Colom Wins Mississippi Senate Seat, First Black Senator Since Reconstruction

This is the morning edition of the One News Page Global Briefing, for Friday, the thirteenth of November, twenty twenty-six. Here is what matters now.

Democrat Scott Colom has won Mississippi's U S Senate race, defeating incumbent Republican Cindy Hyde-Smith, according to race calls made eight days after the midterm election. The victory makes Colom the first Black senator elected from Mississippi in more than one hundred and forty years, and the first Democrat elected to the Senate from the state since one thousand nine hundred and eighty-two. The win delivers Democrats an eighth flipped Senate seat. Colom's supporters gathered at Tougaloo College to celebrate, dancing and weeping over a result that had remained unsettled for days after the election.

In Spain, millions of workers walked off the job on Wednesday in the country's first general strike in fourteen years, disrupting public transport and industry. The strike was called to demand government action on soaring housing costs and stagnant wages, issues now central to the campaign less than three weeks before parliamentary elections on November twenty-nine. The walkout was largely peaceful during the day, but violence erupted in Barcelona after a peaceful march against housing costs, with burning barricades and clashes with riot police spreading through the city centre. Riot police also clashed with masked protesters in Madrid. More than seventy people were arrested, and unions and employers gave opposing verdicts on the strike's impact. Opposition politicians accused Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez of encouraging the strike for political gain ahead of the vote.

On Capitol Hill, Maryland Senator Chris Van Hollen announced on Thursday that he will challenge Chuck Schumer for Senate majority leader when Democrats regain the chamber's majority in January. Van Hollen, a progressive with support from some of the party's more vocal left-wing members, is the first to openly challenge Schumer's long-held leadership. Van Hollen said voters sent a clear message in the midterm elections. "The American people called for change," he said, adding that the party needs "new leadership." Schumer has said he has the votes to win the leadership contest.

In Gaza, an Israeli airstrike on Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis early Thursday killed at least six people, including a surgeon, and wounded at least twenty others, according to Gaza health authorities and the civil defence agency. The strike hit the hospital's surgery department and caused extensive damage. It was the first Israeli air strike on a Gaza hospital since the ceasefire began last year, and the deadliest single strike since Israel's elections last month. Israel said it was targeting a Hamas commander and other militants. A witness said a surgeon, an official and a disabled patient were among the victims.

At the Pentagon, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Thursday presented a Joint Service Commendation Medal to Specialist Thomas Iglesias, the Army sentinel who loudly reprimanded Hegseth and his guests at Arlington National Cemetery a day earlier. The incident occurred during a Veterans Day ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, where the sentinel told the group to maintain "silence and respect" after some were heard laughing and taking photographs. The scolding drew renewed attention to Hegseth, who had survived an impeachment attempt the day before. Iglesias was summoned to the Pentagon, where he received the award for the execution of his duties.

In New York, a three-story residential building in Brooklyn's Flatbush neighbourhood collapsed into an adjacent construction site on Wednesday afternoon, killing at least eight people, including two children, and injuring at least eighteen others. Rescue crews worked through the night in what Mayor Zohran Mamdani called "extremely dangerous conditions," pulling victims and at least one survivor from the rubble. Officials ended rescue operations on Thursday and said there were no more victims inside. The cause of the collapse remains under investigation.

In South Carolina, the father of an eleven-month-old boy found buried alive in a dog crate has been charged with attempted murder, police said. The infant, Koah Sharpe, was discovered on Tuesday in a shallow grave in the woods near his father's home, wrapped in a towel inside the crate, after being buried for about twenty-four hours. Authorities said the boy was in the care of his grandmother, who left him with her son, Michael Comer, to run an errand. Rescuers found the child crying and covered in dirt; he was taken to hospital and described as clinging to life. His grandfather, John Comer, said the boy stopped crying soon after being found.

In Kansas, State Senator Cindy Holscher has won the governor's race, holding the office for Democrats. Holscher defeated Ty Masterson, the Republican president of the state Senate, who had President Trump's endorsement and benefited from a flood of Republican money. Holscher promised to halt new data centers. Kansas is reliably Republican in presidential elections, but its voters often break for Democrats in midterms.

In the technology sector, Nvidia C E O Jensen Huang has resigned after admitting an extramarital affair with a woman the U S says is a Chinese spy, a tactic known as a honey trap. His departure has sent shockwaves through the A I industry, and he is expected to testify before Congress within the next fortnight amid calls for a crackdown on China chip exports. Analysts say Nvidia's board will search for a successor with the technological know-how to lead the world's leading chip manufacturer.

In football, Manchester United have sacked head coach Michael Carrick after a run of one win in eleven matches left the club eighteenth in the Premier League, inside the relegation zone. He led the team to three wins across all competitions. The club paid tribute to Carrick as a "legend" but said the change was "necessary." Mauricio Pochettino, the U S A head coach, has a framework agreement to take over and is poised to return to the Premier League.

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