November 19, 20240 Comments

Senator says Trump cannot ignore law requiring ByteDance to divest TikTok by next year By Reuters

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The chair of a U.S. Senate Judiciary subcommittee said on Tuesday that President-elect Donald Trump cannot ignore a law requiring Chinese-based TikTok to divest the short video app used by 170 million Americans by early next year. Senator Richard Blumenthal, a Democrat who is holding a hearing on Chinese hacking incidents, noted that Congress passed a law in April requiring divestiture of the app by Jan. 19,

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November 11, 20240 Comments

Treasury should have told us about £9.5bn overspend by law

Getty Images The OBR said the last government did not provide them with all available information at former chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s last Budget The Treasury should have disclosed a £9.5bn overspend in the public finances in the run-up to the previous government’s Spring Budget “under the law”, the UK’s budget watchdog has said. Richard Hughes, chair of the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR), told a committee of MPs on Tuesday

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