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Keisha Lance Bottoms makes history as Georgia’s first Black woman governor
Bottoms, a former adviser to ex-President Joe Biden, beat Republican Rick Jackson.
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Georgia elects the nation's first Black female governor
Keisha Lance Bottoms' win marks the first time Georgia has elected a Democratic governor in more than 20 years.
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Chris Pappas to become first openly gay male US senator
Democratic Representative Chris Pappas won election on Tuesday to the US Senate and will become the first openly gay man to serve in the upper chamber of Congress.
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Roy Cooper wins Senate race in North Carolina, flipping seat for Democrats
State’s ex-governor bests Michael Whatley, ex-chair of Republican National Committee, by focusing on lower costs
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Fight over pro-Palestinian group ban heads to UK's highest court
A legal battle over a ban on Palestine Action activists resumes Wednesday as co-founder Huda Ammori takes her fight against the government's designation of the group as a terrorist organisation to Britain's…
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Uber pays its drivers ‘wages’ and is liable for $81m payroll tax bill, Australia’s high court rules
Rideshare company unsuccessfully argued it didn’t employ workers and claimed money paid was not wages under NSW law
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Miliband says slavery apology will not bring cost for UK taxpayers
Speaking to BBC's Newscast, the foreign secretary says Britain cannot sweep its past "under the carpet".
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Killer who escaped Tennessee prison captured after week-long manhunt
Jacob Allen Morley was serving a life sentence for murder before he escaped over a prison fence.
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Republican Byron Donalds wins governor's race in Florida
Donalds, who was backed early by President Trump, will become the state's first Black governor.
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Israel president opens talks as rivals struggle to form government
Israel's president begins deliberations on Wednesday on whom to task to form a government, with neither veteran Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu nor rival Gadi Eisenkot holding enough seats after a…
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North Korea signals little appetite for renewed US dialogue
The powerful sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un signalled little appetite for renewed dialogue with Washington, saying Pyongyang had "no need to sit face to face with such unreliable and hostile…
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Republican Ashley Moody defeats progressive Angie Nixon in Florida Senate race
Moody is elected over Nixon in a contest seen as a measure of whether the state remains reliably Republican
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