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06/11/2026

In 1860, an enslaved man named Sheppard Peek was listed as property in the will of a Georgia plantation owner. His assigned value was $1,400.

On November 3, 2026, his great-great-granddaughter was elected governor of Georgia.

Her name is Keisha Lance Bottoms.

She became the first Black woman ever elected governor of an American state, making history in the very place where her ancestors had once been enslaved.

But the most moving moment came the day before the election.

Bottoms traveled to Crawfordville, a small Georgia town about 90 miles east of Atlanta, where her family history can be traced back at least five generations.

Her great-great-grandparents, Sheppard and Betsy Peek, had lived there under slavery.

Surviving documents from 1860 list Sheppard among the possessions of William Peek. Another record bears an X where Sheppard signed his name, a reminder of the educational barriers imposed on enslaved people.

Betsy, born in 1845, lived through slavery and emancipation. Her descendants would eventually leave rural Georgia for Atlanta, traveling by horse and buggy in search of opportunity.

Generations later, their descendant became a lawyer, judge, Atlanta city councilwoman, and mayor.

Then she ran for governor.

On November 2, Bottoms returned to Crawfordville and visited the cemetery where Betsy is buried among unmarked graves.

She knelt at her great-great-grandmother’s resting place and cried.

The next evening, Georgia voters elected her to the state’s highest office.

In her victory speech, Bottoms remembered Betsy and acknowledged that she could never know what dreams her ancestor had held for the generations who would follow.

But she knew whose sacrifices had made her own life possible.

The contrast is almost impossible to comprehend.

In 1860, Georgia law allowed a white man to assign a monetary value to Sheppard Peek.

In 2026, his descendant was chosen by voters to lead the state.

Betsy never lived to see that day. Neither did the generations who carried the family forward through emancipation, segregation, and the struggle for equal rights.

But their names are now part of the history of Georgia’s first Black woman governor.

06/11/2026

06/11/2026

For nearly two decades, Sen. Elizabeth Warren has needled and probed Wall Street at every turn.

She has called the private-equity industry legal “looting” and written a bill that could make it easier to jail executives. She has called for criminal probes into banking executives for failing to catch blowups. She has sought to delay the biggest IPO of all time, SpaceX, and raised questions about Anthropic’s existential risks to humanity. She has pledged to look into bankers’ ties to Jeffrey Epstein and dealings with the Trump administration.

Now, the Massachusetts Democrat is about to take the controls of the powerful Senate Banking Committee, giving her the kind of expansive authority over the financial industry she has long sought—and Wall Street has feared.

With her characteristic gusto and new subpoena powers, Warren is expected to usher in an era of heightened oversight and investigations into the likes of JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, Wall Street moneymen and the new generation of trading technologies from crypto to prediction markets.

🔗 Read more: https://on.wsj.com/4iE9BtJ

06/11/2026

BREAKING: Trump just announced that Stephen Miller is the new White House Chief of Staff, days after a midterm wipeout driven partly by his immigration crackdown

Trump just answered the biggest rebuke of his political life by giving more power to the man voters were rebuking.

On Friday, Trump announced on Truth Social that Stephen Miller, currently the Deputy Chief of Staff and, in his words, one of his most trusted advisors, will become Chief of Staff starting Monday, Nov. 9. Susie Wiles, who has held the job, will move over to the Trump Political Operation. Trump thanked her for her service and said she has done a great job.

Miller is the architect of Trump's aggressive immigration campaign. That crackdown cost Republicans their edge on the issue. Two U.S. citizens, Renee Good and Alex Pretti, were shot and killed by federal agents in Minneapolis. On Tuesday, counties that are 80 percent or more Hispanic favored Democrats by 40 points, and Republicans in Texas and Florida had been complaining privately to the White House for months.

It comes right after the Wall Street Journal reported that Trump had told aides Miller went too far, after Melania complained about her friends getting deported. Now Miller has the top job in the West Wing.

The timing is hard to miss. Republicans are blaming the Iran war and each other for the loss. Speaker Mike Johnson is out, the Justice Department is losing officials, and Democrats are preparing subpoenas. Trump's response is to shrink his circle and put his hardest-line adviser in charge of it.

Voters rejected the crackdown. Trump just put its architect in charge of the White House.

06/11/2026

Paraguay's President Santiago Peña has announced his resignation.

Find out why: https://bbc.in/4iWtqOd