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WASHINGTON AP 鈥?The Senate on Monday approved President Joe Bidens nomination of Janet Yellen to be the nations 78th treasury secretary, making her the first woman to hold the job in the department 232-year history.Watch the full Senate in the player above.Yellen, a for
stanley cup mer chair of the Federal Reserve, was approved by the Senate on a 84-15 vote, becoming the third member of Bidens Cabinet to win confirmation.She is expected to play a key role in gaining congressional approval of Bidens $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package, which is running into stiff opposition from Republicans who believe the price tag is too high.Speaking on the Senate floor before the vote, Democratic Majority Leader Chuck Schumer noted the former Federal Reserve chairwoman had bipartisan support.Schumer said Yellen has a breathtaking range of experience and support for her nomination reflected just how well suited she is to manage the economic
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STOCKHOLM AP 鈥?Jon Fosse, a master of spare Nordic literature in a sprawling body of work ranging from pl
adidas campus ays to novels and childrens books, won the Nobel Prize in literature on Thursday for works that give voice to the unsayable. Watch in the player above. Anders Olsson, chairman of the Nobel literature committee, said Fosses work is rooted in the language and nature of his Norwegian background. I am overwhelmed and grateful. I see this as an award to the literature that first and foremost aims to be literature, without other considerations, Fosse, 64, said in a statement released by his publishing house, Samlaget.WATCH: Author and Nobel Prize Laureate Annie Ernaux discusses her genre-bending workOne of his countrys most-performed dramatists, Fosse has written some 40 plays as well as novels, short stories, childrens books, poetry and essays. The Swedish Academy, which awards the prize, said it was for his innovati
stanley cup ve plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable. Mats Malm, permanent secretary of the academy, reached Fosse by telephone to inform him of the win. He said the writer was driving in the countryside and promised to drive home carefully.A 2021 rehearsal for the premiere of the opera Sleepless, adapted from a trilogy by Jon Fosse. Photo by Nina Hansch/ picture alliance via Getty ImagesFosse is the fourth Norwegian wri
stanley cup ter to get the Nobel. Bj酶rnstjerne Bj酶rnson got it in 1903, Knut Hamsun was awarded it in 1920 and Sigrid Undset in 1928.His wo
