Democrat Scott Colom has pulled off a historic upset in Mississippi, defeating Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith and becoming the state’s first Black U.S. senator since Reconstruction. The 43-year-old district attorney’s victory, projected Wednesday, Nov. 11, gives Democrats their eighth Senate pickup in an extraordinary midterm election cycle that has redirected control of Congress. “Throughout this [...]

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