Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has faced criticism since killing a Washington Post endorsement of Kamala Harris in the election against Donald Trump.

Left-wing Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin has resigned from the embattled paper and will join a new publication, Fox News Digital has confirmed.

The Washington Post lost another long-standing writer as the newspaper has continued to shed staff after billionaire owner Jeff Bazos began injecting himself into editorial decisions. Former conservative-turned-moderate Jennifer Rubin left the Post's opinion pages to join a new venture with legal expert and former ethics czar Norm Eisen.

Jeff Bezos, founder of Blue Origin which rivals SpaceX in the space industry, says he feels "very optimistic" about the incoming administration's space agenda.

Jeff Bezos told a media outlet he was "very optimistic" about incoming Donald Trump's administration for space projects, his company scrubbed a rocket launch.