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FILE - In this May 29, 2013 file photo, Nevada Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto talks to media at the Legislative Building in Carson City, Nev. Masto announced Wednesday, April 8, 2015, that she will run for Harry Reid's Senate seat in 2016. She says she left her new job as the executive vice chancellor for the Nevada System of Higher Education on Tuesday to launch her campaign. (AP Photo/Kevin Clifford, File)

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Catherine Cortez Masto takes Senate seat as first Latina, Nevada woman

LAS VEGAS — Catherine Cortez Masto has been sworn in to the U.S. Senate, becoming Nevada’s first female in the upper chamber of Congress and the nation’s first Latina senator.

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• January 3, 2017