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The move comes as Amazon.com's overall revenue growth is slowing, and it's looking for new ways to reignite sales.

Emergency diesel generators are providing power to critical safety systems at the facility, but they have only enough fuel for 48 hours.

Some rights activists have voiced concerns that the ban could increase Islamophobia in a country where violence and hate speech against Muslims have increased in recent years.

Cory Booker is the new mayor of one of the nation's largest majority black cities. Booker says he hopes to be among the new generation of African-American leaders known for being dynamic innovators.

A small Chinese town, with about 200 factories and 20,000 migrant workers, produces 60 percent of the world's supply of buttons. But Qiaotou's manufacturers are victims of their own success — cannibalizing one another's businesses with cutthroat prices.

It is a basic truth in any counterinsurgency campaign: It is possible to win all the battles and still lose the war. Three years into the Iraq war, the U.S. military admits it has learned that the hard way. At Fort Irwin, soldiers are trained in new counterinsurgency tactics in an attempt to turn the tide of the war.

Iran is not expected to acquiesce to a United Nations deadline Wednesday to halt uranium production. A key Iranian official is in Vienna to meet with the director of the International Atomic Energy Agency. The IAEA says Iran could be ready to enrich uranium on an industrial scale in six months to a year.

When Afghan President Hamid Karzai appointed Abdul Jabar Sabet as attorney general last summer, Afghans had high hopes that this Pashtun lawyer from Montreal would end government corruption. But 11 months later, Afghans say corruption and crime levels are worse than ever.

The U.S. attorneys fired by the Justice Department last year describe their former leaders at Justice and the White House as "selfish," "self-serving" and "inept" in written testimony to the House Judiciary Committee.

Retail sales in the United States rose 1.4 percent in May — the largest amount in 16 months, according to a Commerce Department report released on Wednesday. That is double the increase that analysts had expected.