Amazon picks Twitter fight with Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren amid union campaign
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Amazon is going on the offensive against prominent lawmakers amid the most significant union campaign in the history of the online retailer. On Friday, Amazon's official PR Twitter account, @amazonnews, slammed senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren for their ongoing criticism of the ecommerce company.
"There's a big difference between talk and action," Amazon tweeted. "@SenSanders has been a powerful politician in Vermont for 30 years and their min wage is still $11.75. Amazon's is $15, plus great health care from day one. Sanders would rather talk in Alabama than act in Vermont." Amazon also retweeted a comment by Dave Clark, the company's worldwide consumer CEO, who said Sanders "should save his finger wagging lecture until after he actually delivers in his own backyard."President Joe Biden said France was America's "first friend" at its founding and is one of its closest allies more than two centuries later as he was honored with a state visit Saturday by French President Emmanuel Macron aimed at showing off their partnership on global security issues and easing past trade tensions.
The Consumer Federal Protection Bureau last week launched an inquiry into what the agency is calling "junk fees in mortgage closing costs." These additional fees, involving home appraisal, title insurance and other services, have spiked in recent years and can add thousands of dollars to the final cost of buying a home.
Retired Maj. Gen. William Anders, the former Apollo 8 astronaut who took the iconic "Earthrise" photo showing the planet as a shadowed blue marble from space in 1968, was killed Friday when the plane he was piloting alone plummeted into the waters off the San Juan Islands in Washington state. He was 90.