Amazon is in talks to lease an entire 18-story building in the so-called Seaport District of South Boston, enough for 2,000 employees, according to the Boston Business Journal.
The planned expansion to Boston is irrespective of the so-called "second headquarters" that Amazon is dangling before various American cities.
Jennifer Ladd, 40, a high school history teacher in Darien, Connecticut, says she plans to walk out of school on April 20, which anti-gun activists have declared a day of action against gun violence.
Unless Congress bans so-called assault weapons, implements universal background checks, and takes other measures to protect schools, she says, she's walking.