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News Articles: amazon

Working conditions at Amazon's warehouses, which are mushrooming across the U.S., are attracting increased scrutiny.

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  • Business

Senators Want An Investigation Of How Amazon Treats Its Pregnant Workers

Lawmakers urged the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to investigate in a letter signed by Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren and 3 others.

September 11, 2021
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By:
  • Alina Selyukh
Some leading Democratic lawmakers are accusing Amazon of profiting off the spread of COVID-19 and vaccine misinformation.

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  • Technology

An Anti-Vaccine Book Tops Amazon's COVID Search Results. Lawmakers Call Foul

Democratic lawmakers are pressing the e-commerce giant about what it's doing to stop its systems from recommending books and other products with falsehoods about the pandemic and vaccines.

September 09, 2021
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By:
  • Shannon Bond
Signs reading "vote" hang outside the Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Ala., in March as workers wrapped up their seven-week mail-in election on whether to unionize.

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  • Business

Amazon Warehouse Workers In Alabama May Get To Vote Again On Union

A federal labor official found that Amazon's anti-union tactics may have tainted last spring's voting process sufficiently to scrap its results. Workers had rejected unionization more than 2-to-1.

August 03, 2021
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By:
  • Alina Selyukh and
  • Stephan Bisaha
The Amazon website is seen in 2017 in Dandenong, Australia. Amazon was among dozens of sites hit by a massive internet outage on Thursday.

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  • Technology

Internet Outage That Crashed Dozens Of Websites Caused By Software Update

Amazon, Delta and Capital One were among dozens of sites hit by the widespread outage. Content distribution network Akamai says the disruption was caused by a software configuration update.

July 22, 2021
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By:
  • Deepa Shivaram
Jeff Bezos hugs Van Jones, founder of Dream Corps, on Tuesday after announcing a $200 million award to him and chef José Andrés for charities of their choice.

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  • Business

Bezos Landed, Thanked Amazon Workers And Shoppers For Paying, Gave Away $200 Million

Jeff Bezos gave $100 million each in "courage and civility awards" to CNN's Van Jones and chef José Andrés.

July 22, 2021
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By:
  • Alina Selyukh
An Amazon delivery driver bravely conquers a persistent arachnid that had tormented a self-described spider-hating customer.

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  • Technology

An Amazon Delivery Driver Killed A Spider For A Grateful Customer. There's A Video

Terrified of the "huge" spider on her porch, a woman used Amazon's special instructions section to ask her delivery driver to kill it. He did, and now she's trying to find him to say, "Thank you."

July 16, 2021
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By:
  • Josie Fischels
The Consumer Product Safety Commission has sued Amazon to pressure the retail giant to recall hundreds of thousands of potentially hazardous products.

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  • Business

U.S. Consumer Agency Sues Amazon To Force A Recall Of Potentially Hazardous Products

The Consumer Product Safety Commission said the giant online retailer had to accept responsibility for the potentially unsafe products listed on its platform and recall them.

July 15, 2021
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  • Joe Hernandez
The Defense Department is canceling its mammoth cloud contract won by Microsoft and long litigated by Amazon.

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  • Business

Pentagon Scraps $10 Billion Contract With Microsoft, Bitterly Contested By Amazon

The Defense Department canceled its $10 billion cloud contract called JEDI, planning instead to hire multiple vendors. Amazon sued after its loss to Microsoft, seeking to depose Donald Trump.

July 06, 2021
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  • Alina Selyukh
Jeff Bezos stepped down on as CEO of Amazon on Monday and is handing the reins to his longtime deputy Andy Jassy.

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  • Technology

Jeff Bezos Built Amazon 27 Years Ago. He Now Steps Down As CEO At Critical Time

Bezos is handing day-to-day duties to his longtime deputy Andy Jassy but will continue to hold considerable sway as executive chairman.

July 05, 2021
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By:
  • Bobby Allyn
Facebook's CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Vice President of Partnerships Dan Rose and Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg walk together at the Allen & Company Sun Valley Conference on July 12, 2018 in Sun Valley, Idaho. Top tech and media moguls descend on the resort every year for a week of activities - and deals.

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  • Business

Moguls, Deals And Patagonia Vests: A Look Inside 'Summer Camp For Billionaires'

Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg is expected to attend. So is Apple's Tim Cook. A look inside the Sun Valley conference for top media and tech moguls organized by a little known investment firm.

July 05, 2021
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By:
  • David Gura
Federal Trade Commission chair Lina Khan is one of the most prominent progressive voices calling for more aggressive curbs on the dominance of big companies.

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  • Technology

New FTC Chair Lina Khan Wants To Redefine Monopoly Power For The Age Of Big Tech

The new Federal Trade Commission chair's first big challenge will be rewriting a lawsuit against Facebook that a federal court tossed out earlier this week.

July 01, 2021
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  • Shannon Bond
The Teamsters, which represents 1.4 million workers nationwide, introduced a resolution making organizing Amazon workers across the country a top priority.

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  • Business

The Teamsters Want To Unionize Amazon Workers. Here's What That Means

At a convention of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters this week, the union announced plans to create a special division focused on organizing Amazon workers across the country.

June 22, 2021
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By:
  • Andrea Hsu
Amazon Founder and CEO Jeff Bezos came under fire after a ProPublica investigation showed that he received $4,000 in child tax credits in recent years. Bezos is seen here in 2018.

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  • Opinion

Opinion: On Claiming The Child Tax Credit

NPR's Scott Simon ponders the child tax credit, why it was created and why someone as wealthy as Amazon founder Jeff Bezos would get it.

June 12, 2021
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By:
  • Scott Simon
A man holds his vaccination reminder card after having received his first shot at a pop-up vaccination site next to Maximo Gomez Park, also known as Domino Park, on May 3 in the Little Havana neighborhood of Miami.

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  • Law

Fake COVID Vaccine Cards Are Being Sold Online. Using One Is A Crime

Officials have pleaded with tech giants to keep the documents off their sites, but Amazon briefly had blank vaccination cards for sale this week. They could land their bearers in prison.

June 08, 2021
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By:
  • Jaclyn Diaz
Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos announced he'll be on board a spaceflight next month in a capsule attached to a rocket made by his space exploration company Blue Origin. Bezos is seen here in 2019.

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  • Space

Jeff Bezos Is Going To Space (For A Few Minutes)

"Ever since I was five years old, I've dreamed of traveling to space," Bezos said. The 11-minute flight will take place two weeks after the billionaire steps down as Amazon CEO.

June 07, 2021
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  • Laurel Wamsley
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