NAACP Sends Staff To Mississippi Amid Tight Senate Race
A live-updates politics page leads with the NAACP deploying legal, policy, and field staff to Mississippi's tight Senate race, where Democrat Scott Colom, who would be the state's first Black senator since Reconstruction, leads GOP incumbent Cindy Hyde-Smith by just over 1,800 votes, per the AP, and NAACP President Derrick Johnson says every vote must be counted. Elsewhere: Trump met a Russian envoy but not Ukraine's delegation; Hegseth faces impeachment articles after the unpopular Iran war; a postal employee shot three people in Des Moines; infant bleeding rates rose with vitamin K refusals; Salon is shutting down; Newsom commuted 548 death sentences; and Nithya Raman unseated Karen Bass as LA mayor.
