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First Two Latinas Are Elected to Virginia House of Delegates, Making History Two Latinas, Elizabeth Guzmán and Hala Ayala made history in Virginia; they are the first Hispanic women elected to the state's House of Delegates. The two women not only beat long-term incumbents, but flipped their districts from Republican to Democrat. Ayala’s opponent, Richard Anderson, ran unopposed in 2015, but while the Democrats did not even run a candidate against Anderson in the 51st District, Ayala beat Anderson by almost six percentage points and mobilized fourteen thousand voters to win. Similarly, Guzmán was able to increase turnout in Prince William by 72 percent and was able to win by a comfortable nine point margin. Guzmán, who is Peruvian-American, is a public administrator with a background in social work whose platform includes expanded preschool and family and health services, including mental health, and more accessibilty to these services in local schools. RELATED:...

Chris Hurst, Whose Girlfriend Died During a Live TV Shooting, Wins Virginia Delegate Seat The boyfriend of a  news reporter who was shot and killed on live TV in 2015  won a seat in Virginia’s House of Delegates Tuesday. Chris Hurst, a first-time politician and former news anchor, received 54.33 percent of the votes as of 11:52 p.m. Tuesday night,  according to the Virginia Department of Elections . The 30-year-old Democrat unseated Republican and three-time incumbent Joseph Yost in the race for the 12th District House of Delegates seat. In a February op-ed for The Daily Beast, Hurst announced he was leaving his job as a broadcast journalist to run for office. “In 2015, my girlfriend Alison Parker was executed on live TV,”  Hurst said  in the op-ed. “Now, I’m leaving my career at the station where she worked to fight for the causes she and I value the most.” Parker, 24, and  Adam Ward , 27, worked the early-morning shift an...

Travis Scott Jacques Webster, Jr.  (born April 30, 1992), better known by his  stage name   Travis Scott  (formerly stylized as  Travi$ Scott ), is an American rapper, singer, songwriter and record producer from  Houston, Texas . In 2012, Scott signed his first  major-label  deal with  Epic Records . In November of the same year, Scott signed a deal with  Kanye West 's  GOOD Music , to be a part of its production wing  Very GOOD Beats , after appearing on the label's 2012 compilation album  Cruel Summer . In April 2013, it was announced Scott signed a  record deal  with  T.I. 's  Grand Hustle  imprint. Scott's first full-length project, a  mixtape  titled  Owl Pharaoh , was  self-released  in May 2013. This was followed with a second mixtape, titled  Days Before Rodeo , in August 2014. Scott's debut studio album  Rodeo , was released in September 2015 and ...