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Amazon workers at a warehouse on Staten Island, N.Y., voted to form the company's first union in the United States.

The Federal Communications Commission's proposal would let Web companies pay for faster access. But entrepreneurs, like Reddit's co-founder, are wondering how they would have fared with such rules.

The move comes after German investigators discovered a second citizen suspected of spying for the U.S. Renee Montagne talks to James Bamford, who writes about U.N. intelligence agencies and the NSA.

Amazon says it will abandon plans to open one of its headquarters in New York. The announcement came abruptly, after New York leaders spent months campaigning for the facility.

The UN agency that supplies the basic needs for Palestinian refugees may not be able to meet December payroll for 30,000 teachers, doctors and social workers across the Mideast. The agency serves an ever-increasing number of refugees, the descendants of the Palestinians uprooted in 1948.

In what it called an "unlikely" string of events, Amazon says Alexa heard background conversation and misconstrued it as very specific directives.

A proposed law in France prevents online booksellers like Amazon from pricing books at deep discounts. It's the French government's latest effort to protect the country's many independent bookshops.

David Baron examines why ongoing threats to the world's largest tropical forest now are receiving considerably less public attention than previously.

In reaction to a declining domestic marketplace, Avon, the world's largest cosmetic company, and other U.S. businesses have targeted a more global audience. The strategy has definitely worked for Avon, last year they made four-and-a-half billion dollars in profit from sales in 125 countries. One town on the Amazon has no doctor or dentist, but the 3,000 residents are served by six Avon representatives.

Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks with Gustavo Faleiros about the unprecedented destruction of the Amazon forest and what it might mean for both Brazil and regional security.