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Bezos gives $5 million to nonprofits fighting homelessness

Associated Press

Driving a hard bargain for Amazon

By Deborah Simmons - The Washington Times

Jeff Bezos, Amazon founder and CEO, speaks at The Economic Club of Washington's Milestone Celebration in Washington, Thursday, Sept. 13, 2018. Bezos said that he is giving $2 billion to start the Bezos Day One Fund which will open preschools in low-income neighborhoods and give money to nonprofits that helps homeless families. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

Amazon considers New York, Virginia amid reports of HQ split

By Joseph Pisani, David Klepper and Alan Suderman - Associated Press

FILE - In this May 5, 2016, file photo, Jeff Bezos, the founder and CEO of Amazon.com, speaks in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington. Bezos said Thursday, Sept. 13, 2018, that he will start a $2 billion charitable fund to help homeless families and open new preschools in low-income neighborhoods. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Amazon’s Jeff Bezos to start $2 billion charitable fund

By SALLY HO and JOSEPH PISANI - Associated Press

Tucker Carlson, host of "Tucker Carlson Tonight," poses for photos in a Fox News Channel studio, in New York, Thursday, March 2, 2107. (AP Photo/Richard Drew) ** FILE **

Tucker Carlson is right: Conservatives should embrace the free market, not big business

By Larry O'Connor - The Washington Times

In this July 17, 2018 photo Robin Newgard, a service technician for Ingersoll Machine Tools, operates the Mongoose the machine that will manufacture cryogenic tanks and fairings in Rockford, Ill., for Blue Origin, the rocket company founded by Amazon boss Jeff Bezos. Ingersoll has built the largest machine of its kind in the world for Bezos, who will use the engineering marvel to build rockets to carry humans to the moon and maybe even Mars. It took three years to design and manufacture the Sasquatch-sized machine, which stands 51 feet tall, 136 feet long and 43 feet wide.(Arturo Fernandez/Rockford Register Star via AP)

EXCHANGE: Rockford-made machine to build parts for rockets

By ISAAC GUERRERO - Associated Press

Niels Wouters uses his Biometric Mirror as a means of revealing how facial recognition technology can be used to make personality judgments on others. Here, The Washington Times' online opinion editor, Cheryl Chumley, puts her own face to the test." (Courtesy of Niels Wouters)

Would you hire this face? Facial recognition technology says — maybe not.

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

In this image from video made available by Blue Origin, the company's New Shepard capsule lands during a test in West Texas on Wednesday, July 18, 2018. Once its booster separated, the capsule’s escape motor fired, lifting the spacecraft to 74 miles (119 kilometers) as part of a safety system intended to save lives once customers _ including space tourists _ climb aboard for suborbital hops. (Blue Origin via AP)

Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin launches spacecraft higher than ever

By MARCIA DUNN - Associated Press

President Donald Trump gives a thumbs up as he arrives on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, June 19, 2018, to rally Republicans around a GOP immigration bill. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

EDITORIAL: President Trump’s feud with Jeff Bezos threatens to cost everybody

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Pedestrians walk past the Amazon Spheres in downtown Seattle on the day of the grand opening of the geodesic domes, which will primarily serve as a working and gathering space for Amazon.com employees, Monday, Jan. 29, 2018, in Seattle. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

Striking Amazon ‘Spheres’ landmark opens in downtown Seattle

By SALLY HO - Associated Press

They studied Blue Apron to learn how to ship Maryland crabs

By THOMAS HEATH - Associated Press

In this Monday, Oct. 16, 2017, photo, Zavian Tate, a student at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, pushes a large Amazon Dash button, in Birmingham, Ala. The large Dash buttons are part of the city's campaign to lure Amazon's second headquarters to Birmingham. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)

Wooing Amazon with sun, fun … and giant buttons

By MATT O'BRIEN - Associated Press

Bob Woodward, left, talks with Carl Bernstein during the White House Correspondents' Dinner in Washington, Saturday, April 29, 2017. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

WHCA Nuclear Option

By Charles Hurt - The Washington Times

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos demonstrates the new Amazon Fire Phone during a launch event, in Seattle, in this June 18, 2014, file photo. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)

Jeff Bezos’ space company to build, launch rockets in Florida

By Marcia Dunn - Associated Press

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos demonstrates the new Amazon Fire Phone during a launch event, in Seattle, in this June 18, 2014, file photo. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)

Jeff Bezos defends Amazon’s workplace culture following brutal New York Times article

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

** FILE ** This Sept. 6, 2012, file photo shows Jeff Bezos, CEO and founder of Amazon, at the introduction of the new Amazon Kindle Fire HD and Kindle Paperwhite personal devices, in Santa Monica, Calif. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon, File)

Amazon vows 10,000 robots in warehouses by year’s end

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Smithsonian to fly drones for ‘future’ festival

Associated Press

This 1963 photo provided by NASA shows an F-1 Engine for the Saturn V S-IC (first) stage at Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. An undersea expedition spearheaded by Amazon.com CEO and founder Jeff Bezos with Jay Larsen, whose deep ocean surveying company, SL Hydrospheric LLC were tapped to find what he said were the F-1 engines that helped boost the Apollo 11 mission on July 16, 1969 located 14,000 feet deep in the Atlantic. (AP Photo/NASA)

Whitefish man honored for locating Apollo rockets

By TRISTAN SCOTT - Associated Press