Scott Colom has won the U.S. Senate election in Mississippi, defeating Republican Cindy Hyde-Smith, CNN projects.
He becomes the first Black person elected to the U.S. Senate from Mississippi since the Reconstruction era.
SCOOP: President Trump authorized a crackdown on companies suspected of diverting Nvidia's advanced AI chips to China on Thursday, but one administration official repeatedly stood in the way: Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick.