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  "id": 19657671,
  "title": "First Thing: Mississippi turns blue as Scott Colom unseats Republican Senate incumbent",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/12/first-thing-mississippi-turns-blue-as-scott-colom-unseats-republican",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-11-12T13:38:57.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Guardian US",
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    "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/nov/12/first-thing-mississippi-turns-blue-scott-colom-democrat-senate"
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  "summary": "Defeating Cindy Hyde-Smith makes the 43-year-old district attorney the first Black Mississippi senator elected since Reconstruction. Plus, the South Korean scarf vendor who has gone viral for telling people not to buy Good morning. In a stunning upset after more than a week of vote counting in one of the country’s most reliably red states, the Democrat Scott Colom has defeated Cindy Hyde-Smith ,…",
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        "outlet": "Channel News Asia",
        "title": "Democrat Colom wins Mississippi Senate seat, becomes state's first Black senator since 1874",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/12/democrat-colom-wins-mississippi-senate-seat-becomes-states-first",
        "published": "2026-11-12T00:11:29.000Z"
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        "outlet": "Winnipeg Free Press",
        "title": "Mississippi State QB Kamario Taylor commits to return to the Bulldogs in 2027",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/12/mississippi-state-qb-kamario-taylor-commits-to-return-to-the-bulldogs",
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        "title": "Democrat Scott Colom seals historic win in Mississippi Senate race",
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        "title": "Democrat Scott Colom seals historic win in Mississippi Senate race",
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        "published": "2026-11-12T04:00:30.000Z"
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        "outlet": "People Daily Kenya",
        "title": "Democrat Scott Colom seals historic win in Mississippi Senate race",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/12/democrat-scott-colom-seals-historic-win-in-mississippi-senate-race-19600286",
        "published": "2026-11-12T04:39:14.000Z"
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        "outlet": "Daily Post Nigeria",
        "title": "Scott Colom unseats Mississippi Senator Hyde-Smith in historic win",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/12/scott-colom-unseats-mississippi-senator-hyde-smith-in-historic-win",
        "published": "2026-11-12T05:38:47.000Z"
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      {
        "outlet": "ABC News (US)",
        "title": "WATCH: How Mississippi Sen.-elect Scott Colom's win is 145 years in the making",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/12/watch-how-mississippi-sen-elect-scott-coloms-win-is-145-years-in-the",
        "published": "2026-11-12T06:50:48.000Z"
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      {
        "outlet": "NPR",
        "title": "How Scott Colom defied the odds to go from district attorney to Mississippi's Democratic US Senator",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/12/how-scott-colom-defied-the-odds-to-go-from-district-attorney-to",
        "published": "2026-11-12T10:00:00.000Z"
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      {
        "outlet": "CNBC",
        "title": "U.S. Senate race in Mississippi",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/12/u-s-senate-race-in-mississippi",
        "published": "2026-11-12T10:02:58.000Z"
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