- 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.
If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed. -- Benjamin Franklin
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