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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

In this April 17, 2019, file photo online customer reviews for a product are displayed on a computer in New York. Amazon has filed a lawsuit against administrators of more than 10,000 Facebook groups it accuses of coordinating fake reviews in exchange for money or free products. The Seattle-based e-commerce giant said in a statement Tuesday, July 19, 2022, the Facebook groups were set up to recruit people “willing to post incentivized and misleading reviews” across its stores in the U.S. the U.K., Germany, France, Italy, Spain and Japan. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane, File)

Amazon sues admins of 10K Facebook groups over fake reviews

By Haleluya Hadero

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

Amazon handed Ring footage to police without user consent

By Haleluya Hadero - Associated Press

An Amazon Prime truck passes by a sign outside an Amazon fulfillment center on Staten Island, New York, on March 19, 2020. Amazon is heading into its annual Prime Day sales event on Tuesday, July 12, 2022, much differently than how it entered the pandemic. Once the darling of the pandemic economy, the company posted a rare quarterly loss in April as well as its slowest rate of revenue growth in nearly two decades at 7%. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens, File)

Amazon Prime Day comes amid slowdown in online sales growth

By Haleluya Hadero - Associated Press

A hiring sign is displayed at a restaurant in Schaumburg, Ill., Friday, April 1, 2022. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh) **FILE**

Pandemic over-hiring ends as inflation causes business slowdown

By Vaughn Cockayne - The Washington Times

Amazon enters agreement with Grubhub, offers food delivery to Prime customers

By Vaughn Cockayne - The Washington Times

Amazon faces U.K. investigation over anti-competitive concerns

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Real Madrid's Marcelo lifts the trophy after winning the Champions League final soccer match between Liverpool and Real Madrid at the Stade de France in Saint Denis near Paris, Saturday, May 28, 2022. Real Madrid defeated Liverpool 1-0.(AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)

Amazon gets Champions League games in British TV deal

By Graham Dunbar - Associated Press

In this Friday, Oct. 4, 2013, photo, economist Arthur Laffer, known as the &quot;father of supply-side economics&quot; and who was an economic adviser to President Ronald Reagan, speaks to an executive committee meeting of the California Republican Party at their convention in Anaheim, Calif. President Donald Trump is set to award the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Laffer. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon) **FILE**

Laffer gets off sidelines to fight antitrust bill aimed at reining in Big Tech

By Ryan Lovelace - The Washington Times

Amazon Echo and Echo Plus devices, behind, sit near illuminated Echo Button devices during an event by the company in Seattle on Sept. 27, 2017. Amazon’s Alexa might soon replicate the voice of family members - even if they’re dead. The capability, unveiled at Amazon’s Re:Mars conference in Las Vegas Wednesday, June 22, 2022, is in development and would allow the virtual assistant to mimic the voice of a specific person based on a less than a minute of provided recording. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, File)

Amazon developing a new Alexa feature: A voice that sounds like your dead family member or friend

By Matt Delaney - The Washington Times

Former President Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama are shown in this undated file photo. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Obamas ink deal with Amazon’s Audible after Spotify fallout

By Matt Delaney - The Washington Times

Washington Football Team quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick attends an NFL football practice, Tuesday, Aug. 17, 2021, in Ashburn, Va. Quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick confirmed to The Associated Press on Friday, June 3, 2022, that he informed former teammates of his intention to retire a day earlier. Former Bills running back Fred Jackson first announced the news of Fitzpatrick’s retirement on his Twitter account by posting an image and message from his former Buffalo teammate. The 39-year-old Fitzpatrick’s career ends after a brief stint in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File) **FILE**

Ryan Fitzpatrick to join Amazon as analyst for ‘Thursday Night Football’

By Jacob Calvin Meyer - The Washington Times

Apple workers vote to unionize at Maryland store

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Indigenous leader Kamuu Wapichana is backdropped by a banner that show images of missing freelance British journalist Dom Phillips, left, and Indigenous expert Bruno Pereira, during a protest asking authorities to expand the search efforts for the two men, in front of the Ministry of Justice in Brasilia, Brazil, Tuesday, June 14, 2022. The search for Pereira and Phillips, who disappeared in a remote area of Brazil’s Amazon continued following the discovery of a backpack, laptop and other personal belongings submerged in a river. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

Brazil Indigenous expert was ‘bigger target’ in recent years

By Mauricio Savarese and Fabiano Maisonnave - Associated Press

FILE - A man holds an African-American flag during a demonstration in Chicago on June 19, 2020, to mark Juneteenth, the holiday celebrating the day in 1865 that enslaved black people in Galveston, Texas, learned they had been freed from bondage, more than two years after the Emancipation Proclamation. Retailers and marketers from Walmart to Amazon have been quick to commemorate Juneteenth with an avalanche of merchandise from ice cream to T-shirts to party favors. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh, File)

T-shirts? Ice cream? Retailers cash in on Juneteenth

By Anne D'Innocenzio - Associated Press

Federal police officers arrive at the pier with recovered human remains found during a search for Indigenous expert Bruno Pereira of Brazil and freelance reporter Dom Phillips of Britain, in Atalaia do Norte, Amazonas state, Brazil, Wednesday, June 15, 2022. A federal police investigator said a suspect confessed to fatally shooting Pereira and Phillips in a remote part of the Amazon and took officers to where the bodies were buried. (AP Photo/Edmar Barros)

Police: Amazon fisherman confesses to killing missing pair

By Fabianno Maisonnave, Edmar Barros and Mauricio Savarese - Associated Press

Soldiers search for missing British journalist Dom Phillips and Indigenous affairs expert Bruno Araujo Pereira from a helicopter over Javari Valley Indigenous territory, Atalaia do Norte, Amazonas state, Brazil, Friday, June 10, 2022. Phillips and Pereira were last seen on Sunday morning in the Javari Valley, Brazil's second-largest Indigenous territory which sits in an isolated area bordering Peru and Colombia. (AP Photo/Edmar Barros)

Police tortured suspect in Amazon disappearance, family says

By Fabiano Maisonnave - Associated Press

A person holds six electric candles symbolizing the six workers who died while working at the Edwardsville Amazon site in the background, during a vigil, Friday, Dec. 17, 2021, in Edwardsville, Ill., after part of the building collapsed due to a tornado the previous week before. Democratic members of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform are accusing Amazon of “obstructing” their investigation into the company's labor practices during severe weather events. Amazon's policies have been under more scrutiny since the deadly collapse of a company warehouse last year in Edwardsville. (Derik Holtmann/Belleville News-Democrat via AP, FIle)

Amazon ‘obstructing’ House probe into warehouse collapse

By Haleluya Hadero - Associated Press

Customers stand near a display of Kindle electronic readers at the opening day for Amazon Books, the first brick-and-mortar retail store for online retail giant Amazon, Nov. 3, 2015, in Seattle. Amazon said Thursday, June 2, 2022 it will shut down its digital Kindle bookstores in China and stop selling the device to retailers in the country. The company said in a WeChat post that the bookstore will stop operating on June 30, 2023. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

Amazon to close Kindle offerings, other Big Tech players also shrinking footprint in China

By Ryan Lovelace - The Washington Times

A customer walks behind a sign at a Nordstrom store seeking employees, Friday, May 21, 2021, in Coral Gables, Fla. The number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits dropped last week to 406,000, a new pandemic low and more evidence that the job market is strengthening as the virus wanes and economy further reopens. (AP Photo/Marta Lavandier)

Conservatives launch new pressure campaign on ‘woke’ corporations

By Sean Salai - The Washington Times