Dee-Ann Durbin

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  • A store front of a Starbucks Coffee shop located in Broadway Avenue in Manhattan NY with people walking by and the famous logo of the twin-tailed mermaid, the siren as she’s known in Greek mythology illuminated. Starbucks Corporation is the world’s largest coffeehouse chain and roastery reserves, an American multinational cafe chain with headquarters in Seattle, Washington. New York City, United States of America on May 4, 2023 (Photo by Nicolas Economou/NurPhoto via Getty Images)Retail

    Starbucks denies accusations it’s banned Pride displays in stores amid backlash against Target and Bud Light for supporting LGBTQ+ causes

    By Dee-Ann Durbin and The Associated Press
  • The Pittsburgh Pride parade, celebrating 50 years of Pittsburgh Pride, crosses the Andy Warhol Bridge from downtown Pittsburgh, Saturday, June 3, 2023. Longtime Pride sponsors have come under attack by conservatives for their LGBTQ-friendly marketing. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)Retail

    Big companies from PepsiCo to General Motors are still backing Pride events even after Target and Bud Light face anti-LGBTQ+ backlash

    By Dee-Ann Durbin, Anne D'Innocenzio, and others
  • Monty Hobbs , right, and his dog Mattox sit next to another pet dog on the patio at the Olive Lounge in Takoma Park, Md. , on Thursday, May 4, 2023. Just in time for the summer dining season, the U.S. government has given its blessing to restaurants that want to allow pet dogs in their outdoor spaces. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)Health

    U.S. government says it’s fine to bring dogs into outdoor restaurant spaces but not everybody is happy about it

    By Dee-Ann Durbin and The Associated Press
  • Bottles of Bud Light beer are seen at a grocery store in Glenview, Ill., Tuesday, April 25, 2023. Bud Light may have fumbled its attempt to broaden its customer base by partnering with a transgender influencer. But experts say inclusive marketing is simply good business __ and it’s here to stay. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)Retail

    Bud Light fumbled its partnership with a transgender influencer, but such inclusive deals are here to stay, experts say

    By Dee-Ann Durbin and The Associated Press
  • LAS VEGAS, NEVADA – MARCH 29: A robot waiter serves food at the 2023 Bar & Restaurant Expo and World Tea Expo at the Las Vegas Convention Center on March 28, 2023 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by David Becker/Getty Images for Nightclub & Bar Media Group)Tech

    Restaurants say they can’t hire enough servers due to the labor shortage. Some are turning to robots

    By Dee-Ann Durbin and The Associated Press
  • FILE – Starbucks founder and former CEO Howard Schultz testifies before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee where he faced questions about the company’s actions during an ongoing campaign for an employee union, at the Capitol in Washington on March 29, 2023. Starbucks has fired one of the workers who helped kick off a unionization effort at the company on Friday, March 31. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)Success

    Starbucks has fired a worker who helped spark the company’s massive unionization drive but she vows to fight to get her job back

    By Dee-Ann Durbin and The Associated Press
  • Longtime Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz takes his seat at a crowded Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee hearing room where he expects to face sharp questioning about the company’s actions during an ongoing unionizing campaign, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, March 29, 2023. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)Politics

    As Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz faces off with Bernie Sanders he insists: ‘We do nothing nefarious. We put our people first’

    By Dee-Ann Durbin and The Associated Press
  • NEW YORK, NEW YORK – SEPTEMBER 5: Amazon and Stabucks workers, supported by new service economy unions, march through the streets to the private homes of their CEOs to protest union busting on Labor Day, September 5, 2022, in New York City, New York. (Photo by Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images)Retail

    Howard Schultz agrees to testify before Senate about Starbucks’ anti-union push that Sen. Bernie Sanders calls ‘illegal’

    By Dee-Ann Durbin and The Associated Press
  • Reese's Plant Based Peanut Butter CupsRetail

    Get ready for Reese’s Plant Based Peanut Butter Cups

    By Dee-Ann Durbin and The Associated Press
  • FILE – A Tyson Foods, Inc., truck is parked at a food warehouse on Oct. 28, 2009, in Little Rock, Ark. Thirty-four Tyson Foods employees, former employees and family members filed a lawsuit against the Arkansas-based company Monday, March 6, 2023, saying it failed to take appropriate precautions during the early days of the COVID pandemic. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston, File)Finance

    Tyson workers sue company over lack of COVID protections during early days of pandemic

    By Dee-Ann Durbin and The Associated Press
  • WASHINGTON, DC – FEBRUARY 28: Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) speaks during a rally in support of the Biden administration’s student debt relief plan in front of the U.S. Supreme Court on February 28, 2023 in Washington, DC. This morning, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in two cases challenging President Joe Biden’s student loan debt forgiveness program, which remains on hold after a lower court blocked the plan in November. The two cases Biden v. Nebraska and Department of Education v. Brown, could decide the fate of the program that aims to forgive an estimated $400 billion in student debt for 26 million borrowers. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)Leadership

    Bernie Sanders just made moves to force Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz to testify in front of Congress warning that no one is ‘above the law’

    By Dee-Ann Durbin and The Associated Press
  • Matt Baker, chef and owner of Gravitas, poses for a portrait inside the restaurant, Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2023, in Washington. Gravitas has a subscription service offering a monthly meal for two. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)Finance

    Restaurants like Taco Bell are falling in love with the Netflix subscription model—like $10 a month for a taco every day

    By Dee-Ann Durbin and The Associated Press
  • FILE – A view of the exterior of the Home Depot improvement store, in Niles, Ill., Saturday, Feb. 19, 2022. Home Depot says it’s investing $1 billion in wage increases for its U.S. and Canadian hourly workers. The Atlanta-based home improvement chain said Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2023 that every hourly employee will get a raise starting this month. The investment will also ensure that starting pay is at least $15 per hour in all markets. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh, File)Success

    A hot jobs market is forcing Home Depot to spend $1 billion raising employee wages to ‘attract and retain the best talent’

    By Dee-Ann Durbin and The Associated Press
  • FILE – Netherland’s Prime Minister Mark Rutte, left, speaks with U.S. President Joe Biden during a round table meeting at a NATO summit in Madrid, Spain, June 29, 2022. Biden is set to host Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte for talks. The U.S. administration is looking to persuade the Netherlands to further limit China’s access to advanced semiconductors with export restrictions. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, Pool)Politics

    Biden’s huge computer chips campaign against China has won over the Dutch and Japanese, source says

    By Dee-Ann Durbin, Aamer Madhani, and others
  • Taylor Swift poses in the press room with awards at the American Music AwardsPolitics

    The Taylor Swift Ticketmaster fiasco was so intense that there’s going to be a Senate hearing about it today

    By Dee-Ann Durbin and The Associated Press