Alexandra Hutzler

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Alexandra Hutzler is currently a staff writer on Newsweek's politics team. Prior to joining Newsweek in summer 2018, she was a crime and politics reporter for The Riverdale Press in the Bronx. She graduated from Manhattan College in 2018.
                                    
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Pence's Chief of Staff Cites Elaine Chao as Evidence Trump Isn't RacistAmong 23 cabinet-level jobs, only three are filled by racial or ethnic minorities including Chao, Housing Secretary Ben Carson and Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar.

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'It's All Bullsh*t': Trump Mocked for Claiming He Won Emoluments Case"He didn't 'win'," tweeted Tribe, "and he's still using the Oval Office to rob us blind and fill his coffers with piles of rubles that put him in debt to our adversaries."

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One Honduran Infant Spent Nearly Half His Life in U.S. CustodyThe Honduran boy was only eight months old when he arrived in the U.S. with his father in May 2018.

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Democrat Says Migrant Mother Asked Why She was Being Treated Like a Dog"She wanted to be treated like a human being," Pressley said.

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Bernie Sanders Joins Effort to Abolish Electoral CollegeIn 2016, Trump lost to Hillary Clinton in the popular vote by 2.8 million ballots, becoming the sixth Republican candidate to lose the popular vote since 1988.

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Why Is Alex Acosta Resigning? Trump Labor Secretary Out Amid Epstein SagaPresident Donald Trump announced Acosta's exit on Friday, insisting that it was his decision to leave the administration.

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Kamala Harris Wants to Spend $1 Billion Clearing 225,000 Untested Rape KitsKamala Harris is the first presidential candidate to release a plan to fix the nationwide backlog of untested rape kits

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Any Trump Action on Census Citizenship Question is 'Dead End,' Experts Say"Attempts to defy the courts never go well for America," Thomas Wolf, an attorney with the Brennan Center for Justice, told Newsweek.

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Man Who Shared False Tweet about Kamala Harris' Race Invited to WH SummitRight-wing media activist Ali Alexander tweeted that Kamala Harris was not black enough to talk about the struggles of black Americans.

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Legal Weed: Where the Pro-Cannabis Movement Stands in 2019To date, 11 states and the District of Columbia have legalized marijuana for adult recreational use.

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Anti-Endorsements: Bernie Sanders Touts Criticism from Big Businesses"I am proud to announce the modern-day oligarchs who oppose our movement," Bernie Sanders wrote as he released a list of anti-endorsements.

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Amy McGrath Raises $2.5 Million in 24 Hours of Senate Run Against McConnellMcGrath's campaign manager told NBC News that it's the most money ever raised in the first day of a Senate bid.

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Obamacare Case Could Throw Entire Health Care System Into 'Chaos': Experts"Virtually everyone in the United States would be impacted by this decision," said Tim Jost, a professor at the Washington and Lee University School of Law.

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Kellyanne Conway Argues Census Asks More 'Invasive' Things than Citizenship"Think of all the questions that nobody complains are included in our U.S. census every ten years that include a far, far, far smaller number of Americans," Conway said on Fox News.

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Women's Group Calls on Pelosi to Investigate Epstein Enablers like Trump"Speaker Pelosi can and should open a full investigation into why child sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein was protected over the survivors of his abuse," UltraViolet's executive director said in a statement.

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Electoral College Should be Abolished: Ex-Romney Strategist"Without an Electoral College, the Republican Party would be forced to grow or die," Stuart Stevens wrote in an op-ed for USA Today.

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Trump Fundraiser Being Investigated Over Foreign Business DealsAccording to the Associated Press, the U.S. Attorney's Office in Brooklyn sent a subpoena to Trump's inaugural committee seeking records connected with Elliott Broidy.

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Bernie Sanders Rebuffs Biden, Says He and AOC Have Agenda 'America Needs'"I'm proud to be working with @AOC and so many other Democrats to pass Medicare for All, debt free college and a Green New Deal," Sanders tweeted.

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Trump Blames Revolutionary War 'Airport' Gaffe on Teleprompter Malfunction"Actually, in the middle of that sentence, it went out," Trump told reporters on Friday, explaining his Revolutionary War airport blunder.

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Justin Amash Joins Growing List of Republicans Abandoning GOP in Trump Era"No matter your circumstance, I'm asking you to join me in rejecting the partisan loyalties and rhetoric that divide and dehumanize us," Amash wrote in an op-ed explaining his decision to leave the GOP.

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Biden Was Surprised by Harris Debate Attack: 'She Knew Beau, She Knows Me'"I wasn't prepared for the person coming at me the way she came at me," Biden said about his tense exchange with Senator Harris during the first Democratic primary debate.

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21 Undocumented Ex-Trump Staff Ask President to Spare Them from Deportation"We are modest people who represent the dreams of the 11 million undocumented men, women and children who live and work in this country," the group of ex-staff wrote in a letter to Trump.

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Fox News Talks About Socialism More Than MSNBC and CNN Combined"America will never be a socialist country," President Donald Trump said during his 2020 re-election kickoff last month.

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Border Patrol Agent Fires Back at Congress over Detention Center Criticism"They're the ones yelling the hardest that I'm not doing my job while at the same time keeping the resources I need to actually do my job," the agent said.

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'Slush Fund': Democrat Threatens to Investigate Trump's July 4 Parade"Using National Park entrance fees to pay for this display of pageantry is absolutely outrageous," Representative Betty McCollum said.

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How Much Will Trump's July 4 Parade Cost? Event Likely to Cost Millions"The American people deserve to know how much of their money the president is spending to turn their July 4th celebration into a de facto campaign rally," Democrats wrote in a letter to the Interior Department.

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Where is Same-Sex Marriage Legal?Austria, Ecuador and Taiwan join a growing list of nations recognizing marriage equality.

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Fact-Checking President Trump's Homelessness Claims in Fox News Interview"It's disgraceful. I'm going to maybe — I'm looking at it very seriously," Trump told Fox News host Tucker Carlson in response to homelessness in American cities.

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#CloseTheCamps Protests Demand Shut Down of Migrant Detention Centers"It's not okay let this go on for a minute longer while thousands of children and families are suffering," Emma Einhorn, the campaign director for MoveOn, told Newsweek.

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Ocasio-Cortez Claims CBP Officers Told Women To Drink Out of Toilets"This was them on their GOOD behavior in front of members of Congress," Ocasio-Cortez wrote in a series of tweets describing her visit to a detention facility.
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