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The Georgia Senate race was one of the first election results, with Jon Ossoff heading back for another six years in the US Senate, data centers became a decisive issue for New York voters, Massachusetts approves Question 4 to enact Election Day voter registration.

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The Public News Service Daily Newscast for November the 4th, 2026.

I'm Mark Clifford.

The first election call came in before 8 p.m. Eastern Time.

MSNOW and the AP called the race for the Georgia Senate race.

Incumbent John Ossoff wins and will serve another six years in the U.S. Senate.

Next up, Democrats won four governor's races in Illinois, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Massachusetts.

The train continued with Rory Cooper, the first Democrat, to flip a Senate seat in North Carolina and the GOP scored a win with the governor's race in Florida.

Meantime, in post-election analysis, data centers stand out as a key issue for New Yorkers.

Polls find most New Yorkers don't support them and stand by Governor Kathy Hochul's data center moratorium.

They were a focal point in several congressional races in the governor's race due to criticisms about their environmental impacts, but proponents argue they create jobs and economic development.

Rob Hayes with Environmental Advocates New York says data center developers' lack of transparency can harm communities.

That means there's not a fully public process to let local governments and local communities grapple with and evaluate what the impacts of these data center developments might be.

While Governor Kathy Hochul supports regulating data centers, Republican gubernatorial candidate Bruce Blakeman vowed to repeal the moratorium.

He pointed to his work in Nassau County, where data centers are required to have water circulation systems.

Hochul has also expressed concerns about data centers raising utility costs while Blakeman blames clean energy projects and curtailing of fossil fuels for higher energy prices.

I'm Edwin J. Viera.

And after more than a decade of advocacy, voting rights groups in Massachusetts are celebrating the passage of Question 4, which allows for same-day voter registration or registration updates.

Beginning in January 2028, residents can bring a valid photo ID or other documentation proving residency, including a utility bill or banking statement.

Marisol Santiago with the civic group MassVote says the policy benefits working class families and students who frequently move.

This just says, hey, there's a place for you here.

You can register and vote at your polling location.

I think it's going to benefit tons of folks and in particular renters.

Opponents include the Massachusetts Republican Party say it will create a logistical nightmare for poll workers and threaten election integrity.

Before we sign off, a couple more election results were decided by our filing deadline.

Democrat Keisha Lance Bottoms has won the Georgia's race for governor.

NBC News projects defeating Republican Rick Jackson and flipping control of the Battleground State Office for the first time in 24 years.

In New Jersey, Democratic incumbent Cory Booker defeated Republican Justin Murphy.

Booker is the former mayor of Newark.

And with just over half the votes in, Democrat James Tallarico leads the Senate race in Texas.

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The Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians recently received more than $60 million in federal grant money to help build a workforce training center and industrial park on tribal land.

The training center is expected to be operational in early 2027.

The tribe's Hayden Nicky says it will allow them to expand on the workforce development and training they're already offering.

Overall, we're just trying to help increase employment in the county and the state.

We're looking to bring in people who are interested in working with the tribe, whether that's the soft skills or hard skill jobs.

They'll train people for trade jobs such as electrical work, heating, air conditioning, and refrigeration.

The center will include spaces for classrooms, computer labs, and offices.

I'm Freda Ross reporting.

Similar projects completed by the tribe in 2022 contributed more than $1 million to Mississippi's economy.

Next, more than 130 million Americans provide care to a family member or loved one.

Half of them experience financial strain because of it.

Cassenda Nelson's daughter was diagnosed with diabetes during COVID.

She now also has epileptic seizures and takes mental health medication.

Nelson's day starts with a medication routine followed by appointments, work, and the constant logistics of managing her daughter's care.

She's a community health worker, a breast cancer educator, and a doula.

After the midterms, she wants elected leaders to understand what families like hers actually need by hearing from the people living it.

The unknowing in the beginning put me in a state of depression for myself, So I was not able to proactively get to work and do the things that I needed to do, along with navigating her care and dealing with my own personal mental health.

Nelson lives in Camilla, Georgia, and says the care her daughter needs isn't available nearby.

I'm Tramiel Gomes.

Exit an attorney for an Indiana man who is facing execution by lethal injection tomorrow believes the procedure should be paused.

The company provides pentobarbital, the drug used in Indiana's lethal injections.

Attorney Joe Perkovich with the nonprofit Phillips Black Incorporated is representing Jeffrey Weishite, who is scheduled to die.

He says compromised drugs can set the stage for a botched execution and suspects the pharmacy is turning a massive profit while obtaining unauthorized products.

So there's the distributor who gets the drugs to the pharmacy.

The manufacturers of these medicines do not sell to this pharmacy.

They've not released their product to distributors who deal with this pharmacy.

So somebody on the gray market has gotten these drugs illegally and then pulled them to this pharmacy.

I'm Terry Dee reporting.

This is Mike Clifford for Public News Service.

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