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NBC News is projecting Democrat Scott Colom has won the Senate race in Mississippi. NBC News’ Ryan Nobles reports.

Rep. Greg Murphy (R-N.C.) conceded his reelection race on Wednesday to Democrat Raymond Smith, flipping another House seat for Democrats after a close contest in North Carolina’s 3rd Congressional District. Decision Desk HQ, a partner of The Hill, has yet to call the race, but as of Wednesday evening, Smith led Murphy by less than…

In our news wrap Wednesday, Democrat Scott Colom has defeated incumbent Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith in Mississippi, a group that included Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth was admonished by an Army sentinel at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and peace talks between Ukraine, Russia and the U.S. ended with an agreement to exchange prisoners, but no breakthrough on ending the war.

As Democrats prepare to take control of Congress, Delaware Sen. Chris Coons is poised to become chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, succeeding retiring Democrat Jeanne Shaheen. A staunch supporter of Ukraine and a critic of President Trump's war with Iran, Coons would take the helm at a consequential moment for American foreign policy. Coons joined Geoff Bennett to discuss more.

Mississippi hadn't elected a Democrat to the U.S. Senate in more than 40 years.

The southern US state of Mississippi has elected its first Black senator in more than 140 years. Democrat Scott Colom has won the seat in a historic upset, according to projections.

Democrat Scott Colom is set to become Mississippi’s next senator after Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith conceded Wednesday, notching a major victory for his party in the ruby red state. “While this is not the outcome we worked for or hoped for, I respect the decision of Mississippi voters,” she said in a video posted to…

Democrat chatted up people at hair salons, colleges and at Trump rallies to become Mississippi’s first Black senator since Reconstruction The ad is simple, less than half a minute long, but many say it was the moment the nation took notice of Mississippi ’s US Senate race. In it, the incumbent Republican senator Cindy Hyde-Smith, a cattle farmer, answers a reporter’s question about the rising price of beef : “You know, you have so many proteins to choose from,” she says. Continue reading...

Democrat Scott Colom unseated Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS) in one of the biggest upsets in the 2026 midterm elections. Colom led with 49.2% when the Associated Press called the race at 5:58 p.m. Eastern Time. Hyde-Smith came in behind the Mississippi Democrat at 48.7%. President Donald Trump won the state in 2024 with 60.9% of […]

Senate Republicans suffer another stunning setback as Cindy Hyde-Smith is projected to lose to Scott Colom in the reliably red Mississippi Senate race, according to AP.

Colom takes victory by razor-thin margin in state that hasn’t elected a Democrat to the Senate since 1982 Democrat Scott Colom pulled off one of the biggest upsets of the midterm elections when he defeated Cindy Hyde-Smith, the incumbent Republican senator, to become the first Black senator in Mississippi elected since 1875, after more than a week of vote counting in one of the country’s most reliably red states. Colom opened up a narrow lead over Hyde-Smith late on election night. His lead widened as election officials counted provisional ballots. Hyde-Smith was not able to close the gap. Continue reading...

Democrat Scott Colom is projected to win the hotly contested Mississippi Senate seat, a significant upset for Republican Cindy Hyde-Smith. With Colom's win, Democrats will have a 55-seat majority in the Senate. 

It marks a shock victory for the party in a deeply conservative state that has elected Republicans for decades.

Donald Trump won Mississippi by 22.9% in 2024.

Democrat Scott Colom has built on his lead in the closely watched Mississippi Senate race, now ahead of Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith (R) by nearly 4,500 votes, or about half a percentage point. The latest batch of votes came as heavily Democratic Hinds County wraps up counting its absentee and affidavit ballots. The county, which includes…

Mr. Colom, a prosecutor, will become the first Black senator elected from Mississippi since Reconstruction, more than 150 years ago.

Democrat Scott Colom defeated Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith in a stunning Mississippi upset , becoming the first Democrat elected to the state's Senate delegation since 1982, AP projects. Why it matters: Colom's victory marks another extraordinary breakthrough for Democrats in the Deep South, extending the historic blue wave that handed the party control of both chambers of Congress. Colom also becomes Mississippi's first Black senator since Reconstruction. Hiram Rhodes Revels became the nation's first Black senator in 1870. Mississippi's last Black senator, Blanche K. Bruce, served until 1881. Catch up quick: The race remained too close to call after Election Day, with Colom's victory expanding Democrats' 55–44 advantage over Republicans in the Senate. The big picture: Colom's victory followed a late surge of Democratic spending and organizing in a state Trump carried by 23 points in 2024. Hyde-Smith faced warning signs in the campaign's closing months, when Colom raised twice as much as the GOP senator despite her overall cash advantage. She was also outspent on TV advertising , with a flood of ads from left-leaning PACs and super PACs pushing support for Colom and attacking the senator for her vote not to release files related to the convicted human trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. Hyde-Smith's campaign also faced criticism over an interview she gave to WLOX-TV in Jackson, Mississippi, where she fumbled an answer about the price of beef, saying that Mississippians had "so many other proteins to choose from." Colom's campaign capitalized on her blunder, creating a viral campaign ad urging voters to "choose another senator." The GOP made a late push to help Hyde-Smith, including President Trump speaking at a rally for her in Alcorn County, where he won by 68% in 2024. But it wasn't enough. Hyde-Smith's term will end after eight years. She was appointed to the Senate in 2018 by then-Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant, and ran for a full term in 2020, where she bested her De

The historic victory delivers an eighth US Senate seat to Democrats after last week's pivotal midterm election.

Democrat Scott Colom has won election to the U.S. Senate in Mississippi, according to a race call by the Associated Press, defeating Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith.

With Gov. Maura Healey heading into her second term in Massachusetts, the Bay State has become one of the most expensive states to live in The post Democrat-Led Massachusetts 50% More Expensive to Live in than U.S. Average appeared first on Breitbart .

He’ll be the first Black senator from the state since the end of Reconstruction.

Following devastating Republican losses in the midterm elections, several Texas Democrat state lawmakers are trying to chip away at laws protecting unborn babies from being killed in abortions.  The post Texas Democrats Target State’s Pro-Life Protections with Several Abortion Bills appeared first on Breitbart .

Democrat Scott Colom defeated GOP Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith in the Mississippi Senate race, delivering Democrats an eighth flipped Senate seat after the dramatic race had been up in the air for days.

For the closing ad of his US Senate campaign, Democrat Scott Colom stood in the driveway of the house that once belonged to Medgar Evers, the civil rights leader who was assassinated by a white supremacist in 1963 while holding T-shirts that said “Jim Crow Must Go.” “He was killed for helping Mississippians vote,” said […]

The Democrat will become first Black senator from the state since the Reconstruction Era.

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 win is a boost to the Democratic Party as it seeks to gain a larger foothold in the South.

Scott Colom, a Democrat and prosecutor, is the first Black senator elected from Mississippi since the post-Civil War Reconstruction period.

Scott Colom has defeated Republican Sen.

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Democrats padded their US Senate majority with a surprise win by Scott Colom, a district attorney who ousted Mississippi Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith in a reliably Republican state that President Donald Trump won by more than 22 percentage points in 2024, CNN projected.

A Texas state senator has filed a bill to follow through on a promise by Gov.-elect Gina Hinojosa (D) to give one-time checks to all Texas households. State Sen. Roland Gutierrez (D) filed Senate Bill 297 Monday, which would deliver $1,500 checks to every Texas household, appropriating $17 billion from the state’s rainy day fund…

NBC News correspondent Priscilla Thompson joins Meet the Press NOW from Jackson, Mississippi to report on the remaining votes for the state's Senate race as Scott Colom (D) pulls further ahead of incumbent Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith (R) in the count.

US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, who is spearheading efforts to economically isolate Iran, was moved into temporary military housing after threats from the Islamic Republic.

NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with Max Kennedy, son of Robert Kennedy Sr., about the Kennedy family's lawsuit to halt the construction of President Trump's 250-foot arch near Arlington National Cemetery.

President Trump on Thursday authorized a crack down on companies suspected of diverting Nvidia's advanced AI chips to China for the third time this year — even consulting Elon Musk before giving the go-ahead. One administration official has repeatedly stood in the way: Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick. Why it matters: This standoff illustrates a breakdown in efforts to keep American technology out of China's hands as the world wonders why the Trump administration has not taken action against the company at the center of suspected chip smuggling — and an espionage scandal. This report was assembled from interviews with six high-level sources who were briefed on or, in some cases, heard the discussions. Inside the room: On Thursday, as the spy scandal rocked the administration, Lutnick met in the Situation Room with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer and National Security Adviser and Secretary of State Marco Rubio. During the meeting, Bessent confronted Lutnick about why his department has resisted implementing the export controls, particularly on Megaspeed, the company at the center of the spy scandal. The group sided with Bessent. Lutnick appeared to agree, but then muttered under his breath, "I need to check with the president." Friction point: Lutnick's seemingly innocuous comment raised concerns, the sources said, because officials have repeatedly believed the Commerce Department would impose the export controls, only to have nothing happen. "He's stalling it out," said one official, describing how Lutnick had previously met privately with the president to change his mind about the export limit. "This is an ongoing concern with Howard and this issue," said another. This time , one person in the room called his bluff by saying: "Great. Why don't we do it today?" Around 5pm, the group headed to the Oval Office. Trump called tech advisor Elon Musk and agreed to move forward. Musk supported Rubi

Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet (Colo.) is pressing intelligence and commerce leaders in the Trump administration on its investigation into the cloud computing and data center firm Megaspeed following reports the Commerce Department paused their investigation into the company last year. Bennet, in a letter sent Tuesday, asked the heads of the departments of Justice (DOJ),…

Rep. Stephen Lynch (D-Mass.) on Wednesday clapped back at the White House’s threat to investigate Democrats if they plan to probe President Trump and his administration, telling administration lawyers to “Come at me, bro.” “I just think we are so well situated to do our jobs. What they’re saying is: ‘Don’t do our jobs. Don’t…

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Rep.-elect Richard Ojeda (D-NC) wants the incoming Democratic-controlled Congress to impeach several of President Donald Trump‘s Cabinet members, including officials who have already left the administration. In a Wednesday interview with the Washington Examiner, Ojeda said lawmakers should pursue an aggressive accountability agenda against Trump administration officials in tandem with legislation aimed at lowering the […]

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is the latest U.S. official to be threatened or targeted by Iran, but he is far from the first.

Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) rebuked President Donald Trump for the second consecutive year for not bringing a delegation to the COP31 global climate summit the Democrat is attending in Antalya, Turkey. The outgoing governor, who is widely expected to launch a 2028 presidential bid, is framing his attendance as a way to amplify “more control […]

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Democrat Scott Colom defeated Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith in Mississippi’s closely contested Senate race, according to projections from The Associated Press and CNN, becoming the first Democrat elected to represent the state in the Senate since 1982 and the first black senator from Mississippi since Reconstruction. The race remained unsettled for more than a week ...

Sen.-elect Abdul El-Sayed is making President Trump an offer he hopes the commander-in-chief can’t refuse — put his name on the sweeping government health care plan meant to cover all Americans. “Donald, if you’re watching, we can put your name on it,” the Michigan Democrat said Tuesday during an appearance on CNN’s “The Source” with...