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In this May 17, 2022, photo, Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., speaks during a hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Anna Rose Layden/Pool Photo via AP) **FILE**

Rubio calls for new curbs on China’s rival to Amazon, TikTok Shop

By Ryan Lovelace - The Washington Times

FILE - Indigenous people painted with red ink representing spilled Indigenous blood and clay representing gold, protest against the increase of mining activities that are encroaching on their land, in front of the Ministry of Mines and Energy, in Brasilia, Brazil, April 11, 2022. Some of the world’s biggest mining companies have withdrawn requests for research and production in Indigenous territories of Brazil’s Amazon rainforest, and have repudiated Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro’s efforts to legalize mining activity in the areas. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres, File)

Mining companies back away from Brazil’s Indigenous areas

By Fabiano Maisonnave - Associated Press

Facebook slower than Twitch, other sites to yank Buffalo shooting videos

By Haleuya Hadero - Associated Press

Washington Commanders head coach Ron Rivera speaks with reporters before Rookie Mini Camp practice at the team's NFL football training facility, Friday, May 6, 2022 in Ashburn, Va. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Commanders open season against Jaguars, full 2022 schedule released

By Matthew Paras - The Washington Times

FILE - New York State Attorney General Letitia James speaks during the New York State Democratic Convention in New York, Thursday, Feb. 17, 2022. An appeals court in New York has dismissed James’ lawsuit against Amazon, Tuesday, May 10. Besides potentially exposing workers to the virus at two Amazon facilities in New York City, the lawsuit filed by James last year had said the company illegally retaliated against workers who spoke up about poor safety conditions. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

New York appeals court dismisses AG suit against Amazon

By Haleluya Hadero - Associated Press

President Joe Biden speaks during a Cinco de Mayo event in the Rose Garden of the White House, Thursday, May 5, 2022, in Washington. First lady Jill Biden stands at right. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Biden meets with Amazon labor union head

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

This April 26, 2017 file photo shows the Google mobile phone icon, in Philadelphia. Alphabet Inc., parent company of Google, reports financial results, Tuesday, April 27, 2021. Google’s digital advertising network has shifted back into high gear after an unprecedented reversal during the early stages of the pandemic. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Google reports 3.4 billion ads removed, 5.6 million advertisers booted in 2021 content crackdown

By Ryan Lovelace - The Washington Times

In this Aug. 8, 2018, file photo shoppers enter a Whole Foods Market in Upper Saint Clair, Pa. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File)

Amazon shutting down six Whole Foods Market locations

By Peter Santo - The Washington Times

In this image from video, Amazon workers line up outside the company's Staten Island warehouse to vote on unionization, Friday, March 25, 2022, in New York. Amazon and the nascent group that successfully organized the company’s first-ever U.S. union are headed for a rematch Monday, May 2, 2022, when a federal labor board will tally votes cast by warehouse workers in yet another election on Staten Island. (AP Photo/Robert Bumsted) **FILE**

Amazon workers vote against unionizing New York warehouse, dealing major blow to organizers

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

White House press secretary Jen Psaki speaks during the daily briefing at the White House in Washington, Monday, May 2, 2022. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Psaki sidesteps questions about White House meeting with Amazon, Starbucks union leaders

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

Christian Smalls, president of the Amazon Labor Union, speaks at a rally outside an Amazon facility on Staten Island in New York, Sunday, April 24, 2022. Amazon and the nascent group that successfully organized the company’s first-ever U.S. union are headed for a rematch Monday, May 2, 2022, when a federal labor board will tally votes cast by warehouse workers in yet another election on Staten Island. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig) **FILE**

Feds begin counting votes for forming 2nd union by Amazon workers in NYC

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

FILE - People arrive for work at the Amazon distribution center in the Staten Island borough of New York, on Oct. 25, 2021. Amazon plans to file objections to the union election on Staten Island, N.Y., that resulted in the first successful U.S. organizing effort in the company’s history. The e-commerce giant stated its plans in a legal filing to the National Labor Relations Board made public Thursday, April 7, 2022. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle, File)

Amazon union could face a tough road ahead after victory

By Haleluya Hadero - Associated Press

President Joe Biden reacts to the cheering crowd as he arrives to speak at the North America's Building Trades Unions (NABTU) Legislative Conference at the Washington Hilton in Washington, Wednesday, April 6, 2022. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Biden’s dramatic pro-union rhetoric becomes backdoor labor law

By Richard Berman

FILE - In this Jan. 31, 2020 photo a woman holds a Puff Bar flavored disposable vape device in New York. The Food and Drug Administration says it will soon begin cracking down on vaping companies that have used a now-closed loophole to escape federal oversight, including the company behind a line of fruit-flavored e-cigarettes that have become the top choice among teenagers. Under a new law taking effect Thursday, April 14, 2022, the FDA can regulate e-cigarettes and similar products that use synthetic nicotine. (AP Photo/Marshall Ritzel)

E-cigs using synthetic nicotine come under FDA oversight

By Matthew Perrone - Associated Press

Amazon adding fuel and inflation surcharge

By Peter Santo - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Dec. 5, 2019, file photo, AWS CEO Andy Jassy, discusses a new initiative with the NFL during AWS re:Invent 2019 in Las Vegas. In his first letter to Amazon shareholders, Jassy offered a defense of wages and benefits the company gives its warehouse workers while also vowing to improve injury rates inside the facilities. Jassy, who took over from Amazon founder Jeff Bezos as CEO last July, wrote the company has researched and created a list of the top 100 “employee experience pain points” and is working to solve them. A report released this week by a coalition of four labor unions found Amazon employed 33% of all U.S. warehouse workers in 2021, but was responsible for 49% of all injuries in the industry. (Isaac Brekken/AP Images for NFL, File)

Amazon CEO Jassy says he wants to improve warehouse safety

By Associated Press - Associated Press

Staten Island-based Amazon.com Inc distribution center union members celebrate after getting the voting results to unionize on Friday, April 1, 2022, in New York. Amazon workers in Staten Island voted to unionize, marking the first successful U.S. organizing effort in the retail giant's history and handing an unexpected win to a nascent group that fueled the union drive. (AP Photo/Eduardo Munoz Alvarez, File)

Amazon’s first U.S. union overcomes hurdles, faces new ones

By Haleluya Hadero and Anne D’Innocenzio - Associated Press

Angelika Maldonado, right, Amazon Labor Union (ALU) chairwoman of workers committee at Staten Island Amazon warehouse, and Brett Daniels, director of organizing for ALU workers committee, watch a zoom-cast of vote counting to unionize Amazon warehouse on Staten Island, N.Y., Thursday March 31, 2022, in New York. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

Amazon workers in NYC vote to unionize, a first for company

By Haleluya Hadero and Anne D'Innocenzio - Associated Press

Suspended Amazon employee Reyn McGuire talks about her support for a drive to unionize the company's fulfillment center in Bessemer, Ala., during an interview in Birmingham, Ala., on Thursday, March 10, 2022. Workers are voting for a second time on a labor push at the warehouse after the National Labor Relations Board ordered a do-over election upon determining that Amazon unfairly influenced an initial vote in 2021. (AP Photo/Jay Reeves)

Amazon, union organizers face off again in Alabama

By Anne D'Innocenzio and Haleluya Hadero and Jay Reeves - Associated Press

Court dismisses D.C. attorney general’s antitrust lawsuit against Amazon

By Ryan Lovelace - The Washington Times