Today the Senate voted in confirmed millionaire Janet Yellen as the next leader of the Federal Reserve. She will be the first woman to take the helm in the office's 100-year history.

The Senate confirmed Gen. David Petraeus as CIA director today, 94-0. Meanwhile, the Justice Department will "drop criminal investigations of most CIA officials" who tortured people. Is there a quid pro quo here, or just two independent, predictable things?

Yesterday we told you a story about Arianna Huffington being escorted off a plane by police after she refused to turn off her Blackberry. It's been officially confirmed! Also officially confirmed: she could not be less concerned about illicit Blackberry-ing.

The Senate has confirmed David Petraeus as Afghanistan's top commander in a close vote, 99-0.

Sonia Sotomayor rocked history books today when she was sworn in as the 111th Associate Justice of the United States, and the first Hispanic to do it. Let's look back at how she got here, and how people are celebrating:

Dash Snow's grandmother confirms he died by heroin overdose last night. [NYT]

Animal NY street chronicler Bucky Turco took the bait of our sighting this morning of the elusive British stencil artist Banksy. Bucky traipsed over to Thunder Jacksons in the West Village and captured THE FIRST PICTURES of this new Banksy piece, which have just increased the value of the building 25-fold [UPDATE: Or have they? Gothamist says this work is by Nick Walker, not Banksy. We're investigating. More to come.]. Click through for some larger pics of the three-part work, and then go over to Animal NY to read some more clues that Bucky gleaned about the artist . Journalism in action: