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Biden's first Cabinet member to lead battered intel agencies

by Mary Clare JalonickEric Tucker
| January 21, 2021 12:06 AM

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate on Wednesday confirmed Avril Haines as director of national intelligence, giving President Joe Biden the first member of his Cabinet and placing the first woman in charge of the nearly two-decade old agency.

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