Mississippi Republican Sen.Cindy Hyde-Smith attended a segregation academy in high school and praised a Confederate soldier’s attempts to “defend his homeland,” according to reports.
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Black Friday gun checks down 10 percent after 2017 broke records
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‘I was angry and I sent it’: Another Kavanaugh accuser referred to FBI after recanting
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