Senate confirms Mayorkas as Biden’s homeland security chief

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate has confirmed Alejandro Mayorkas as President Joe Biden’s homeland security secretary. He’s the first Latino to fill the post, and the first immigrant to do so. The department is central to the Biden administration’s response to the coronavirus pandemic, a sweeping Russia-linked cyber hack and domestic extremism. Mayorkas is expected to lead a broad policy overhaul of an agency that was accused of being deeply politicized as it carried out Pre