Day: May 14, 2025
Promises of tech-driven growth give big US firms access to Downing Street that leaves rivals in the cold
The problem with the UK, according to the former Google boss Eric Schmidt, is that it has “so many ways that people can say no”.
However, for some critics of the Labour government, it has a glaring issue with saying yes: to big tech.
Jay Bratt asserted constitutional right to silence before panel pursuing people involved in prosecutions of Trump
The former special counsel prosecutor Jay Bratt asserted his fifth amendment right not to answer questions during a Wednesday deposition before a Republican-led House committee looking for evidence of politicization in the prosecutions of Donald Trump, a spokesman said.
Bratt, who led the federal criminal case over Donald Trump’s alleged mishandling of classified documents as a top deputy to the former special counsel Jack Smith, was invited to testify by the House judiciary committee, which is chaired by the Ohio Republican Jim Jordan, a prominent defender of the president.
