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US President-elect Joe Biden has named ex-Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen as his nominee for treasury secretary. If confirmed by the Senate, she would be the first woman ever to hold the post. She was among several women chosen for top economic positions. The Biden transition team said others were set to break racial barriers if confirmed. Mr Biden has pledged to build a diverse administration. He earlier appointed an all-female senior press team. His transition team said his picks for senior economic roles would help "lift America out of the current economic downturn and build back better". Janet Louise Yellen (born August 13, 1946) is an American economist at the Brookings Institution and a professor emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business. She served as the Chair of the Federal Reserve from 2014 to 2018, and as Vice Chair from 2010 to 2014. She was the first woman to head the Federal Reserve. Yellen was a Federal Reserve Board Governo

In a dramatic deviation from historical practices, the Trump Administration is poised to conduct the first federal executions during a lame-duck presidency in more than a century. The Department of Justice has scheduled three federal executions during the administration’s lame-duck period: Orlando Hall on November 19, Lisa Montgomery on December 8, and Brandon Bernard on December 10. The last time the U.S. government carried out an execution between a presidential election and the inauguration of the new president for a federal crime was nearly 132 years ago, on January 25, 1889, when the outgoing administration of Grover Cleveland (pictured) executed Richard Smith, a Choctaw Indian, for a murder on tribal land in Arkansas. The federal rush to execute conflicts sharply with national trends that show declining support for capital punishment.  The Trump administration's excessive execution at the end of its term seems to be conscious of President-elect Joe Biden. Biden, a devout Cath

U.S. President-elect Biden has made a personnel reshuffle to fill all of his senior aides, including a spokesman who will be the mouth of the White House, with women. Biden nominated Jen Psaki as the first White House spokesman for the incoming administration on the 29th. Psaki served as White House press secretary and State Department spokesman in the Barack Obama administration. There are many outstanding people in the world. And half of them are women.

  Blinken, who has been mentioned as the next secretary of state, is a veteran diplomat who is said to be "a person raised to be a diplomat." He worked for the White House National Security Council during the Bill Clinton administration and served as deputy national security adviser to the White House and deputy assistant secretary of state for the Barack Obama administration. As Biden's confidant, he assisted Biden's Senate Foreign Relations Committee activities and served as a security adviser when he was vice president for nearly 20 years. In particular, when Biden was vice president, he was known to have contributed greatly to the creation of the Iran Nuclear Agreement (JCPOA) as a security adviser. In the upcoming presidential election, he also drafted Biden's foreign affairs and security policy. The media explained that considering his expertise as a diplomat and his closeness to Biden, he is considered the right person to implement Biden's pledge to ret