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Colom beat Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith by fewer than 5,000 votes, making him the first Democrat Mississippi has sent to the Senate in more than 40 years and its first Black senator since Reconstruction. He ran door to door on rural hospitals, health care and affordability, and flipped Trump-leaning counties like Forrest.

C++26's ISO ballot came back Disapproved. Only 12 of 20 voting P-members were in favor, short of the two-thirds required; 9 of 22 national bodies voted no, over the one-quarter limit; and 12 more abstained. The fight is over Contracts (pre/post conditions and contract_assert), which opponents used the national-body vote to block as a last resort.

Guido van Rossum announced that Tim Peters died on July 15. Peters wrote the Zen of Python and Timsort (later adopted by Java and Android) and was the patient "Timbot" of the early Python mailing lists. Guido calls him a mentor and co-designer from the language's first years, starting with the argument for mixed int/float arithmetic.