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Lifestyle

Amazon to rebuild Illinois warehouse after deadly tornado

Six Amazon employees working at the 1.1 million square foot facility in Edwardsville, Illinois were killed in the building's collapse on Friday, while another individual remains hospitalized with serious injuries after tornados ripped through the region.

Politics

Amazon workers in Alabama can have second union vote, NLRB says

Amazon workers in Bessemer, Alabama, will get another vote on whether to form a union, thanks to a decision from a National Labor Relations Board official who determined that the e-commerce giant improperly interfered in the first vote which took place earlier this year.

Technology

Walmart rolls out driverless trucks for deliveries of online orders

Since August, Walmart and autonomous vehicle startup Gatik have deployed fully autonomous trucks without a safety driver for a daily, seven-mile delivery route between a "dark store", or fulfillment center, and a Neighborhood Market retail store in Bentonville, Arkansas, where the retailer's headquarters is located.