Mississippi drops Confederate-themed flag with new bill

JACKSON, Miss. — With a stroke of the governor’s pen, Mississippi is retiring the last state flag in the US with the Confederate battle emblem — a symbol that’s widely condemned as racist. Republican Gov. Tate Reeves on Tuesday signed the historic bill that takes the 126-year-old state flag out of law, immediately removing official...

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