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Joe Biden to Name Janet Yellen as Secretary of the Treasury

If confirmed, Janet Yellen would be the first woman to serve as Treasury Secretary….

Joe Biden has reportedly picked Janet Yellen, the former chair of the Federal Reserve Board, to be the next Secretary of the Treasury, a choice that will make history. There have been 77 Treasury Secretaries in the history of the United States, from Alexander Hamilton to Steve Mnuchin. None before Yellen has been a woman.

The news was first reported by The Wall Street Journal and then confirmed by several other news outlets.

Yellen is a well-known labor economist who taught at both Harvard and the University of California, Berkeley. She was also chairwoman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers during the Clinton administration, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, a Fed governor, Fed vice chair, and then, finally, the first woman to chair the Federal Reserve.

If confirmed, Yellen, 74, would also be the first person to have held the three key economic positions in the U.S. government: Fed chair, the head of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, and now Secretary of the Treasury.

Neither Biden nor Yellen have commented publicly on her appointment.

Biden disclosed to reporters last week that he would name a new Treasury Secretary around Thanksgiving, saying, “[You’ll] find it is someone who I think will be accepted by all elements of the Democratic Party, progressives through the moderate coalition.” From the beginning, Yellen was a leading contender for the job, along with another woman, Federal Reserve Governor Lael Brainard. Other leading candidates were said to be Sarah Bloom Raskin, a former Fed governor, and Raphael Bostic, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta.

Yellen resigned from the Fed in 2017 when, breaking with decades of tradition, President Trump did not re-appoint her for a second term, instead naming Jerome Powell as the new chair. In letter of resignation to Trump, Yellen said she was “gratified that the financial system is much stronger than a decade ago,” and that the economy had improved substantially under her watch. Also in the letter, she pointed out that 17 million jobs had been added since the financial crisis and that the Fed was close to achieving it goals of “maximum employment and price stability.”

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A$AP Rocky Turned An Entire Manchester City Kit Into His Album Rollout

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A$AP Rocky doesn’t do album rollouts quietly, and this one recruited an entire Premier League club to help. Manchester City, PUMA, and Rocky teamed up on a limited apparel run tied to “Don’t Be Dumb,” his 2026 album, timed around his September 5th show at Co-op Live.

The centerpiece is a long-sleeve PUMA King jersey in black and archive gold, with “DON’T BE DUMB” running down the sleeve and AWGE branding worked in throughout. A bold “MANCHESTER” graphic covers the back. Fans could also add limited “A$AP 11” name-and-number printing onto the club’s actual Home, Away, or Third kits, while supplies lasted at retail.

There’s a players-only version too, and it never went up for sale. That one sticks closer to City’s usual sky-blue identity, with its own sleeve detailing and back graphic — the kind of piece that exists purely because a handful of people got lucky.

The whole rollout kicked off with a one-night pop-up on September 4th, when PUMA turned a spot in Manchester’s Northern Quarter into a pop-up cafe for the night, mixing football, music, and street style into one room before the wider release hit the stadium store the next morning. Some of those jerseys even came with golden tickets to the concert or that Saturday’s match.

Rocky has called the project true to his own design language, and it’s not even his only club collaboration this cycle — a similar drop with AC Milan landed around the same time. At this point, the line between fashion week and matchday has basically disappeared.

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Quavo And Lids Are Going All In On Atlanta With Their New Cap Pack

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Quavo has never been shy about his hat obsession, and Lids just gave him another outlet for it. Their new “Atlanta” pack drops September 12th, marking another round in a partnership that’s been running strong since 2019.

The collection is a love letter to the city, spread across three very different caps. One mashes up pinstripes, script lettering, and Braves branding into a single design, working navy, red, white, and light blue into the mix. Another goes the opposite direction entirely — fully iced out in crystal detailing, done up in black and red, with both the Falcons and the Braves showing up in the design. The third strips things back to an old-school “ATL” trucker cap in red, white, and gold, the kind of understated piece that lets the city’s name do the talking.

None of this is new territory for Quavo. He’s talked before about waiting on hat releases as a kid, and that same excitement seems to be what’s kept this partnership going years past most celebrity collabs. His earlier Lids run leaned on one moment — the Braves’ 1995 World Series win — but this pack pulls from the city’s whole sports history instead of just one highlight.

Lids has called Quavo one of the rare voices who can blend music, fashion, and sports without it feeling forced, and this drop backs that up. Given how fast his past releases have moved, Atlanta might want to set an alarm for September 12th.

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