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New Amazon hub targets low-income customers receiving government assistance

By Brad Matthews - The Washington Times

This photo provided by BMW is an example of a modern infotainment system that has multiple methods of input. Users can interact with the system via the touchscreen, control knob or buttons on the dashboard. (Courtesy of BMW via AP)

BMW partners with Amazon to put new voice assistant in cars

By Ryan Lovelace - The Washington Times

In this Nov. 23, 2018, file photo shoppers browse the toy aisles during a Black Friday sale at a Target store in Newport, Ky. Crates of highly coveted toys are sitting in ports due to a national shortage of truck drivers to pick them up for delivery, creating "a perfect storm" this holiday shopping, account to an industry expert. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File) **FILE**

Inflation pushes retailers to launch Black Friday sales before Halloween

By Sean Salai - The Washington Times

A Yaqui Indigenous family walks past the cemetery where slain water-defense leader Tomás Rojo is buried, outside a church where they arrive to celebrate the Virgin Mary in Potam, Mexico, Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2022. Mexico has become the deadliest place in the world for environmental and land defense activists, and the Yaqui Indigenous people of northern Mexico are still mourning the killing of Rojo in June 2021. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

Mexico is world’s deadliest spot for environmental activists

By Mark Stevenson - Associated Press

Amazon to raise average hourly pay by $1

By Haleluya Hadero - Associated Press

Amazon to hold holiday shopping event in October

By Haleluya Hadero - Associated Press

Amazon boosts pay, benefits for delivery drivers

By Vaughn Cockayne - The Washington Times

In this Sept. 23, 2010, file photo, John W. Boyd Jr., founder and president of the National Black Farmers Association, walks to a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. Boyd said he is owed $8 million for lobbying Congress to fund a $3.4 billion government settlement with Native American landowners who were swindled out of royalties. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Biden’s ‘equity agenda’ tests the boundaries of affirmative action, meets pushback

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

Vice President Kamala Harris speaks at the National Baptist Convention, Thursday, Sept. 8, 2022, at Hilton Americas in Houston. (Yi-Chin Lee/Houston Chronicle via AP)

VP Harris announces partnership to promote space careers

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

This image released by Amazon Studios shows Benjamin Walker, from left, Morfydd Clark and Robert Aramayo from &quot;The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power.&quot; (Amazon Studios via AP)

Ambitious ‘Lord of the Rings’ prequel hopes to slay dragons

By Mark Kennedy - Associated Press

This Friday, June 16, 2017, file photo shows a Whole Foods Market in Indianapolis. Amazon is moving swiftly to make big changes at Whole Foods, saying it plans to cut prices on bananas, eggs, salmon, beef and more as soon as it completes its $13.7 billion takeover. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy, File)

Lawsuit claims Whole Foods falsely marketing beef as ‘antibiotics-free’

By Brad Matthews - The Washington Times

As Amazon grows, so does its eye on consumers

By Haleluya Hadero - Associated Press

Walmart+ adds Paramount+ to its member benefits in challenge to Prime

By Brad Matthews - The Washington Times

Amazon to raise seller fees for holidays amid rising costs

By Haleluya Hadero - Associated Press

Packages riding on a belt are scanned to be loaded onto delivery trucks at the Amazon Fulfillment center in Robbinsville Township, N.J., on Aug. 1, 2017. Federal work-safety investigators are looking into the death of an Amazon worker and an injury that potentially led to the death of another employee, adding to a probe already underway following a third fatality during the company's annual Prime Day shopping event in mid-July, 2022. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File)

OSHA investigating deaths of three Amazon workers at N.J. warehouses

By Brad Matthews - The Washington Times

A Ring doorbell camera is seen installed outside a home in Wolcott, Conn., on July 16, 2019. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill, File)

Amazon’s Ring, MGM to launch show from viral doorbell videos

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A Roomba 980 vacuum cleaning robot is presented during a presentation in Tokyo, Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2015. Amazon on Friday, Aug. 5, 2022, announced it has entered into an agreement to acquire the vacuum cleaner maker iRobot for approximately $1.66 billion. The company sells its robots worldwide and is most famous for the circular-shaped Roomba vacuum. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

Amazon to buy vacuum maker iRobot for roughly $1.7B

By Haleluya Hadero - Associated Press

Robert Aramayo, from left,Benjamin Walker, Charles Edwards, Owain Arthur, and Sophia Nomvete attend a panel for &quot;The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power&quot; on day two of Comic-Con International on Friday, July 22, 2022, in San Diego. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)

‘Lord of the Rings’ series trailer debuts at Comic-Con

By Lindsey Bahr - Associated Press

The Amazon DTW1 fulfillment center is shown in Romulus, Mich., April 1, 2020. Amazon announced Thursday, July 21, 2022, it will acquire the primary care organization One Medical in a deal valued roughly at $3.9 billion, marking another expansion for the retailer into health care services. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File)

Amazon to buy primary care provider One Medical for $3.9B

By Haleluya Hadero - Associated Press

Monhire Menkragnotire, of the Kayapo indigenous community, center, surveys an area where illegal loggers opened a road to enter Menkragnotire indigenous lands, on the border with the Biological Reserve Serra do Cachimbo, top, where logging is also illegal, in Altamira, Para state, Brazil on Aug. 31, 2019. Environmental criminals in the Brazilian Amazon destroyed public forests equal the size of El Salvador over the past six years, yet the Federal Police carried out only seven operations aimed at this massive loss, according to a new study released Wednesday, July 20, 2022. (AP Photo/Leo Correa, File)

Report: Brazil authorities pay no mind to deforestation

By Fabiano Maisonnave - Associated Press