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Cardinal Lorenzo Baldisseri, Secretary General of the Synod of Bishops, speaks during a press conference announcing a Synod of Bishops for the Pan-Amazon region, at the Vatican, Thursday, Oct. 3, 2019. The meeting, which opens on Oct. 6, will discuss social and environmental problems faced by the inhabitants of the Amazon, including the increasing rate of deforestation in the region. (AP Photo/Domenico Stinellis)

Vatican defends married priest proposal on Amazon agenda

By NICOLE WINFIELD - Associated Press

Pope Francis signs an autograph on a drum as he meets members of a Bavarian Orchestra from Augsburg, Germany, at the end of his weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2019. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

Vatican cardinal skeptical about married priests for Amazon

By NICOLE WINFIELD - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sept. 27, 2017, file photo, Amazon Echo and Echo Plus devices, behind, sit near illuminated Echo Button devices during an event announcing several new Amazon products by the company in Seattle. Users of Amazon's Alexa digital assistant can now request that recordings of their voice commands delete automatically. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, File)

Amazon offers a way to delete Alexa recordings automatically

By JOSEPH PISANI - Associated Press

Dave Limp, senior vice president for Amazon devices &amp; services, talks about Echo Buds, the tech company's new wireless earbuds product, Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2019, during an event in Seattle. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

Coming soon: Alexa in your ear and on your finger

By JOSEPH PISANI - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sept. 3, 2019, file photo, Brazilian soldier puts out fires at the Nova Fronteira region in Novo Progresso, Brazil. The fires that swept parts of the Amazon this year added to global worries about a warming climate, as well as the sense of urgency at the Climate Action Summit at the United Nations. (AP Photo/Leo Correa, File)

AP Explains: A look at Amazon fires as climate worries mount

By CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA - Associated Press

Illustration of Bill Maher by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

The left must stop ridiculing and denigrating fellow human beings

By Foster Friess

FILE - In this May 23, 2019, file photo, a Falcon 9 SpaceX rocket, with a payload of 60 satellites for SpaceX's Starlink broadband network, lifts off from Space Launch Complex 40 at Florida's Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, seen from Cocoa Beach, Fla. It’s a 21st century space race: Amazon, SpaceX and others competing to get into orbit and provide internet to the earth’s most remote places. (Malcolm Denemark/Florida Today via AP, File)

Can a new space race connect the world to the internet?

By TALI ARBEL - Associated Press

After Amazon packages found in cemetery, police deliver them

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Brazil's Minister of the Environment Ricardo Salles smiles for a photo during an interview with The Associated Press in Washington, Friday, Sept. 20, 2019. After facing international criticism for steeply rising rates of deforestation in the Amazon, Salles is visiting the U.S., France, Germany, and the United Kingdom to insist that there’s no big problem. (AP Photo/Jon Elswick

Brazil aims to deflect criticism over Amazon deforestation

By CHRISTINA LARSON - Associated Press

Amazon workers begin to gather in front of the Spheres, participating in the climate strike Friday, Sept. 20, 2019, in Seattle. A wave of climate change protests swept across the globe Friday, with hundreds of thousands of young people sending a message to leaders headed for a U.N. summit: The warming world can't wait for action. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

Amazon, other tech workers join Seattle climate rally

By GENE JOHNSON - Associated Press

FILE - In this Aug. 30, 2019 file photo, police and firefighters work to put out a fire in the Chiquitania forest on the outskirts of Robore, Bolivia. Fires have consumed more than 3.1 million hectares (12,000 square miles) of forests and grasslands in just over a month in Bolivia, according to an environmental group, with the blazes affecting the South American country’s Amazon region. (AP Photo/Juan Karita, File)

NGO: Forest fires in Bolivia burn Switzerland-sized area

Associated Press

Plans call for Amazon operations at Pontiac Silverdome site

Associated Press

This image released by 20th Century Fox shows Brad Pitt in a scene from &quot;Ad Astra,&quot; in theaters on Sept. 20. (Francois Duhamel/20th Century Fox via AP)

Review: A space odyssey with Brad Pitt in ‘Ad Astra’

By JAKE COYLE - Associated Press

Indigenous Tembe warrior Ronilson Tembe poses for a portrait on the Alto Rio Guama indigenous reserve as he waits for police to arrive with other members of his tribe in Para state, Brazil, Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2019. Tembe men sometimes daub themselves in traditional war paint and patrol the forest. They carry bows and arrows, but feel increasingly vulnerable as they brace for run-ins with illegal loggers. (AP Photo/Luis Andres Henao)

Amazon tribe in Brazil patrols territory, braces for fight

By LUIS ANDRES HENAO - Associated Press

Lesson learned: When in Barre use ‘Barre Gray’

By DAVID DELCORE - Associated Press

FILE - In this June 25, 2019, file photo a FedEx delivery truck is loaded by an employee on the street in downtown Cincinnati. FedEx reports financial results Tuesday, Sept. 17. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)

FedEx profit falls, company cites uncertainty over trade

By DAVID KOENIG - Associated Press

FILE - In this Nov. 24, 2012, file photo, a giant sculpture of Gollum, a character from &quot;The Hobbit,&quot; is displayed in the Wellington Airport. Amazon announced Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2019, it will film its upcoming television series &quot;The Lord of the Rings&quot; in New Zealand, marking a return of the orcs, elves and hobbits to the country they became synonymous with over the course of six movies directed by Peter Jackson. (AP Photo/Nick Perry,File)

Welcome to Orcland: Lord of the Rings to film in New Zealand

By NICK PERRY - Associated Press

Amazon to add workers, office space to Chicago Loop office

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

Whole Foods to cut health care for part-time workers

By BY JOSEPH PISANI - Associated Press

FILE - In this Thursday, July 18, 2019 file photo, European Antitrust Commissioner Margrethe Vestager talks during a news conference at the European Commission headquarters in Brussels. The European Union’s powerful competition chief has indicated she’s looking at expanding regulations on personal data, dropping an initial hint about how she plans to use new powers against tech companies. Margrethe Vestager said Friday, Sept. 13 while Europeans have control over their own data through the EU’s existing data privacy rules, they don’t address problems stemming from the way companies use other people’s data. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco, file)

EU competition chief hints at new data rules for tech firms

By KELVIN CHAN - Associated Press