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The world of central banking is largely a man's world. But Janet Yellen, the Federal Reserve's new leader, has been undeterred by such barriers since she was in high school in Brooklyn. Now global financial markets will be watching her every move.

Rep. Elijah Cummings, the ranking member on the House Oversight Committee, says materials from an IRS workshop in 2010 instructed agents to flag applications from "progressive" groups as well as those with "Tea Party," "patriot" or "9/12" in their names.

She's known for celebrity imitations: Hillary Clinton and Owen Wilson, Jennifer Lopez and Bjork, and so on. Now, as she joins Saturday Night Live's full cast, she's learning what else she can do.

Israeli and Hamas negotiators are meeting in Qatar to discuss a potential ceasefire in the 10-month old Gaza war. Hamas says it doesn’t have all the hostages and some were seized by families.

In an interview about her book, How Safe Are We?, Janet Napolitano says "a wall is a symbol, it's not a strategy" and that there's no evidence Russia has stopped interfering with our election systems.

Oklahoma's top education official has made headlines for mandating Bibles in each classroom but once upon a time he was a high school teacher who enjoyed dissecting racy HBO dramas with students.

Lawyer and journalist Adam Cohen explores five decades of Supreme Court opinions and comes to a rueful conclusion: These decisions have greatly exacerbated the space between rich and poor.

Drug deaths are declining but the Trump administration's intelligence team has issued a new report describing street fentanyl as a top threat to the U.S.

The British band Coldplay tops the Billboard 200 this week with its latest album.

"It's been a thrill. It's been unbelievable. I've loved it," Williams said on Thursday. The 2007 Naismith Hall of Fame inductee led the team to national championships in 2005, 2009 and 2017.