The Daily Populous

A Texas bar owner who is one of several currently suing Gov. Greg Abbott (R) over reimposed restrictions on bars organized a “Bar Lives Matter” concert and protest Sunday.

Tee Allen Parker, owner of The Machine Shed Bar & Grill in Kilgore, about two hours southeast of Dallas, hosted the gathering outside the bar Sunday.

A second protest is planned on the steps of the capitol in Austin Tuesday, according to KLTV, a local ABC affiliate. »

(AP) — With a stroke of the governor’s pen, Mississippi is retiring the last state flag in the U.S. with the Confederate battle emblem — a symbol that’s widely condemned as racist.

Mississippi has faced increasing pressure to change its flag since protests against racial injustice have focused attention on Confederate symbols in recent weeks.

Mississippi voters chose to keep the flag in a 2001 statewide election, with supporters saying they saw it as a symbol of Southern heritage. »

"The word traitor and the word treason in this country gets abused like crazy," he began.

And now there's going to be a line at his grave where they're going to have to throw cat litter down.

The U.S. and the Taliban struck a peace agreement in February, and the Taliban has not attacked any U.S. positions since that time. »

The strategy increases the focus on the Indo-Pacific region, with the Prime Minister warning that Australia needs to prepare for a post-COVID-19 world that is "poorer, more dangerous and more disorderly".

Australia will build a larger military that is focused on its immediate backyard, including new long-range anti-ship missiles, signalling a major shift in the nation's defence strategy.

"COVID-19 is changing the world around us, the world in which we live," he said. »