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Citi Research said in a note to clients that Amazon should split the company into separate retail and Amazon Web Services companies to avoid regulation, according to a report.

Amazon received a patent in 2016 for a system which would place employees in cages to maintain robots. According to the Boston Herald, “Illustrations that accompany the patent, which was granted by the U.S. Patent and Trademark office in 2016,

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) threw some not-so-subtle shade at Amazon and its CEO Jeff Bezos on Wednesday when he introduced a bill that would allow the government to charge big corporations for the federal welfare programs its low-income workers use.

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and his wife MacKenzie made a $10 million donation to a Super PAC aiming to help military veterans run for elected office.

Citizens of Gainesville, VA, are reportedly being made to pay for Amazon’s $172 million power line installation, after local protesters successfully fought the lines being installed through their properties and a Civil War battlefield.

A female Amazon employee was left homeless and living in a warehouse carpark after suffering an injury at a fulfillment center in Haslet, Texas. She says, “I work for the world’s richest man and I live in my car.”

Amazon’s senior vice president Russell Grandinetti has indicated that the online commerce giant remains unconcerned by its devastating impact on the retail sector and the millions of jobs that go with it. 

Easily the dumbest article I’ve read this year was one by a posh liberal columnist in a high end political journal explaining why freedom of speech wasn’t under threat in the West. Anyone who argued otherwise, he claimed, was a “grade A chocolate-coated plonker.”

Twitter has reportedly begun automatically locking accounts that change their display name to that of famous people such as Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos.

Amazon’s facial recognition tool, which the company sells to government agencies and other customers, reportedly misidentified 28 members of Congress as police suspects.

President Donald Trump dismissed reports he was privately frustrated with North Korea’s slow progress on denuclearization, insisting he was “very happy.”

Billionaire Jeff Bezos’s Washington Post is requesting Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross “eliminate” the citizenship question that has been added to the 2020 Census. 

Amazon, the online retailing giant founded by Jeff Bezos, is fast approaching capturing 50 percent of the U.S. e-commerce market, according to data research firm eMarketer. 

Amazon is buying online pharmacy company PillPack for an undisclosed amount. Its stock rose by around 2.5 percent, adding around $20 billion to its value-or ten times what analysts think Amazon paid for PillPack.

“I think a really long strike would be a great idea,” the president wrote on Twitter. “Employees would get more money and we would get rid of Fake News for an extended period of time!”

Over 400 Washington Post employees signed an open letter asking Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, who also owns the newspaper, for better pay and benefits.

The nation’s 800,000 warehouse workers have won a 9.4 percent pay increase amid President Donald Trump’s pro-American migration policy, forcing Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos to raise wages for his many warehouse employees.

Amazon warehouse employees have been known to reportedly urinate in trash cans to avoid being scolded over bathroom breaks, which are frowned upon at the company.

“AWS had the unusual advantage of a seven-year head start before facing like-minded competition,” Bezos said in a statement.

Former FBI Director James Comey is set to speak at Amazon HQ in Seattle, Washington, on Monday to discuss his new book, A Higher Loyalty.

Wealthy Americans, specifically corporates elites — like Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Apple CEO Tim Cook, the GOP billionaire megadonors the Koch brothers, and Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos — are determined to continue the wage-crushing mass legal immigration levels of the past few decades.

The CATO Institute’s Ryan Bourne has taken to the pages of a small UK paper to slam President Trump’s approach to multinational giant Amazon, though Bourne’s “analysis” admits he doesn’t know basic business terms.

The editors of the Jeff Bezos-owned Washington Post say President Trump’s tight labor market – which is delivering historic wage increases and job opportunities to American workers – is “reaching crisis proportions.”

If President Donald Trump is looking for a way to clip Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’s wings, blocking a massive contract with the Pentagon could be one way to do it.

Sunday on CNN’s “Reliable Sources,” Washington Post senior editor Marc Fisher said President Donald Trump attacks Amazon because he has a “jealousy issue” with Jeff Bezos being number one on Forbes’ list of billionaires. Fisher said, “You can make the

In a Saturday morning tweet, President Donald Trump wrote that the far-left Washington Post should register as a lobbyist for the online mega-retailer Amazon.

Tech giant Amazon has dumped two top D.C. lobbying powerhouses, Akin Gump and Patton Boggs, to replace them with two lobbyists who left the now-defunct Podesta Group in the wake of special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe ending the organization.

A pathway is emerging for President Donald Trump to rectify the sweetheart deal that Jeff Bezos’s Amazon has with the United States Postal Service (USPS), Breitbart News has learned.

Shares of Amazon fell by more than 7 percent Wednesday morning after Axios reported that President Trump “hates the company.”  

In an article Wednesday, Bloomberg claimed “Amazon” has become a verb, with “Amazoned” now meaning “to have your business crushed because the company got into your industry.”

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has announced that he is building a 500-foot tall clock inside a West Texas mountain.

Online retail giant Amazon, owned by Jeff Bezos who also owns the Washington Post, has settled with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for $1.2 million after an agency investigation revealed the company was selling illegal pesticides.

Morale among employees of grocery giant Whole Foods has cratered after Amazon owner Jeff Bezos bought the chain and instituted new stocking and employee management policies, a report says.

As the union representing Washington Post reporters attempts to negotiate for higher salaries and retirement plans, the Post told the union they should be happy they have jobs thanks to Jeff Bezos.

Amazon has narrowed the future location of its second headquarters, called “HQ2,” to 20 cities. 19 cities in America and Toronto, Canada, remain in the running for the $5 billion project.

Billionaire Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has announced that he will donate $33 million to create college scholarships for 1,000 Illegal Immigrants