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Big-box banks: Congress’ plan to lower credit-card swipe fees pits retailers against banks

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Back-to-school supplies await shoppers at a store on Saturday, July 11, 2020, in Marlborough, Mass. School districts across America are trying to decide how to resume classes in the fall amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/Bill Sikes)

Reports find rise in back-to-school prices, spending

By Sean Salai - The Washington Times

Tucker Carlson, then-host of "Tucker Carlson Tonight," poses for photos in a Fox News Channel studio, March 2, 2017, in New York. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)

Tucker Carlson’s Twitter show inks ad deal with conservative shopping app

By Matt Delaney - The Washington Times

Britain's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, left, and Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, right, pose for a photo during a bilateral meeting on the sidelines of the NATO Summit in Vilnius, Lithuania, Wednesday, July 12, 2023. (Paul Ellis/Pool Photo via AP)

Live Updates | Zelenskyy hails ‘steps forward’ at NATO summit to help fight against Russian forces

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Amazon pushes back against Europe’s pioneering new digital rules

By Kelvin Chan - Associated Press

FILE - President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, right, poses for a picture with Colombia's President Gustavo Petro, at the Planalto Palace, in Brasilia, Brazil, Jan. 1, 2023. Lula met with Petro on Saturday, July 8, 2023, to build momentum for an upcoming summit on the Amazon rainforest and enhance efforts for its protection.(AP Photo/Eraldo Peres, File)

The presidents of Brazil and Colombia meet to boost cooperation ahead of Amazon summit

By Eleonore Hughes - Associated Press

Cattle graze on land recently burned and deforested by cattle farmers near Novo Progresso, Para state, Brazil, on Aug. 23, 2020. After four years of rising destruction in Brazil’s Amazon, deforestation dropped by 33.6% during the first six months of President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's term, according to government satellite data released Thursday, July 6, 2023. (AP Photo/Andre Penner, File)

In Lula’s first six months, Brazil Amazon deforestation dropped 34%, reversing trend under Bolsonaro

By Fabiano Maisonnave - Associated Press

In this Nov. 9, 2017, file photo, an American flag is flown next to the Chinese national emblem during a welcome ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. China called the U.S. arrogant and selfish on Friday, Dec. 21, 2018, after it charged two Chinese citizens with stealing trade secrets and other sensitive information from American government agencies and corporations. (AP Photo/Andy Wong, File)

Counterintelligence agency warns on Chinese spy law

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

In this April 17, 2019, file photo, online customer reviews for a product are displayed on a computer in New York. The Federal Trade Commission on Friday, June 30, 2023, proposed a new rule that would ban paying for reviews, suppressing honest reviews, selling fake social media engagement and more. The FTC noted that it already considers fake reviews and other deceptive actions to be unlawful — but that the new bans “may increase deterrence against these practices,” allow for civil penalties and help get financial compensation to victims, the agency said. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane, File)

Bogus online reviews are targeted by U.S. regulators with new, proposed bans

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An Amazon Prime delivery vehicle is seen in downtown Pittsburgh on March 18, 2020. The Federal Trade Commission sued Amazon on Wednesday for what it called a yearslong effort to enroll consumers without consent into its Prime program and making it difficult for them to cancel their subscriptions. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File)

Amazon is accused of enrolling consumers into Prime without consent and making it hard to cancel

By Haleluya Hadero - Associated Press

A truck arrives at the Amazon warehouse facility, in the Staten Island borough of New York, April 1, 2022. Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders has opened a Senate investigation into Amazon’s warehouse safety practices, the latest in a series of probes he’s initiated against big corporations in his role as chairman of a committee that oversees health and labor issues.(AP Photo/Eduardo Munoz Alvarez, File)

Sanders launches Senate probe into Amazon’s safety practices and asks workers to share stories

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Fatherhood Poster by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Children need their dads to survive in modern jungle

By Don Feder

Amazon drivers in southern California walk off job

By Brad Matthews - The Washington Times

Amazon’s $1.7 billion deal to buy Roomba maker iRobot gets U.K. approval

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In this photo released by Colombia's Armed Forces Press Office, soldiers and Indigenous men pose for a photo with the four Indigenous brothers who were missing after a deadly plane crash, in the Solano jungle, Caqueta state, Colombia, Friday, June 9, 2023. Colombian President Gustavo Petro said Friday that authorities found alive the four children who survived a small plane crash 40 days ago and had been the subject of an intense search in the Amazon jungle that held Colombians on edge. (Colombia's Armed Force Press Office via AP)

4 children survived a plane crash and 40 days alone in the Amazon jungle. The youngest is a baby

By Manuel Rueda - Associated Press

Big Tech hit with new allegations of spying, privacy violations

By Ryan Lovelace - The Washington Times

Amazon workers watch from the company's Day 1 building as other workers hold picket signs while participating in a walkout to protest the company's return-to-office policies, Wednesday, May 31, 2023, in Seattle. Organizers called attention to the climate impact of commutes, saying it runs counter to the company's "Climate Pledge" to be carbon neutral by the year 2040, as well as concerns about recent layoffs. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)

Amazon workers strike over climate, remote work concerns

By Vaughn Cockayne - The Washington Times

FILE - Amazon Echo and Echo Plus devices, behind, sit near illuminated Echo Button devices during an event by the company in Seattle, Sept. 27, 2017. In a vote Wednesday, May 31, 2023, the Federal Trade Commission is ordering Amazon to pay more than $30 million in fines over privacy violations involving its voice assistant Alexa and its doorbell camera Ring. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, File)

Amazon to pay $30 million over alleged Alexa, Ring privacy violations

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This artist rendering provided by Amazon shows the next phase of the company's headquarters redevelopment to be built in Arlington, Va. Amazon is asking Virginia for nearly $153 million in state incentive payments, which would be the first tranche of funds to be paid out since the tech giant agreed in 2018 to build a headquarters complex in the state. (NBBJ/Amazon via AP)

Amazon shows off pending HQ2 in Pentagon City

By Vaughn Cockayne - The Washington Times

Peacock will exclusively carry NFL playoff game in a first for streaming service

By Joe Reedy - Associated Press