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Every business wants your review. What’s with the feedback frenzy?

by James Doubek February 26, 2026February 26, 2026

Customers want to read reviews and businesses need reviews to attract customers. But the constant demand for reviews could be creating a feedback backlash, experts say.

An Amazon Prime delivery van sits parked near a Walmart store in California.

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Amazon dethrones Walmart as the world’s biggest company by sales

by Alina Selyukh February 19, 2026February 19, 2026

In a slow-motion race of two retail behemoths, Amazon’s trump card was its lucrative cloud-computing business.

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What has 11 questions and makes you feel smart? Our news quiz!

by Holly J. Morris October 31, 2025October 31, 2025

From monsters to politics and (maybe) everything in between, it’s the weekly news quiz.

An Amazon Prime delivery pedicab is parked on a Manhattan street. Amazon has agreed to settle with the U.S. government a lawsuit over its Prime membership program.

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Amazon to pay $2.5 billion to settle U.S. lawsuit that it ‘tricked’ people into Prime

by Alina Selyukh September 25, 2025September 25, 2025

Federal regulators say Amazon has agreed to pay a historic sum to resolve their allegations that its web designs manipulated millions of people into paying for Prime subscriptions, which were also purposefully hard to cancel. Affected shoppers are slated to receive payouts.

Amazon and the U.S. government begin oral arguments Tuesday in a case that focuses on how the company gets people to pay for its Prime membership program.

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Did Amazon trick people into paying for Prime? Federal case goes to trial

by Alina Selyukh September 23, 2025September 23, 2025

The U.S. government says Amazon manipulated people into signing up for Prime memberships that were purposefully hard to cancel. The company says its designs and disclosures follow industry standards.

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Colombia’s lone Amazon port faces drying river and rising tensions with Peru

by John Otis September 7, 2025September 7, 2025

Colombia’s only Amazon port town could soon be cut off from the river that keeps it alive. As drought and a shifting river spark a tense border dispute with Peru, locals are scrambling to adapt—and politicians are raising flags, literally.