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Port also succeeds in seizing tanker, Atlantic Asphalt, to recoup damages after it crashes into cruise ship
Scott Colom tells the BBC his party can build on his historic election win - and appeal to frustrated Republicans - by focusing on policies to help all Americans.
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New Orleans Mayor Helena Moreno praised the emergency response efforts in the wake of the collision of a tanker and river cruise ship on Friday afternoon. Moreno said all passengers on the cruise have been accounted for.
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Sen.-elect Scott Colom (D) defeated Republican incumbent Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith to become Mississippi’s first Black senator since Reconstruction. His campaign’s breakout star? Russ Hudson, whose drawn-out “shiiiiiii” in a campaign ad went viral. CNN’s David Wright interviewed Hudson. Ad creator Ryan Sayles also shared his perspective on how a backyard shoot became a political-ad sensation in CNN’s The Arena with Kasie Hunt.
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Rescue efforts under way as ship takes on water; governor confirms incident in Mississippi River
All cruise ship passengers and crew were recovered, though 32 people were left with non-serious injuries from Friday's collision.
American Heritage paddleboat with 129 passengers on board is partially submerged on Mississippi River in New Orleans.
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The collision leaves 32 people in hospital with non-critical injuries, but no-one unaccounted for.
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Scott Colom elected as the state’s first black senator since the 19th century
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CNN’s Annie Grayer reports from a Tougaloo College, a historically Black college in Jackson, Mississippi, where voters celebrated Scott Colom’s US Senate victory. Colom is the first Black person elected to statewide office in Mississippi since the Reconstruction era.
Colom adds to blue wave of Democrat victories across the US and becomes Mississippi’s first black senator since 1875 after defeating Cindy Hyde-Smith
The Democratic candidate won in a southern state that had not seated a black senator since 1874.
In a state that hasn't had a Democrat in office since 1980 and hasn't sent a Black senator to Washington since the 1870s, Colom's win represents a massive upset in state politics.
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The last Black candidate elected to the Senate in Mississippi was former slave Blanche Bruce in 1874.
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Mississippi has elected Democrat Scott Colom in a historic race in the traditionally deep-red state, making him its first Black senator since shortly after the US civil war. How did Colom’s grassroots campaign win despite limited early backing from national Democrats? Lucy Hough speaks to politics and democracy reporter George Chidi
Democrat chatted up people at hair salons, colleges and at Trump rallies to become Mississippi’s first Black senator since Reconstruction