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President Biden’s nominee to guide the Workplace of Administration and Price range has withdrawn from the proceedings. Key Democratic and Republican senators refused to again Neera Tanden.

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President Biden will not be getting the price range director he wished. Neera Tanden withdrew her nomination. Her path to affirmation was trying troublesome due to some issues she’d posted on social media wherein she was very important of each Republicans and Democrats. Democrats have slim management of the Senate. However Biden couldn’t maintain his caucus collectively on this one. NPR’s Franco Ordoñez is following this story. Good morning, Franco.

FRANCO ORDOÑEZ, BYLINE: Good morning, Noel.

KING: What occurred final night time?

ORDOÑEZ: Properly, you recognize, the Biden administration had been making the rounds on Capitol Hill. They had been making an attempt to promote a few Republican senators on Tanden’s nomination. However a number of lawmakers on each side

UK spending on movies, music and gaming elevated to a report excessive final yr, pushed by elevated demand for streaming throughout Covid-19 lockdowns.

Retail leisure spend elevated 18 per cent to a report £9.3bn in 2020, marking the eight successive yr of progress within the sector and the quickest progress price ever recorded.

The ultimate determine was £210m larger than earlier estimates printed in January by the Leisure Retailers Affiliation (ERA).

The robust efficiency for dwelling leisure got here as the general leisure sector, which incorporates actions corresponding to hobbies, consuming out and holidays overseas, shrunk virtually 30 per cent as a result of pandemic.

The figures confirmed that whereas in-home leisure spending rose 2.3 per cent final yr to £77.7bn, away from dwelling expenditure plunged 39 per cent to £154bn.

Inside leisure, gaming stays the most important single sub-sector, accounting for 48 per cent of complete gross sales.

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The 78th Golden Globes had been held Sunday evening, and it was a really completely different form of awards ceremony as a result of pandemic. Large winners included the TV sequence The Crown and the movie Nomadland.

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Hollywood celebrated the 78th Golden Globe Awards final evening nearly, and like every Zoom assembly, it was, at factors, bizarre and tense. The Hollywood Overseas Press Affiliation had been criticized for nominating stuff that critics and viewers thought was wonderful however overlooking artwork like Michaela Coel’s “I Might Destroy You.” Presenters handled it. Here is NPR’s Mandalit del Barco.

MANDALIT DEL BARCO, BYLINE: The Hollywood Overseas Press Affiliation, the HFPA, has lengthy been mocked over its credibility. A Los Angeles Occasions investigation final week revealed doable self-dealing and moral points round entry to celebrities and lavish journeys for members. As well as, the paper reported of the 87 journalists

Half of Britain’s money machines may shut inside two years except banks are pressured to help them, specialists have warned.

A few of the UK’s 41,000 free community may very well be shut, together with 4,000 machines in rural and poorer communities, as they develop into too costly to run, based on the estimates.

The state of affairs was raised on a name with regulators, lenders and different teams final week about how you can protect entry to money for many who want it.

The hunch in money withdrawals because of the pandemic has intensified the pattern of individuals switching to digital funds. Because the begin of final yr, 3,300 free-to-use money machines and 431 financial institution branches have closed, Which?, the buyer group, thinks.

The “cataclysmic cliff edge” may result in the collapse of money being obtainable throughout the nation, based on an insider to the talks.

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Activists are prone to be disenchanted that the Senate parliamentarian dominated towards the inclusion of a $15 minimal wage within the large COVID aid invoice. However the provision’s omission seemingly means the measure will acquire extra assist within the Senate.

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Activists are prone to be disenchanted that the Senate parliamentarian dominated towards the inclusion of a $15 minimal wage within the large COVID aid invoice. However the provision’s omission seemingly means the measure will acquire extra assist within the Senate.

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Senate Democrats is not going to be pressured to confront an inner political battle over growing the federal minimal wage to $15 following a choice by the first keeper of Senate guidelines.

The Senate parliamentarian dominated {that a} plan to regularly enhance the federal minimal wage to $15 an hour