Democrat Scott Colom won election to the U.S. Senate representing Mississippi, defeating Republican incumbent Cindy Hyde-Smith on Wednesday. Colom will be Mississippi’s first Black senator since the post-Civil War Reconstruction era.
Gearing up for the loss of GOP control in Congress next year, the White House warned Democrats that planned investigations of Trump could cross into criminal conduct. House Democrats are preparing a vast oversight agenda to look at how Trump and his family have become wealthier since he returned to office, though Trump and his administration have long denied any wrongdoing.
President Donald Trump, meanwhile, observed Veterans Day at Arlington National Cemetery. His appearance there came a day after nine Kennedy family members asked a judge to block Trump’s plan to build a towering memorial arch, saying the 250-foot structure would cast a shadow over their relatives’ grave sites at the cemetery.