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NPR's Richard Harris reports that archaeologists have discovered the remains of a previously unknown society that apparently thrived in caves in the Amazon about 11,000 years ago. Researchers unearthed artifacts of the culture in a cave in what is now Brazil. The discovery raises new questions about how the Americas were peopled.

Jennifer Niessen from member station KPLU in Seattle reports on a financial analyst from First Boston who posed as a temp to infiltrate on-line retailer Amazon.com. He succeeded in learning about the company's financial health, but his plan raises questions about professional ethics.

NPR's Wendy Kaufman reports that online retailer Amazon.com's decision to lay off about 15 percent of its staff may be an indicator that the company's last practice of putting growth before profit is coming to an end.

At a convention of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters this week, the union announced plans to create a special division focused on organizing Amazon workers across the country.

Amazon's unmatched promise of 50,000 well-paying jobs has red carpets rolling out across the U.S. — but also some soul-searching. How much should communities subsidize wealthy American corporations?

Although the company has unionized workers in Europe, it has held off organizing efforts here. About 6,000 workers at an Amazon facility in Alabama can cast a mail-in ballot starting Feb. 8.

A trip through the Mobile-Tensaw Delta offers a little bit of everything, from iris fields and gators, to Civil War history and the wreck of the last known ship to bring enslaved Africans to America.

Director James Jacoby catalogs the reach of the tech giant in his new PBS Frontline documentary, Amazon Empire. "So much power is pooled into the hands of one company and one man," he says.

3M has agreed to pay $6 billion to vets and service members who suffered hearing loss due to faulty earplugs. The quarter million people who filed claims must decide if they'll join the settlement.

Amazon is working on a whittled-down list of cities where it might build the second headquarters. Among the bidders, Washington, D.C., stands out for competing against two of its next-door neighbors.