{
  "id": 19651992,
  "title": "Mississippi elects Democrat Scott Colom as state’s first Black US senator since Civil War",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/12/mississippi-elects-democrat-scott-colom-as-states-first-black-us",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-11-12T12:06:31.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Gulf News",
    "slug": "gulf-news",
    "url": "https://gulfnews.com/world/americas/mississippi-elects-democrat-scott-colom-as-states-first-black-us-senator-since-civil-war-1.500745017"
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  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Jackson: Democratic nominee Scott Colom defeated Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith on Wednesday in Mississippi’s closely contested US Senate race after a prolonged ballot counting process, giving the state its first Black US senator since post-Civil War Reconstruction. Colom’s narrow victory is a seismic shift in Mississippi, which has been controlled mostly by white conservatives for generations…",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}