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A man is facing charges after police say he threatened an Amazon delivery driver with a gun in Brentwood.

This staple of Brazilian street food takes you on a journey through the flavors and textures of the nation's cuisine in each heaping bowlful.

Indigenous protesters on Friday tried to prevent a public hearing on the construction of a railway that is planned to run through their lands to carry grains to a northern port in the Amazon. The 1,000-km (620-mile) Ferrograo railway is backed by farmers and grain companies who say it would reduce reliance on roads and lower costs for transporting soy from the farm state of Mato Grosso to the river ports in the Amazon basin. But Munduruku and Kayapo Indigenous communities say they have not been consulted on a project that will affect their environment and cause deforestation.

The renowned chief from the Amazon rainforest and the Belgian filmmaker appeared to be close friends at this year's Cannes Film Festival. With his feathered crown and wooden lip plate, Chief Raoni of the Kayapo tribe is instantly recognizable the world over. Almost always in the background was a less familiar face, that of Jean-Pierre Dutilleux, whose documentary about Raoni was a 1979 Oscar nominee.

Alaska Airlines will inherit a cargo business for Amazon as part of its acquisition of Hawaiian Airlines. The post Alaska Airlines to fly Amazon packages after completing Hawaiian buy appeared first on FreightWaves.