内容摘要：“It’s almost like a smokescreen to hide their deficits,” Atchison said. “If someone feels insecure about their role or fears being overshadowed, they might resort to undermining others, gossiping or sabotaging projects to regain a sense of control or safety.”

“It’s almost like a smokescreen to hide their deficits,” Atchison said. “If someone feels insecure about their role or fears being overshadowed, they might resort to undermining others, gossiping or sabotaging projects to regain a sense of control or safety.”

Jassy vowed that Amazon would do everything it could to keep prices low, and while he acknowledged challenges ahead, he touted Amazon’s model of vast selection that would help it navigate this new climate.“When there are uncertain environments, customers tend to choose the provider they trust most,” Jassy told analysts. “Given our really broad selection, low pricing, and speedy delivery, we have emerged from these uncertain eras with more relative market segment share than we started, and better set up for the future.”

On Friday, Trump is also endingthat allowed low-value shipments from China to bypass duties, an exemption that had given an advantage to China-founded e-commerce firms, such as Shein and Temu.The new tariffs could benefit Amazon by increasing costs for its competitors. But it would also affect Chinese sellers who connect with American consumers on the company’s shopping platform. Furthermore, it could increase prices on a recently-launched online storefront that Amazon set up to ship low-cost products directly from China. The storefront, called

, was Amazon’s answer to Shein and Temu.Amazon said that it earned $17.13 billion, or $1.59 per share, for the quarter ended March 31. That’s up from $10.43 billion, or 98 cents a share, in the year-ago period.

Revenue rose 9% to $155.7 billion, up from $143.3 billion from the year-ago period.

Sales for Amazon Web services rose 17% to $29.3 billion during the fiscal first quarter.State and local health departments depend on federal money and support. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention sends about 80 percent of its budget to states and local communities and helps those departments with its expertise and other resources.

When the Trump administration pulled $11 billion from state and local health departments without warning in March, then laid off thousands of people at CDC a week later, public health leaders said the cuts delivered a serious blow to communities across the country.All eight employees dedicated to the mobile vaccine program in Mecklenburg were laid off. Nine disease intervention specialists in Columbus, Ohio, were let go as the department prepared to address a measles outbreak. Nashville had to end a program offering free flu and COVID tests.

Meanwhile, tobacco hotlines, early intervention programs for children who are deaf or hard of hearing, and programs to prevent drowning are all being affected in states and communities because CDC teams were laid off.A spokesman for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services said HHS is reorganizing what he said were “broken systems” and rejected “the implication that HHS has turned its back on urgent health threats.”