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But no US sports league can match the sustained commitment and sense of urgency around societal issues more than the WNBA, who were throwing their support behind causes ranging from sexual assault prevention to Planned Parenthood to educational support for LGBTQ+ youth at a time when top athletes in other organizations mostly adhered to the prevailing “Republicans buy sneakers, too” apoliticism of the day. The latest chapter and most visible triumph in that lengthy history came early Wednesday morning when Raphael Warnock won a runoff election to unseat Georgia senator Kelly Loeffler, the...

Georgia please vote for sanity, competence, experience, grit, prosperity, justice, equality. Vote for American & Georgian values. Please keep your vote honest.

BBC News Published media captionIf confirmed, Mr Warnock will be the first black senator for the state of Georgia Rev Raphael Warnock - pastor for 15 years of a church that was at the spiritual heart of the civil rights movement - looks set to make history as the first black senator of the former confederate state of Georgia. He also becomes only the 11th black senator in US history. In a speech streamed online as he moved ahead of his Republican rival, he said his "roots are planted deeply in Georgia's soil"; one of seven southern states that fought for slavery during the US Civil War.

Donald Trump has pre-emptively declared two upcoming races in Georgia, which will determine control of the US Senate, to be "illegal and invalid". The US president's extraordinary intervention came shortly before he was due to travel to Georgia in a high-profile effort to encourage supporters to go to the polls on Tuesday. Senior Republicans feared his comments could undermine turnout by spreading fears of voter fraud, potentially gifting the Senate to Democrats. Like Mr Trump, Joe Biden is due to hold a rally in Georgia tomorrow. In a lengthy Twitter post, Mr Trump said the voting system in...

All eyes are on Georgia as the traditionally Republican state could hand Joe Biden the US Senate.