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• After 126 years, Mississippi legislators and Gov. Tate Reeves approved a bill to change the state's Confederate emblem flag, sending a new design to voters in November.
• France is shutting down the country's oldest nuclear power plant this week after a nine-year campaign to shutter the facility in the wake of Japan's 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster.
• As the US continues to post record new daily COVID-19 cases and the global death toll has reached 500,000 California Gov. Gavin Newsom is ordering bars in several counties to close.
• A new Russian referendum will allow Vladimir Putin to remain in power for another 16 years as the dictator prepares to sidestep term limits imposed years ago.
• Korean researchers are experimenting with a polymer that acts as a magnet for gold, potentially picking up the metal out of e-waste and greatly increasing the efficiency of recycling.