Trump says US-UK relationship ‘highest level of special’

Donald Trump, who stirred tension in the UK by giving a critical interview to a tabloid newspaper about Prime Minister Theresa May, said he ranked the relationship between the two nations as ‘highest level of special’. Standing next to May during a joint media conference, Trump repeatedly stressed his “tremendous respect” to his host and […]

A NAFTA negotiator’s anecdote about feta cheese from Vermont explains why a US-UK Brexit trade deal will be harder than most people think

Reuters / John MacDougall On paper, negotiating a UK-USA trade agreement should be easy. The reality is likely to be much more complex. “A trade deal more likely than not, but it’s going to be more complicated than people think,” said Ambassador Charles Ries, a US diplomat who helped negotiate NAFTA, the world’s largest trade […]

US-UK plan would share tech companies’ data with both governments

Companies like Microsoft and Google store some of their data overseas and when US agencies want access to that data, during a criminal case, for example, they often have a fight on their hands. That’s because current laws don’t require these companies to provide that data, just as they don’t require these companies to hand […]