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Democrat Scott Colom wins closely watched US Senate race in Mississippi

Live25 min ago

Newsrooms: 36
Last 3 hours: 45 reports
Momentum: New

Reports per hour, last 24 hours

How the coverage splits

34%40%26%

Against the past week

One of the ten biggest stories of the past week (number 9 of 4000).

Hegseth scolded by security at Tomb of the Unknown Soldier (shares Cindy Hyde-Smith and Mississippi)

File photo: Scott Colom

Democrats padded their US Senate majority with a surprise win by Scott Colom, a district attorney who ousted Mississippi Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith in a reliably Republican state that President Donald Trump won by more than 22 percentage points in 2024.

Al Jazeera didn’t include a summary, so this is Bloomberg’s, from its report on the same story.³

Background: Scott Colom

Scott Winston Colom is an American politician, lawyer, and jurist who is the United States senator-elect from Mississippi. A member of the Democratic Party, Colom has served since 2016 as district attorney for the 16th Judicial District of Mississippi.⁴

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The story so far

36 newsroomsRising

Reports: 46
Newsrooms and sources: 36
Last 3 hours: 45
Last 24 hours

Rising: more reports in the last three hours than the three before (45 in the last three hours, 0 in the three before).

First with it: The Daily Wire, 3 hr 47 min before anyone else.

Reported by 36 newsrooms.

Counted as one newsroom each, because they ran the same copy: The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, Brisbane Times, WAtoday (all Nine); The Straits Times and CNA (the same headline).

Time	Newsroom	Total
5:20am AEDT	The Daily Wire	1
9:08am AEDT	Bloomberg	2
9:17am AEDT	Newsweek	3
9:37am AEDT	The New Republic	4
9:40am AEDT	Deadline	5
9:59am AEDT	NBC News	6
10:01am AEDT	Politico	7
10:01am AEDT	PBS News	8
10:02am AEDT	The Washington Times	9
10:04am AEDT	CBS News	10
10:04am AEDT	The Washington Post	11
10:04am AEDT	NPR	12
10:05am AEDT	Al Jazeera	13
10:05am AEDT	Axios	14
10:06am AEDT	The Hill	15
10:07am AEDT	New York Post	16
10:07am AEDT	The Post Millennial	17
10:08am AEDT	The Sydney Morning Herald	18
10:09am AEDT	BBC News	19
10:09am AEDT	The Globe and Mail	20
10:10am AEDT	The Guardian	21
10:11am AEDT	Washington Examiner	22
10:17am AEDT	Time	23
10:22am AEDT	Le Monde	24
10:26am AEDT	The Times of India	25
10:27am AEDT	Just the News	26
10:31am AEDT	CNBC	27
10:33am AEDT	DW	28
10:38am AEDT	NewsNation	29
10:47am AEDT	France 24	30
10:50am AEDT	Hindustan Times	31
10:55am AEDT	The Straits Times	32
10:59am AEDT	RedState	33
11:02am AEDT	South China Morning Post	34
11:07am AEDT	RNZ	35
11:24am AEDT	Financial Times	36

Time	Source	Total
5:20am AEDT	The Daily Wire	1
9:08am AEDT	Bloomberg	2
9:17am AEDT	Newsweek	3
9:37am AEDT	The New Republic	4
9:40am AEDT	Deadline	5
9:59am AEDT	NBC News	6
10:01am AEDT	Politico	7
10:01am AEDT	PBS News	8
10:02am AEDT	The Washington Times	9
10:04am AEDT	CBS News	10
10:04am AEDT	The Washington Post	11
10:04am AEDT	NPR	12
10:05am AEDT	Al Jazeera	13
10:05am AEDT	Axios	14
10:06am AEDT	The Hill	15
10:07am AEDT	New York Post	16
10:07am AEDT	The Post Millennial	17
10:08am AEDT	The Sydney Morning Herald	18
10:08am AEDT	The Age	19
10:08am AEDT	Brisbane Times	20
10:08am AEDT	WAtoday	21
10:09am AEDT	BBC News	22
10:09am AEDT	The Globe and Mail	23
10:10am AEDT	NBC News	24
10:10am AEDT	The Guardian	25
10:11am AEDT	Washington Examiner	26
10:17am AEDT	Time	27
10:18am AEDT	The Guardian	28
10:22am AEDT	Le Monde	29
10:26am AEDT	The Hill	30
10:26am AEDT	The Times of India	31
10:27am AEDT	Just the News	32
10:28am AEDT	The Washington Times	33
10:31am AEDT	CNBC	34
10:33am AEDT	DW	35
10:33am AEDT	NPR	36
10:38am AEDT	NewsNation	37
10:47am AEDT	France 24	38
10:50am AEDT	Hindustan Times	39
10:55am AEDT	The Straits Times	40
10:59am AEDT	RedState	41
11:02am AEDT	South China Morning Post	42
11:07am AEDT	RNZ	43
11:11am AEDT	CNA	44
11:14am AEDT	The Straits Times	45
11:24am AEDT	Financial Times	46

Democrat Scott Colom wins closely watched US Senate race in Mississippi

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Democrat Scott Colom wins closely watched US Senate race in Mississippi

Background: Scott Colom

Where the coverage is from

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Two headlines

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How the coverage changed

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