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04:34⇢Mississippi's First Black Senator Since Reconstruction

Media attention returns to Democrat Scott Colom's Mississippi Senate win over Cindy Hyde-Smith, framed as historic as the state's first Black senator since Reconstruction (AP, Washington Post, ABC, CBS, Newsweek, Mother Jones, Daily Caller). Outlets cast it as a deep-red upset extending Democrats' post-midterm Senate gains. Scrutiny of Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's future amid affair and China-chip concerns continues (CNN, NBC, NYTimes, Epoch Times, HuffPost).
Mississippi has elected its first Black U.S. senator since post-Civil War Reconstruction and delivered Democrats a major upset in a rocky midterm election for the GOP.
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The New York Times reported Huang had a relationship with an Nvidia executive, days after news broke of his affair with a suspected Chinese spy.
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