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The article shares the authors' views on how U.S. government employees became sales representatives for the firearms industry and have contributed to the export of American gun culture. Topics discussed include the Department of Commerce's hosting of people at the Shooting, Hunting and Outdoor Trade (SHOT) Show as part of its International Buyer Program, the partnership between the National Shooting Sports Foundation and the department, and the rise in the approval of firearms export licenses.

The article reports on the presidential election in Brazil to be held on October 2, 2022. It discusses the candidacy of incumbent President Jair Bolsonaro under the Liberal Party and former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva under the Workers' Party, and explores their chances of winning the election. Also cited are politics and government, and the social and economic conditions in Brazil.

The article focuses on the Brazilian Amazon and how it is reaching a point of no return as of August 2021. Topics include the deforestation of the Brazilian state of Rondônia and how it has impacted climate change, the policies of President Jair Bolsonaro, and the work of the Ministry of Agriculture.

(Bloomberg) -- The management team at Brazilian retailer Americanas SA told its external auditor and internal auditing committee as late as December 2022 that there were no supply-chain financing operations taking place at the firm. At the same time, executives gave the securities regulator CVM conflicting information, and a central bank system showed the account registering supply chain financing at the firm had ballooned to almost 17 billion reais ($3.2 billion). [Extracted from the article]

The World Sees Brazil's Election as a Climate Flashpoint. Unlike Bolsonaro, Lula clearly sees the immense value in protecting the Amazon, but he may not be able to do things much differently if prices, inequality, and violence keep rising. Bolsonaro and Lula are larger-than-life characters with troubled histories and global name recognition nearly comparable to Donald Trump and Hugo Chávez, and their contest comes with high stakes for just about every creature on Earth. But it was Lula's support for land-redistribution groups such as the Landless Workers Movement, known by its Portuguese initials MST, that is at the root of those vitriolic billboards scattered across Amazon states. [Extracted from the article]

The letter focuses on labor violations mentioned in the Reporter Brasil report, including at orange and soybean producers in Brazil that allegedly feed the McDonald's supply chain, while also mentioning environmental concerns. (Bloomberg) -- McDonald's Corp. has ties to deforestation and labor abuses in Brazil's Pantanal wetlands and in the Amazon rainforest, which plays a crucial role in regulating the world's climate, according to a report published Wednesday by Reporter Brasil, an independent research group focused on environmental and labor issues. [Extracted from the article]

Activist groups including Friends of the Earth started pressuring the bank to abandon the loan last year, alleging that the IDB credit line would violate the bank's sustainability policies. (Bloomberg) -- A $200 million loan for Marfrig Global Foods SA has fallen apart amid growing concern that Brazil's second-biggest beef producer is fueling deforestation in the Amazon. [Extracted from the article]

(Bloomberg Businessweek) -- In April, lawmakers in the Brazilian state of Rondônia gathered for a hasty vote in a squat cube of a building that had sat largely empty for months. Bolsonaro's government has used the pandemic as cover to clamp down on access to public information related to land grabs, and Rondônia state has been among the most aggressive in locking away its documents. In recent years, Bolsonaro put the Ministry of Agriculture in charge of the environmental regulator, cut firefighting and management budgets, reversed plans to protect large swaths of indigenous lands, and proposed opening up indigenous lands to mining. "All that land that's been cleared in the Amazon, the law allowed it", says Luiz Antônio Nabhan Garcia, Bolsonaro's land-policy czar. [Extracted from the article]

(Bloomberg) -- Meatpacking powerhouses like JBS SA and Marfrig Global Foods SA have borne the brunt of watchdog efforts to root out illegal deforestation in Brazil's beef industry. But a new report is transferring attention further down the supply chain, seeking to tie French supermarket giants Carrefour SA and Casino Guichard-Perrachon SA, plus a company controlled by Advent International Corp., to the destruction of the Amazon. Five of those companies - Grupo Pao de Acucar, Carrefour, Marfrig, Minerva, and JBS - say they have systems in place to monitor direct suppliers and are working to make the checks even more robust. [Extracted from the article]

(Bloomberg) -- A few feeder farms to some of Brazil's top beef producers have used slave labor, according to a new report, adding urgency to government and corporate promises to clean up the meat supply chain. These farms represent a tiny fraction of the hundreds of thousands of direct and indirect suppliers to both JBS and Minerva. [Extracted from the article]

(Bloomberg) -- Brazil's Amazon region has suffered more deforestation this year than any in the past decade. In its 2019 annual report, JBS announced that DNV-GL, a Norwegian social and environmental auditor, had confirmed that 100% of the cattle it acquired from the Amazon were compliant with zero-deforestation commitments made in 2009 among companies, public prosecutors, and groups such as Greenpeace. [Extracted from the article]

Brazil posted record Covid-19 deaths and cases, while also announcing further reopenings all the same. Brazil, Latin America's biggest nation and economy, registered some 69,000 new cases and 1,595 deaths. [Extracted from the article]

Brazil posted record Covid-19 deaths and cases, while also announcing further reopenings all the same. Brazil, Latin America's biggest nation and economy, registered some 69,000 new cases and 1,595 deaths. [Extracted from the article]

(Bloomberg) -- Brazilian coronavirus cases topped 2 million, and Mexico overtook Chile to become one of Latin America's biggest hot spots. Chile is the world's biggest copper producer, and Brazil is a top iron-ore miner. [Extracted from the article]

(Bloomberg) -- Brazil's Covid-19 infections passed the 1 million mark with no consistent strategy in place to halt the spread of the virus in Latin America's biggest economy. Brazil is on track to surpass the U.S. as the country with the world's deadliest outbreak, according to the University of Washington's Institution for Health Metrics and Evaluation. [Extracted from the article]

(Bloomberg) -- When a top World Health Organization official this week declared Latin America the new epicenter for Covid-19, few experts in the region needed to be persuaded. Demographic giants Brazil and Mexico are posting among the fastest growth rates and logging daily death records. In a working paper published last month by the U.S. National Bureau of Economic Research, Brazil and Mexico showed the third- and fourth-highest levels of respondents in 58 countries saying they don't trust their governments to keep them safe. [Extracted from the article]

(Bloomberg) -- Brazil is now the world's fastest-growing coronavirus hotspot, accounting for 13% of all new cases globally in the past week. Emerging markets now account for the five fastest growing coronavirus hotspots, with Brazil leading the pack followed by India and Saudi Arabia. [Extracted from the article]

(Bloomberg) -- Brazil is now the world's fastest-growing coronavirus hotspot, accounting for 13% of all new cases globally in the past week. Emerging markets now account for the five fastest growing coronavirus hotspots, with Brazil leading the pack followed by India and Saudi Arabia. [Extracted from the article]

(Bloomberg) -- Latin American airlines announced a fresh round of flight cuts that will reduce travel on the continent to a trickle, raising the pressure on governments to help prop up the ailing industry. Azul SA further cut its capacity to 90% of its normal flow through the end of April, and Avianca Holdings SA suspended all operations in Colombia until at least mid-April. [Extracted from the article]

Woman Compiling MeToo Names Says They're "Tip of the Iceberg" Temin's list of those accused of misdeeds passed 900 this week To make her list, a person has to be mentioned in at least seven news articles as accused of behavior that includes sexual harassment, assault, abuse or rape and condoning and/or helping to hide such behavior. [Extracted from the article]

Battlefield is a first-person shooter game, known for its realistic depiction of combat, and is one of EA's biggest franchises. In a nod to the remarkable success of the every-man-for-himself shooter game Fortnite, EA said on June 9 it would include a battle-royale mode in the upcoming Battlefield V. Fortnite, made by closely held Epic Games, has become a cultural phenomenon since its release last year, attracting more than 125 million players worldwide and causing the video-game industry to rethink its game designs and business models. [Extracted from the article]

The owner of MoviePass Inc., the hard-pressed movie-theater ticket subscription service, is facing more upheaval as a board member resigned after alleging management wasn't forthcoming with information about finances and operations. Schramm was a member of the company's audit committee, the compensation committee, the nominating and corporate governance committee and the pricing committee. [Extracted from the article]

President Donald Trump advocated for the heads of CNN and NBC News to be fired on Thursday morning, saying on Twitter that both media outlets were biased against him. "The hatred and extreme bias of me by @CNN has clouded their thinking and made them unable to function", Trump said in a post on Twitter. [Extracted from the article]

David Wells will help choose successor and oversee transition Netflix Inc. Chief Financial Officer David Wells will step down after eight years on the job, during which the streaming service grew into an entertainment giant that spends more on movies and TV shows than the biggest Hollywood studios. [Extracted from the article]

The New York Times tumbled by the most in almost four years as a continued slowdown in online-only subscribers fueled concern that even top newspapers are struggling to navigate the increasingly digital world. Investors had bet that the Times' digital subscription growth could pick up the slack for falling sales of print papers and declining advertising revenue. [Extracted from the article]

Tracker of TV habits announces CEO to retire, strategic review Nielsen Holdings Plc lost about a quarter of its market value Thursday after cutting its profit forecasts and saying its chief executive officer will retire, plunging the consumer-data giant into upheaval. [Extracted from the article]

General Electric Co.'s chief executive officer for Latin America was arrested in Brazil as part of a corruption probe into an alleged health-care cartel that operated for more than two decades. GE's press office in Brazil confirmed the arrest Wednesday, but said GE is not the target of the investigations. [Extracted from the article]

Macau gaming revenue rises 12.5% in June, missing estimates Casino gross gaming revenue in the world's biggest gambling hub in June rose just 12.5 percent, below the 18 percent median estimate of eight analysts surveyed by Bloomberg. [Extracted from the article]

AT&T Inc. agreed to buy online ad exchange AppNexus as Chief Executive Officer Randall Stephenson aims to turn the TV-and-wireless giant into a media conglomerate following its $85 billion acquisition of Time Warner Inc. AppNexus, which runs a global advertising marketplace that matches ads to users' viewing interests, will become part of AT&T advertising and analytics, according to a statement Monday. [Extracted from the article]

The company operates an online ad exchange and could help AT&T challenge Google and Facebook Inc. for a bigger piece of the market. "A company like AppNexus would likely enhance its ability to offer ads, but I'm skeptical about advertising significantly changing AT&T", he said. [Extracted from the article]

Takeover speculation sent shares of Lions Gate Entertainment Corp. up the most in almost five months on Wednesday, while Discovery Inc. -- another potential media target -- climbed as much as 4.7 percent. John Malone, a legendary cable industry dealmaker, owns stakes in both Lions Gate and Discovery, adding to speculation they could be potential targets. [Extracted from the article]

Shareholders urged to vote for Disney bid in July 10 meeting Last week, Comcast confirmed its desire to outbid Disney for the Fox operations, sending a signal to Fox investors that they may not want to rush to accept a deal. [Extracted from the article]

Images and news reports from Brazil over the past week depict a chaotic scene marked by gas shortages and gridlocked roadways. Paulo Oliveira, a truck driver dropping off condiments at restaurants Tuesday morning, says he's running on fumes and won't be able to make deliveries past today unless he gets more gas. [Extracted from the article]

Comcast "is considering, and is in advanced stages of preparing, an offer for the business that Fox has agreed to sell Disney", the company said in a statement. Like a Comcast deal for Fox's assets, the AT&T proposal is an example of a large TV distributor attempting to own a TV programmer -- what's known as a vertical merger. [Extracted from the article]

Manby's departure is latest management shift in turnaround bid SeaWorld Chairman Yoshikazu Maruyama said on a conference call with investors that the board and Manby decided that this was a good time for an executive transition. [Extracted from the article]

Deal gives U.S. company one of region's biggest fiber networks GTT also picks up 15 data centers, boosting its cloud storage and data-exchange holdings in Europe. The purchase price tops the 1.65 billion-euro value that insiders estimated Interoute could be worth in October. [Extracted from the article]

About 6,500 employees have until Feb. 14 to take package Shaw Communications Inc., the Canadian telecommunications company, offered buyouts to about 6,500 employees. [Extracted from the article]

Profits in gambling enclave surge with newest casino property Wynn Resorts Ltd. plans to expand its newest property on Macau's Cotai Strip after the project helped the company report better-than-expected earnings last quarter. [Extracted from the article]