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Four formerly broke, high school dropouts including a onetime standup comedian and line cook, rapper Drake and the son of an oil billionaire are all winners in Dave’s sale to Roark Capital. “How late did you guys stay out last night?” jokes Dave’s Hot Chicken CEO Bill Phelps. The 69-year-old, who joined the Los Angeles-based spicy chicken chain in 2019 after leading Blaze Pizza and Wetzel’s Pretzels, is sitting next to his second in-command, Dave’s president and COO Jim Bitticks, another Blaze alumnus, on one side of a large conference room table in Forbes’ Jersey City office. On the other…

Gail Federici sold her first company, John Frieda Hair Care, in 2002. She’s more than doubled her fortune building a second brand, Color Wow, which is now eyeing a $1 billion sale. After selling her first company, John Frieda Professional Hair Care, in 2002, Gail Federici thought she was done with hair forever. She’d spent the prior 13 years growing John Frieda, a partnership with the legendary British hair stylist of the same name which she cofounded in 1989, and made an estimated $170 million fortune from its sale to Japanese giant Kao Corporation. “I felt like we’d been there,…

NEW YORK (AP) — The leaders of a sex-focused women’s wellness company that promoted “orgasmic meditation” have been convicted of federal forced labor charges.A Brooklyn jury on Monday found Nicole Daedone, founder of OneTaste Inc., and Rachel Cherwitz, the California-based company’s former sales director, guilty of forced labor conspiracy after deliberating for less than two days following a roughly monthlong trial.Daedone’s defense team had cast her as a “ceiling-shattering feminist entrepreneur” who created a unique business around women’s sexuality and empowerment.But prosecutors argued the two women ran a yearslong scheme that groomed adherents — many of them victims of sexual…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House broke ground Monday on construction projects ordered by President Donald Trump to pave over the grass in the Rose Garden and install flagpoles on the north and south lawns.The projects are part of a series of personal touches that Trump, a real estate developer turned politician, has added or is adding to the Executive Mansion and its grounds since he opened his second term in January. The projects also include new artwork of himself on walls and gold-toned flourishes in the Oval Office. He also wants to add a ballroom.Reporters on Monday noticed that…

WASHINGTON (AP) — I’m cruising around Bowser’s Castle with my old pal Toad. It’s not exactly relaxing, what with all the lava pits and banana peels and turtle shells littering the road. Add 23 other characters — is that a cow driving? — who are trying to get to the finish line first, and it’s chaos.The hectic, high-speed insanity of any race in the new Mario Kart World would have caused the eight-year-old Switch console to wheeze a bit. And that’s why we’ve got the Switch 2 ($449.99), the souped-up sequel to Nintendo’s popular home-and-portable hybrid.It looks prettier, too. The…

This pasta dish, a riff on an offering served at Trattoria Bertozzi in Bologna, Italy, is a golden, fresh combination of guanciale (cured pork cheek), fragrant saffron, summery zucchini and short, curly pasta.In this recipe from our cookbook “ Milk Street Backroads Italy,” we opted for easier-to-find but equally meaty pancetta, and lightened the dish’s richness by swapping in half-and-half for the heavy cream.The restaurant uses gramigna pasta, a tubular, curled shape from the Emilia-Romagna region, but cavatappi or gemelli works just as well, combining with the zucchini and catching the lightly creamy sauce in its crevices.Saffron is best when…

Southern Baptists meeting this week in Dallas will be asked to approve resolutions calling for a legal ban on pornography and a reversal of the U.S. Supreme Court’s approval of same-sex marriage.The proposed resolutions call for laws on gender, marriage and family based on what they say is the biblically stated order of divine creation. They also call for legislators to curtail sports betting and to support policies that promote childbearing. The Southern Baptist Convention, the nation’s largest Protestant denomination, is also expected to debate controversies within its own house during its annual meeting Tuesday and Wednesday — such as…

CUPERTINO, Calif. (AP) — After stumbling out of the starting gate in Big Tech’s pivotal race to capitalize on artificial intelligence, Apple tried to regain its footing Monday at its annual Worldwide Developers Conference.The presummer rite, which attracted thousands of developers from nearly 60 countries to Apple’s Silicon Valley headquarters, was more subdued than the feverish anticipation that surrounded the event during the previous two years. In 2023, Apple unveiled a mixed-reality headset that has been little more than a niche product, and last year WWDC trumpeted its first major foray into the AI craze with an array of new…

Bella Bautista, 22, a trans woman, attends the World Pride Parade with Jae Douglas, 21, right, who identifies as a trans femme, Saturday, June 7, 2025, in Washington. A resident of Georgia, she’s wearing a sash from her time in the Miss Supranational USA pageant, in which she represented Tennessee. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) Bella Bautista, 22, a trans woman, attends the World Pride Parade with Jae Douglas, 21, right, who identifies as a trans femme, Saturday, June 7, 2025, in Washington. A resident of Georgia, she’s wearing a sash from her time in the Miss Supranational USA pageant, in which…

The Indonesian immigrant, former figure skater and early Facebook investor is America’s first and only billionaire female venture capitalist. Venture capitalist Theresia Gouw is “smart, opinionated and the only woman in the room,” says Heather Fernandez, cofounder and CEO of healthtech startup Solv and former executive at real estate tech firm Trulia, which Gouw backed in 2005. She’s also become a woman of many firsts. Born in Indonesia to parents of Chinese descent, Gouw immigrated to the U.S. when she was three. She later became the first person in her high school to attend Brown University, the first female partner…