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Conservatives have launched new initiatives aimed at removing "woke politics" from corporate boardrooms as the annual season of shareholder meetings winds down.

Sen. Marco Rubio, Florida Republican, is urging President Biden to prevent TikTok Shop from fully operating in the U.S. because of concerns that the Chinese platform poses potential threats to Americans' privacy and national security.

President Biden on Thursday met with a group of labor organizers at the White House, including a former Amazon worker who led the drive to unionize the online retailer's Staten Island facility.

Google said Wednesday it blocked more than 3.4 billion ads and suspended 5.6 million advertiser accounts in 2021 as part of new efforts to crack down on disinformation and scams.

Amazon workers employed at a Staten Island warehouse voted against forming a union Monday, an unexpected setback for the group of current and former employees who last month successfully created the company's first union at a different New York City warehouse.

The National Labor Relations Board on Monday began counting votes of Amazon warehouse workers seeking to form a second union in New York City.

Amazon is instituting a 5% fee to help combat rising inflation and fuel prices.

In his first letter to Amazon shareholders, CEO Andy Jassy offered a defense of the wages and benefits the company gives its warehouse workers while also vowing to improve injury rates inside the facilities.

When a scrappy group of former and current warehouse workers on Staten Island, New York, went head-to-head with Amazon in a union election, many compared it to a David and Goliath battle.

Amazon won a dismissal of an antitrust lawsuit brought by D.C. Attorney General Karl A. Racine that accused the retail giant of preventing third-party sellers from offering better prices and deals on other platforms.