Scott Colom unseats Mississippi Senator Hyde-Smith in historic win

Scott Colom has won the closely contested Mississippi Senate race, ousting Republican Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith, in a major victory for Democrats in the ruby-red US state. Colom emerged as the winner on Wednesday, following an extended vote count, and will be Mississippi's first Black US senator since the post-Civil War Reconstruction. Hyde-Smith conceded in a […] Scott Colom unseats Mississippi…