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FILE - In this April 9, 2020 file photo, employees observe social distancing due to coronavirus, at the entrance of Amazon, in Douai, northern France.A French court has ordered Amazon to stop buying, storing or delivering non-essential goods for the next month to protect its employees from the virus. The emergency ruling Tuesday requires Amazon to evaluate health risks at all its facilities nationwide and negotiate new safety measures with worker representatives, according to lawyers for unions that launched the legal proceedings. (AP Photo/Michel Spingler, File)

French court orders Amazon to suspend non-essential sales

By ANGELA CHARLTON - Associated Press

People passing a coronavirus graffiti by street artist 'Uzey' showing Spiderman with a protection mask on a wall in Hamm, Germany, on Easter Monday, April 13, 2020. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)

A pause on Wall Street; furloughs ramp up, travel winds down

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Fire crews put out blaze inside Amazon warehouse in Phoenix

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In this Thursday, March 26, 2020 photo, Tori Wentz, left, gives her son Ricky, 11, who is blind, deaf and intellectually disabled, a kiss outside their West Knoxville, Tenn. home. A former nurse, Wentz adopted Ricky, a native of Ghana, six years ago. (Caitie McMekin/The Tennessean via AP)

Social isolation during pandemic strains social work

By ANITA WADHWANI and The Tennessean - Associated Press

FILE - In this April 1, 2020, file photo, Atlanta Braves field manager Tyler Lenz walks across the covered home plate at Truist Park in Atlanta. There are no sponsored power plays at the moment. No doughnut races in the fourth quarter. No calls to the bullpen presented by phone companies. While the coronavirus pandemic circles the world, sports business executives are having conversations about lucrative advertising and marketing contracts with no games on the horizon. (Curtis Compton/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP, File)

Coronavirus shutdown presents challenges for teams, sponsors

By JAY COHEN - Associated Press

Big Ben's clock tower and the London Eye ferris wheel stand in the distance as the area around Royal Festival Hall is very quiet in London, Wednesday, April 8, 2020. The new coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms for most people, but for some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness or death. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)

Housing market chills, layoffs, companies boost virus fight

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

Nursing home resident who died had asked Alexa for help

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Little Rock official: City approved Amazon deal

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FILE - In this Thursday, March 19, 2020 file photo, people stand in an aisle of empty shelves in a supermarket in London, amid panic-buying due to the coronavirus outbreak. A pandemic forcing everyone to stay home could be the perfect moment for online grocery services. In practice, they've been struggling to keep up with a surge in orders, highlighting their limited ability to respond to an unprecedented onslaught of demand. After panic buying left store shelves stripped of staples like pasta, canned goods and toilet paper, many shoppers quickly found online grocery delivery slots almost impossible to come by, too. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, File)

Online grocery services struggle to meet spike in demand

By KELVIN CHAN - Associated Press

SXSW partners with Amazon to put its film festival online

By JAKE COYLE - Associated Press

Interior view of the TCF Center, Wednesday, April 1, 2020 in Detroit, built to accommodate an overflow of patients with the coronavirus. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers began construction at the TCF Center on Tuesday to create a quarantined hospital setting with 1,000 beds as the pandemic spreads rapidly in the city. The Corps will adapt more than 250,000 square feet of the center on two separate floors for the additional hospital beds and medical personnel stations. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)

Michigan virus cases top 9,300; new ventilators put to work

By ED WHITE and DAVID EGGERT - Associated Press

WarnerMedia names former Hulu chief Jason Kilar CEO

By JAKE COYLE - Associated Press

FILE - In this March 30, 2020 file photo, workers at Amazon's fulfillment center in Staten Island, N.Y., gather outside to protest work conditions in the company's warehouse in New York. Amazon fired a worker who staged the walkout to demand greater protection against the new coronavirus, saying the employee himself flaunted distancing rules and put others at risk. The decision prompted a rebuke from New York Attorney General Letitia James, who called on the National Labor Relations Board to investigate. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews, File )

Amazon fires warehouse worker who staged walkout

By ALEXANDRA OLSON and MAE ANDERSON - Associated Press

FILE - In this March 30, 2020 file photo, workers at Amazon's fulfillment center in Staten Island, N.Y., gather outside to protest work conditions in the company's warehouse in New York. Amazon fired a worker who staged the walkout to demand greater protection against the new coronavirus, saying the employee himself flaunted distancing rules and put others at risk. The decision prompted a rebuke from New York Attorney General Letitia James, who called on the National Labor Relations Board to investigate. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews, File )

Christian Smalls, Amazon worker, fired after leading coronavirus walkout

By Alexandra Olson and Mae Anderson - Associated Press

Indiana woman’s lead testing company gets clients nationwide

By LONDON GIBSON - Associated Press

A sign is lit on the facade of an Amazon fulfillment center, Thursday, March 19, 2020, on Staten Island in New York. The company plans to hire another 100,000 new workers in their fulfillment centers to fill increased customer demand during the coronavirus outbreak in which many workers are working from home an discouraged from going out. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)

Amazon pressed over coronavirus safety measures by lawmakers led by Bernie Sanders, Ilhan Omar

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times

FILE - This undated electron microscope image made available by the U.S. National Institutes of Health in February 2020 shows the virus that causes COVID-19. The sample was isolated from a patient in the U.S. Some political leaders are hailing a potential breakthrough in the fight against COVID-19: simple pin-prick blood tests or nasal swabs that can determine within minutes if someone has, or previously had, the virus. But some scientists have challenged their accuracy. (NIAID-RML via AP)

Virus test results in minutes? Scientists question accuracy

By ARITZ PARRA and CIARÁN GILES and JILL LAWLESS - Associated Press

Amazon said Tuesday, March 17, 2020, that it will only accept from suppliers shipments of cleaning equipment, medical supplies and household goods at its warehouses for next three weeks to fill surging demand of those items.(AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)

Amazon bans shipment of non-essential goods, limits to medical supplies, household goods

By Joseph Pisani - Associated Press

Amazon said Tuesday, March 17, 2020, that it will only accept from suppliers shipments of cleaning equipment, medical supplies and household goods at its warehouses for next three weeks to fill surging demand of those items.(AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)

More wipes, no jeans: Amazon limits shipments to warehouses

By JOSEPH PISANI - Associated Press