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The piece describes a "bruising workplace" at the Seattle-based company, where work-life boundaries are willfully eroded.

More shoppers are expected to make purchases online this holiday season, and Amazon is expected to claim 50 cents of every dollar spent on the Internet.

Despite progress that's been made in Brazil, deforestation is increasing in the other 40 percent of the rainforest. The problem is particularly serious in Bolivia, where a swath of trees two-thirds the size of Delaware is cleared each year.

Amazon.com is launching its own online TV show to sell books, music and movies. With comedian Bill Maher as the host, the Internet company's weekly Amazon Fishbowl hopes to make its mark in the late-night talk show landscape with interviews of artists and authors.

The European Union's antitrust arm will evaluate Amazon's role as both a retailer and a marketplace for others. One focus will be on Amazon's use of data collected from third-party sellers.

Amazon has received a fair amount of bad press lately over its long-running dispute with the Hachette publishing house. So Monday's announcement of a deal with Simon & Schuster took some industry watchers by surprise.

Amazon could rake in an estimated $11 billion by the time its Prime Day promotion ends on Wednesday.

California lawmakers have passed a first-of-its-kind legislation that targets Amazon and other large warehouses. The bill, opposed by retail and business groups, now heads to the governor's office.

Cities across the U.S. and Canada will be making their final pitches Thursday to Amazon - begging for a chance to become the new second headquarters. The prize winner will get 50,000 high-paying jobs.

Ospreys are found all over the world, but when the temperature drops, the birds head for the tropics. Sam Evans-Brown of New Hampshire Public Radio reports on a project that tracks them.