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How Google could sue Australia for billions Share Google and Facebook could sue the government for billions of dollars over a proposed law to force the digital giants to pay publishers for displaying news content, by seizing on investment clauses in the Australia-Singapore trade agreement, international treaty experts and Senator Rex Patrick have warned. The government’s proposed media bargaining code could be vulnerable to a challenge in international arbitration by the Silicon Valley companies under so-called investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) rules. Google and Facebook are pushing ...

WASHINGTON — Democrats on Tuesday took the first step to push through President Biden’s $1.9 trillion economic rescue plan, using a budgetary maneuver that could eventually allow the measure to become law without Republican support. The move advanced the two-track strategy that Mr. Biden and Democratic leaders are employing to speed the aid package through Congress: show Republicans that they have the votes to pass an ambitious spending bill...

Sen. Patrick Leahy taken to hospital and released hours after being sworn in to preside over impeachment trial aharoun@businessinsider.com (Azmi Haroun) © Terry Ashe/The LIFE Images Collection / Getty Senator Patrick J. Leahy walking outside after the Senate briefing of the downing of Iranian Airbus A300 by USS Vincennes in the Persian Gulf. Terry Ashe/The LIFE Images Collection / Getty Democratic Sen. Patrick Leahy checked into a local hospital, his staff reported, after he was not feeling well.  Leahy was checked in for medical evaluation hours after being sworn in on th...

Mr. Leahy, whose position in the Senate puts him third in line for the presidency, oversaw the start of the impeachment proceedings against former President Donald J. Trump earlier on Tuesday.

The trial will be formally triggered once the House sends its single article of impeachment to the Senate