Columbus Day is not one of the seven paid holidays Amazon gives its employees, according to its website. So its services will generally be available uninterrupted on Columbus Day, including shipping.

More than 500 years after it sank, the wreckage of Christopher Columbus' famous ship, the Santa Maria, might be sitting on at the bottom of the ocean near Haiti, The Independent reports.

Columbus Day has become one of the more controversial holidays in the US. A number of cities across America have already swapped it for Indigenous Peoples' Day. Detractors argue Genoese explorer ...