For Kennedy Escamilla, a bad tip day could ruin the entire week.

She has been a server for five years, both in Nevada and back home in Michigan. For the past year, she has worked at 1228 Main in the Arts District, as well as on the Strip at the Fogo De Chao in The Venetian.

“With the amount that gets taxed from my check, we completely rely ...Read more

Just a few months ago, rumors swirled that Jeff Bezos could place a bid for the Seattle Seahawks.

But it turns out that Bezos might be interested in Europe’s version of football instead.

The Amazon co-founder and billionaire is reportedly in talks to join a bid for a 30% stake in the Liverpool Football Club — a major professional English ...Read more

U.S. consumer confidence fell in July as Americans’ views about current business conditions and the labor market deteriorated.

The Conference Board’s gauge of confidence decreased 1.4 points to 90.8 after an upward revision to the prior month, data released Tuesday showed. The median estimate in a Bloomberg survey of economists was 92.4.

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As energy prices continue to rise and power outages become more frequent amid extreme weather events, ComEd customers have a new option to help navigate both problems.

A giant backyard battery.

Base Power, an Austin, Texas-based startup, has made Chicago its second market for an outdoor battery system that promises to lower monthly electricity...Read more

Minneapolis’ new crowd-drawing bar Lonely’s offers typical fare such as $18 pitchers of Budweiser. But for the menu at the watering hole, part-owner Eric Odness wanted to include a staple in his home: $7 pizza rolls.

“It was just something kind of simple and fun,” Odness said of General Mills’ Totino’s snacks. “And I think they’...Read more

Wilfredo Engalla, a 51-year-old Filipino immigrant, alleged in a medical malpractice case that Kaiser doctors misdiagnosed him with colds and allergies for years before eventually informing him he had terminal lung cancer.

He died before his complaint could be heard by an arbitrator, which his Kaiser policy required. His case prompted a ...Read more

The biggest U.S. power grid is warning that data centers may face involuntary outages under a plan to avert widespread blackouts and protect residential ratepayers from electricity price spikes.

Digital warehouses that fail to secure enough power generation to slake their needs may be temporarily dropped from the grid during high-demand periods...Read more

Elon Musk’s adoption of the title “Technoking” at Tesla Inc. looks less like a joke, in retrospect, and more like a manifesto. His recent interview with The Economist ranged widely, from the future of artificial intelligence to his infamous stint heading the Department of Government Efficiency to a coming civil war in the UK. The common ...Read more

Nvidia Corp. is working on a fresh round of AI deals worth more than $750 billion, accelerating investments that skeptics have warned are artificially inflating demand and valuations across the industry.

A partnership with South Korean conglomerate SK Group unveiled late Friday means the companies will be doing more than $500 billion in ...Read more

BuzzFeed is cutting roughly 35% of its workforce in its first major restructuring since media mogul Byron Allen bought a majority stake in the firm two months ago.

The layoffs, outlined in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing on Monday, will affect about 180 staff and contract positions across BuzzFeed and its sister brands HuffPost and ...Read more

Ken Winans has a bold idea: turn Las Vegas into the Wall Street of the West.

The president and chief investment officer for Winans Investments, a local investment management firm, said the valley could actually be the perfect place given its environment, geography and current rules and regulations. Wall Street is a colloquial term for the ...Read more

ROSEVILLE, Minnesota — Slipping on Meta’s AI-powered glasses at Best Buy’s new in-store hub, shoppers can navigate to the nearest coffee shop, view text messages or translate menus in real time with a voice command or subtle hand gesture.

But as the retailer rolls out dozens of Meta Labs hubs, privacy concerns around glasses and other AI ...Read more

Apartment renters with $1,500 a month to spend can get the equivalent of one or two bedrooms in Pittsburgh, a studio in Philadelphia, or a dorm room in Manhattan.

That’s according to an analysis by RentCafe, a national apartment search website, based on average price per square foot for apartments in properties with 50 or more units.

A ...Read more

Voters in Half Moon Bay, California, will decide in November whether to allow a 40-unit affordable housing development for older farmworkers to move forward, extending a years-long fight that has drawn threats from Gov. Gavin Newsom and could exacerbate an ongoing confrontation between city and state officials over housing mandates.

The City ...Read more

Over the last year, Chicago rideshare drivers have faced a mounting list of challenges including app deactivations and immigration raids. Now, the city is launching an initiative to help connect drivers with help.

The nonprofit People’s Lobby Education Institute will run the program, which launches Monday and is set to last at least one year...Read more

Federal Reserve officials will head into their policy meeting this week confronting a resurgence in price pressures that could make their decision on whether to hold or hike interest rates a close call — and a contentious one.

Renewed tensions in the Middle East have sent oil prices soaring again, overshadowing a tamer-than-expected reading ...Read more

The latest transatlantic technology brouhaha unfolded on Instagram.

During a week in June when the leaders of the Group of Seven descended on France and Paris held its flagship technology conference, French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu took to the platform better known for aspirational travel content to announce his government was seeking...Read more

Roundabouts have emerged in force on Minnesota roads in the last two decades, now numbering nearly 600.

Drivers tend to love or hate them — specifically, they hate the way other drivers use them. But they’re beloved by traffic engineers, who praise the way they keep vehicles flowing and reduce serious crashes.

Once in a while, though, they...Read more

Nvidia Corp. is working on a fresh round of AI infrastructure deals potentially worth more than $750 billion, accelerating a streak of investments that skeptics warn is artificially inflating demand and valuations across the industry.

An artificial intelligence initiative with the parent of South Korean chipmaker SK Hynix Inc. unveiled late ...Read more