(USA) Janet Yellen confirmed as US Treasury secretary (Saleha Mohsin and Christopher Condon, Bloomberg, Al Jazeera)

Yellen, among the first of Biden’s picks to be confirmed, is the first woman to hold the job of overseeing the economy.

https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2021/1/26/bb-janet-yellen-confirmed-as-treasury-secretary