Factbox: Women shatter many barriers in Congress, states in U.S. elections

From New Mexico's Debra Haaland, who became one of the first two indigenous women elected to the U.S. Congress to New York's Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who at 29 became the youngest woman elected to the chamber, American political candidate notched several precedents in this week's elections.

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