Dee-Ann Durbin

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Cans of Pringles

Snack stars are aligning as the FTC clears the $36 billion Mars-Kellanova merger for launch

By Dee-Ann Durbin and The Associated Press

The outside of a JBS plant

Critics urge the New York Stock Exchange to reject listing JBS, one of the world’s largest meat companies, claiming it’s illegally profiting from deforested land in Brazil

By Dee-Ann Durbin and The Associated Press

Mondelez packaging next to Aldi packaging showing the similarities

Mondelez is suing Aldi, alleging the supermarket chain ‘blatantly copies’ its packaging. The side-by-side photos are wild

By Dee-Ann Durbin and The Associated Press

Starbucks union members and their supporters, including baristas who have just walked off the job, effectively closing a local branch, picket

Starbucks barista protest over ‘restrictive’ new black shirt dress code grows to more than 2000

By Dee-Ann Durbin and The Associated Press

SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA – APRIL 8: As traffic backs up on Interstate 5 heading into downtown San Diego, a Delta Airlines Airbus A321 airplane approaches San Diego International Airport for a landing from Salt Lake City on April 8, 2025 in San Diego, California. (Photo by Kevin Carter/Getty Images)

Travel & Leisure

Trump’s trade war has a new victim: Workers traveling for business to the U.S.

By Dee-Ann Durbin and The Associated Press

/09: Pedestrians walk past the American multinational chain Starbucks Coffee store.

Over 1,000 Starbucks baristas go on strike over ‘restrictive new dress code’ of black shirts under their green aprons

By Dee-Ann Durbin and The Associated Press

FILE – Cashier Josh Jimenez rings up egg for sale at a grocery store on Friday, Feb. 7, 2025, in Dallas. (AP Photo/LM Otero, File)

U.S. egg prices just fell for the first time in 7 months—but are still hovering at near-record highs

By Dee-Ann Durbin and The Associated Press

MIAMI, FLORIDA – MAY 01: A customer waits on an order in a McDonald’s restaurant on May 01, 2025 in Miami, Florida. McDonald’s U.S. announced that same-store sales shrank 3.6%. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

McDonald’s plans to hire 375,000 U.S. workers this summer, almost 50% more than its last big hire in 2020

By Dee-Ann Durbin and The Associated Press

DoorDash CEO Tony Xu speaks

DoorDash just announced a killer earnings report with record first-quarter revenue and two major billion-dollar acquisitions—but its stock is tumbling anyway

By Dee-Ann Durbin and The Associated Press

Chipotle Mexican Grill is coming to…Mexico

By Dee-Ann Durbin and The Associated Press

new parents shopping for stroller

New parents are worried Trump’s tariffs will make having a baby prohibitively expensive. ‘Babies don’t stop being born because there’s tariffs’

By Dee-Ann Durbin and The Associated Press

Views over the Yosemite Valley floor at sunset.

Angry tourists are ditching vacations in the U.S. over Trump’s ‘bullying’: ‘The U.S. is not perceived as a welcoming destination’

By Dee-Ann Durbin and The Associated Press

Shown is a display of French Germany and Spanish wines at a Pennsylvania Fine Wine & Good Spirits in Flourtown, Pa., Thursday, March 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Trump says a 200% tariff on European alcohol would be ‘great’ for American businesses but wine sellers say it will slam the whole industry—’including U.S. wineries’

By Dee-Ann Durbin, Mae Anderson, and others

Jeff Ware, president of Resurgence Brewing Company, poses for a portrait near a stockpile of aluminum cans, which are sourced from Canada, Thursday, Feb. 27, 2025, in Buffalo, N.Y.

Trump’s 25% tariffs on steel and aluminum imports force up prices for American necessities from soda cans to airplanes

By Dee-Ann Durbin, Anne D'Innocenzio, and others

A spread of brunch foods on a table

Egg eateries are exploding across the U.S. Now, an egg shortage threatens to upend brunch

By Dee-Ann Durbin and The Associated Press