Bezos bashes Biden over inflation, blaming stimulus spending
Amazon founder shot back after the president said inflation would be lower if corporations "paid their fair share."
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Amazon founder shot back after the president said inflation would be lower if corporations "paid their fair share."
"After relaxing some of its discipline systems in the first months of the COVID-19 pandemic, Amazon reimplemented its monitoring systems and production pressures in late 2020, and its injury rates rose substantially," the unions said.
Forbes' annual billionaires list reveals which big-money titan has the most money of them all.
Amazon employees at a New York City warehouse have voted in favor of unionizing for the first time in the tech giant's 27-year history. Amazon Labor Union interim president Chris Smalls joins CBS News' Lana Zak to talk about this historic victory and their next steps.
To meet rising demand, SpaceX plans three rideshare missions per year to give small satellites access to space.
Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin carried out its fourth manned trip to space, blasting off and landing in the West Texas desert. The 10-minute ride took the crew more than 60 miles up, where they enjoyed a few minutes of weightlessness.
The company has now launched four crewed New Shepard commercial space missions.
Jeff Bezos' space company Blue Origin launched a crew of six to the edge of space and back, in its fourth flight with people on board. The capsule touched down safely 10 minutes later at its West Texas launch site. CBS News' Anne-Marie Green and Vladimir Duthiers anchor coverage of the launch with CBS News space consultant William Harwood and Star Harbor senior adviser Alan Ladwig.
It's not yet clear who will replace the 28-year-old comedian on the flight.
William Shatner, who played "Star Trek" character Captain Kirk, became the oldest person to have flown in space Wednesday. Shatner joins "CBS Mornings" to discuss how the experience changed his perspective and what it was like to float in space.
The latest in a recent line of billionaire space enthusiasts blasted off last night along with three other amateur space travelers aboard a SpaceX rocket ship. Mark Strassman reports.
Methane is 85 times more powerful than carbon dioxide when it comes to planet-warming properties. Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk are contributing to an effort to monitor it leaking from oil and gas sites. Ben Tracy reports.
Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin is launching its second human flight on the New Shepard rocket this week. Crew members actor William Shatner, Blue Origin VP of mission and flight operations Audrey Powers, former NASA engineer Chris Boshuizen, and health care entrepreneur Glen de Vries join "CBS Mornings" to discuss their upcoming trip to the edge of space.
A group of 21 current and former Blue Origin employees are making serious allegations in an essay about the company's safety practices and workplace culture. In an interview you'll see only on “CBS Mornings,” Laurie Segall interviews one of the authors of the essay about her experiences at the Jeff Bezos-led company.
Dutch city won't change rules so Bezos' superyacht can pass under Rotterdam bridge, which isn't tall enough for the 417-foot vessel.
More people in the U.S. died of COVID-19 in 2021 than in 2020, driven in part by highly contagious variants. Vaccines became available, but hesitancy remained. Billionaires Jeff Bezos and Richard Branson raced into space. Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was sentenced in June in the death of George Floyd, and the nation once against reeled from mass shootings. CBS News' Michael George reviews the biggest national news stories of the year.
Michael Strahan and five others, including the daughter of astronaut Alan Shepard, launched into space on Saturday aboard a Blue Origin rocket. The civilian crew safely touched down back on Earth about 10 minutes after takeoff. Omar Villafranca reports.
Blue Origin prepares to launch a six-person crew to space on Saturday. Previous flights only had four crew members. This will be the third human flight for Jeff Bezos' company, the 19th overall, and it will cap a record year for space flight. Omar Villafranca reports from Van Horn, Texas.
Six passengers, including TV host Michael Strahan and Laura Shepard Churchley, the daughter of legendary astronaut Alan Shepard, launched aboard Blue Origin's New Shepard spacecraft for a 10-minute ride to space and back on Saturday, December 11, 2021. Watch how the mission unfolded.
Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin is launching its third sub-orbital passenger flight to the edge of space.
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Glen de Vries, an entrepreneur who recently flew to space with actor William Shatner, was killed in a plane crash in New Jersey.
Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos could help prevent millions from starving to death with small percentages of their individual net worths, the director of the World Food Programme says.
The privately-funded outpost will provide a destination in orbit after the International Space Station is retired.
On Sunday, British billionaire Richard Branson and a crew of five others soared into space onboard a Virgin Galactic rocket plane. Mark Strassmann reports.