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  • This June 7, 2021, image shows the headquarters of Girl Scouts of New Mexico Trails in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Rebecca Latham, CEO of Girl Scouts of New Mexico Trails, said her council had thousands of boxes left over at the end of the selling season in late spring, even though girls tried innovative selling methods like drive-thru booths and contact-free delivery. (AP Photo/Susan Montoya Bryan)Retail

    The Girl Scouts have millions of unsold cookie boxes as they struggle to navigate the pandemic

    By Dee-Ann Durbin and The Associated Press
  • Nate Mullins, a former bartender from Oak, Harbor, Wash., who quit his job last November after clashing with managers over enforcing mask rules, poses for a photo near a street mural Monday, May 17, 2021, in Mount Vernon, Wash. There’s a wild card in the push to return to post-pandemic life: many workers don’t want to return to the jobs they once had. Mullins’ unemployment checks don’t match what he was making at the bar, but they’re enough to get by while he looks for jobs that would provide health care and retirement benefits. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)Careers

    Changed by the pandemic, many workers are reluctant to return to their old jobs

    By Dee-Ann Durbin, Stephen Groves, and others
  • FILE – In this June 24, 2014 file photo, a giant Pride flag flies atop the Starbucks headquarters in celebration of Gay Pride Week in Seattle. More than 400 companies, including Starbucks, have signed on to support civil rights legislation for LGBTQ people that is moving through Congress, advocates said Tuesday, April 27, 2021. The Equality Act would amend existing civil rights law to explicitly include sexual orientation and gender identification as protected characteristics. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, File)Politics

    More than 400 businesses back LGBTQ rights act, according to advocacy group

    By Dee-Ann Durbin and The Associated Press
  • Jeffray Gardner, the owner of Marsatta Chocolate explains his artisan hand-crafted chocolates to new customer, Katherine Trontman at his company’s flagship store in Torrance, Calif., Sunday, March 28, 2021. Restaurants and delivery companies remain uneasy partners, haggling over fees and struggling to make the service profitable for themselves and each other. Gardner says he probably loses money on the one or two delivery orders he gets each day. But he’s still happy to work with delivery companies because they help him reach a wider audience. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)Tech

    Food delivery will continue to thrive after COVID restrictions ease, drawing out tensions between delivery apps and restaurants

    By Dee-Ann Durbin and The Associated Press
  • Bottles of Molson Coors Brewing Co. Blue Moon brand beer arranged in Dobbs Ferry, New York, U.S., on Saturday, Feb. 6, 2021. Molson Coors Brewing Co. is scheduled to release earnings figures on February 11. Photographer: Tiffany Hagler-Geard/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesTech

    Molson Coors says cyberattack has disrupted brewing operations

    By Dee-Ann Durbin and The Associated Press
  • Sugar House bartender Shelby Minnix creates a Lavender Lemonade cocktail in a to-go bottle, Thursday, Aug. 13, 2020, in Detroit. At least 33 states and the District of Columbia are temporarily allowing cocktails to-go during the pandemic, up from around three before the coronavirus struck.Finance

    Number of states allowing to-go cocktails has surged from 2 to 33 during coronavirus

    By The Associated Press and Dee-Ann Durbin
  • Friso Gentsch/picture alliance via Getty ImagesTech

    Airbnb cracks down on customers booking homes for parties

    By Dee-Ann Durbin and The Associated Press
  • Starbucks Underserved CommunitiesRetail

    Starbucks expands presence in low-income communities

    By Dee-Ann Durbin and The Associated Press
  • Dr. Patrick Brown, founder and CEO of Impossible Foods, the California plant-based meat company, unveils Impossible Pork and Impossible Sausage during a news conference before the CES tech show Monday, Jan. 6, 2020, in Las Vegas. Dr. Brown is also a professor emeritus in Stanford University's Biochemistry Department at the School of Medicine. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)Tech

    Impossible Foods Unveils the Other Fake Meat

    By Dee-Ann Durbin and The Associated Press
  • Airbnb-party-barTech

    Airbnb Introduces New Rules to Regulate Parties and Nuisances

    By Dee-Ann Durbin and The Associated Press
  • Retail

    ACLU and Time’s Up Legal Defense Back McDonald’s Employee Alleging Sexual Harassment

    By Dee-Ann Durbin and The Associated Press
  • McDonald’s CEO Stephen Easterbrook unveils the company’s new corporate headquarters during a grand opening ceremony on June 4, 2018 in Chicago, Illinois.Leadership

    McDonald’s CEO Pushed Out After Relationship with Employee

    By Cathy Bussewitz, Dee-Ann Durbin, and others
  • Ford Motor Co. president Lee A. Iacocca, leaning against a Ford Mustang in January 1974.

    Lee Iacocca, Former Chrysler CEO, Dies at 94

    By Tom Krisher, Dee-Ann Durbin, and others
  • Raised & Rooted Nuggets Made with Plants PackagingFinance

    Tyson Is the Latest Player to Enter the Hot Plant-Based Meat Market

    By Dee-Ann Durbin and The Associated Press