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A stack of mail-in ballots are seen at the Anchorage Region II Elections Office, Thursday, Nov. 5, 2026, in Anchorage, Alaska. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)

More than a dozen key races remain too early to call one week after Election Day

By Camille Baker - Associated Press

Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate Scott Colom speaks during a news conference, Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2026, at the Hinds County Sheriff's Office in Jackson, Miss. (AP Photo/Ellen Schmidt)

Democrat wins Mississippi Senate seat in upset defeat of GOP incumbent Hyde-Smith

By George Caldwell - The Washington Times

Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate Scott Colom speaks during a news conference, Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2026, at the Hinds County Sheriff's Office in Jackson, Miss. (AP Photo/Ellen Schmidt)

Mississippi elects Democrat Scott Colom as state’s first Black U.S. senator since Reconstruction

By Bill Barrow and Sophie Bates - Associated Press

Bags of ballots are stored at the Hinds County Election Commission as the U.S. Senate race between Democratic candidate Scott Colom and incumbent Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith has not yet been called, Friday, Nov. 6, 2026, in Jackson, Miss. (AP Photo/Ellen Schmidt)

Mississippi Senate race winner still undetermined as ballot deadlines arrive

By Mary McCue Bell - The Washington Times

Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate Scott Colom, right, talks with owner Maati Jone Primm during a campaign stop at Marshall's Music and Book Store, which is recognized as the oldest Black-owned bookstore in the U.S., Friday, Nov. 6, 2026, in Jackson, Miss. (AP Photo/Ellen Schmidt)

Scott Colom and Black Mississippians stand on the cusp of Senate history

By Bill Barrow and Sophie Bates - Associated Press

Mississippi Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Scott Colom speaks to his supporters during his election watch party Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2026, in Jackson, Miss. (Eric Shelton/Mississippi Today via AP)

WATCH: Colom says lawyers will protect ‘integrity’ of election as counting continues in Mississippi

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Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith, R-Miss., talks before President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally at Crossroads Arena, in Corinth, Miss., Monday, Oct. 26, 2026. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Mississippi Senate candidates lawyer up in nail-biter election

By George Caldwell - The Washington Times

Mississippi Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Scott Colom speaks during a voting rights town hall at the historic Farish Street Baptist Church in Jackson, Miss., Saturday, Aug. 1, 2026. (AP Photo/Sarah Warnock) ** FILE **

Too close to call: Dozens of votes separate Mississippi GOP incumbent, Dem challenger so far

By Mary McCue Bell - The Washington Times

Fall leaves begin to surround the U.S. Capitol on Election Day, Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Allison Robbert)

Which Senate, governors races are still uncalled by The Associated Press

By Mike Catalini - Associated Press

President Donald Trump arrives to speak during a campaign rally at McMorran Place Sports and Entertainment Center, Sunday, Oct. 25, 2026, in Port Huron, Mich. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

Trump heads to Mississippi for a midterm rally, and the Democrat he wants defeated is going, too

By Bill Barrow and Sophie Bates - Associated Press

Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith, R-Miss., speaks during a hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, on May 2, 2024. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

Democrats spend to oust Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith in Mississippi

By Mary McCue Bell - The Washington Times

FILE - Steaks and other beef products are displayed for sale at a grocery store in McLean, Va., Jan. 18, 2010. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Midterm campaigns are asking, where’s the beef? And how much does it cost?

By Nicholas Riccardi - Associated Press

Mississippi Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Scott Colom speaks with Sen. Angela Alsobrooks, D-Md., before a campaign event at the Capital Club in Jackson, Miss., Saturday, Aug. 1, 2026. (AP Photo/Sarah Warnock)

Will Mississippi send a Black Democrat to the U.S. Senate? Scott Colom says don’t count him out

By Bill Barrow - Associated Press

Mississippi DA releases case files in fatal police shooting

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FILE - In this Sept. 9, 2016, file photo, former Columbus Police officer Canyon Boykin, center, is led from the Lowndes County Courthouse in handcuffs while people applaud in Columbus, Miss. The Mississippi attorney general said Thursday, May 28, 2020, that a manslaughter charge will be dropped against Boykin in the October 2015 shooting death of an African American man because her office reviewed the case and concluded the officer acted in self-defense. (Luisa Porter/The Commercial Dispatch via AP, File)

DA: Bad time to drop charge of ex-cop in black man’s death

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DA looks at new evidence in killing of gas station clerk

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2 more men plead guilty in 2014 beating outside restaurant

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