinic/{basename}.h".
 
 - Issue #20390: Argument Clinic's "class" directive syntax has been extended
-  with two new required  arguments: "typedef" and "type_object".
+  with two new required arguments: "typedef" and "type_object".
 
 - Issue #20390: Argument Clinic: If __new__ or __init__ functions didn't use
   kwargs (or args), the PyArg_NoKeywords (or PyArg_NoPositional) calls
@@ -4591,10 +4591,10 @@ Library
 - Issue #9548: Add a minimal "_bootlocale" module that is imported by the
   _io module instead of the full locale module.
 
-- Issue #18764: remove the 'print' alias for the PDB 'p' command so that it no
+- Issue #18764: Remove the 'print' alias for the PDB 'p' command so that it no
   longer shadows the print function.
 
-- Issue #19158:  a rare race in BoundedSemaphore could allow .release() too
+- Issue #19158: A rare race in BoundedSemaphore could allow .release() too
   often.
 
 - Issue #15805: Add contextlib.redirect_stdout().