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Rev. Raphael Warnock became the first Black Georgian elected to the U.S Senate, and 33-year-old Jon Ossoff became the state’s first Jewish senator. LX News welcomed the founder of The John Lewis Bridge Project, Michael Starr Hopkins, to talk about the road the late Congressman John Lewis paved for their historic victories.

While election officials in Georgia were verifying signatures on absentee ballot envelopes in one metro-Atlanta county, President Donald Trump pressured a lead investigator to “find the fraud.”

Democratic control of the U.S. Senate has come one step closer to fruition after Georgia Republican David Perdue conceded his runoff loss to Democrat Jon Ossoff

Republican David Perdue conceded the Senate runoff race to Democrat Jon Ossoff on Friday. Sen. Kelly Loeffler, R-Ga., conceded to Rev. Raphael Warnock on Thursday.

Republican Sen. Kelly Loeffler has conceded to Democrat Raphael Warnock in one of two Georgia Senate runoffs that will give control of the U.S. Senate to Democrats.

What started as a day of celebration for Black organizers, voters and other Georgians who helped deliver two historic Senate runoff victories was overshadowed Wednesday when a mostly white mob of President Donald Trump’s supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol.

Democrats won both Georgia Senate seats — and with them, the U.S. Senate majority — as final votes were counted Wednesday, serving President Donald Trump a stunning defeat in his last days in office while dramatically improving the fate of President-elect Joe Biden’s progressive agenda. Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock, Democratic challengers who represented the diversity of their party’s...

As a teenager, Jon Ossoff was inspired by John Lewis’ pivotal role in the civil rights movement when Lewis was just in his early 20s.

Supporters of outgoing Republican President Donald Trump protest at statehouses across the U.S. on Wednesday.

President-elect Joe Biden has greater leeway to pass bold climate change legislation after Democrats clinched control of the U.S. Senate.

Jon Ossoff secured both a personal victory and an even bigger victory for the Democratic Party Wednesday as he was named the projected winner of his Georgia Senate runoff. Here are a few things to know about the incoming senator. Ossoff, 33, will be the youngest Democratic senator since Joe Biden in 1973. He will also become the state’s first…

Republican officials, donors and advisors blamed President Trump for the party’s poor showing in the Senate runoff elections in the once reliably red state of Georgia. “Trump f—-d the party,” a staunch Trump ally said. NBC News projected Democrats Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff as winners of the Georgia runoffs. Republican officials, donors and advisors, many of them behind...

Senate candidate Jon Ossoff posted a statement online declaring victory in his Senate runoff election against Sen. David Purdue in Georgia. NBC says Ossoff leads but that the race is still too close to call

Rev. Raphael Warnock won his Senate runoff race against incumbent Sen. Kelly Loeffler, R-Ga., NBC News projects. This makes Warnock Georgia’s first Black senator.

The man elected to be Georgia’s first Black senator calls his story one that could only happen in America.

“This is a lesson for the Republican Party of what’s likely to come if they continue to behave this way,” GOP pollster Frank Luntz told CNBC.

Democrat Jon Ossoff was leading Republican Sen. David Perdue in the other Senate runoff.

Both Senate runoff elections in Georgia are too close to call as Republicans and Democrats vie for control of the Senate.

With the projected election of Democrat Raphael Warnock to the U.S. Senate for Georgia, LGBTQ advocates are hopeful about the fate of a bill called the Equality Act that aims to protect its community against discrimination. Sarah Kate Ellis, GLAAD’s president and CEO, joined LX News to explain why Georgia’s U.S. Senate elections will decide the future of federal protections...

The 10-year U.S. Treasury yield topped the 1% mark, as traders eyed incoming results from the Georgia runoff elections.