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Mississippi elects Democrat Scott Colom as state’s first Black US senator since Reconstruction
Democratic nominee Scott Colom has defeated Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith in Mississippi's closely contested U.S. Senate race.
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Alaska judge rules request by Peltola campaign for ballot data in Senate race ‘not reasonable’
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Firefighters dig through rubble after NYC building collapse kills 1 and traps people in wreckage
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Mississippi elects Democrat Scott Colom as state’s first Black US senator since Reconstruction
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Democratic nominee Scott Colom has defeated Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith in Mississippi’s closely contested U.S. Senate race after a prolonged ballot counting process, giving the state its first Black U.S. senator since post-Civil War Reconstruction. Colom’s narrow victory is a seismic shift in Mississippi, which has been controlled mostly by white […]
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Black University of Mississippi students wrestle with forgiveness in wake of racist gestures
Three Black University of Mississippi students who shared a now-viral Ring camera video of two white students making monkeylike sounds and gestures outside their front door say they received an apology from one woman. But the other only amplified her behavior, they said, divulging details of the rest of the encounter that weren’t captured on […]
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Europe’s Hera spacecraft begins close inspections of an asteroid rammed by NASA in a 2022 test
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