Colom wins Mississippi Senate race. And, White House warns Dems over future probes
NPR's Up First reports that Democrat Scott Colom has won Mississippi's U.S. Senate seat, defeating Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith by a few thousand votes to become the state's first Black senator in nearly 150 years, while the White House warns in a letter from counsel Will Scharf that Democrats' planned investigations could become 'blatant criminality.' The newsletter also covers a Russia-Ukraine prisoner swap and Kushner-Witkoff talks in Moscow, Abdul El-Sayed as the first Muslim senator, record new-vehicle prices of $51,109, Stacy Keach's death at 85, Novaya Gazeta's closure, and Senegalese breakdancers.
