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In the 19th century, a few pioneering entrepreneurs set out to make a tropical fruit the most popular in the U.S. They succeeded, and the banana is still Americans’ favorite fruit. In the last decade, the U.S. imported an average of $2.2 billion worth of bananas each year, largely from …

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are only weeks away from welcoming their first child. While the British royal family never comments on the sex or name of children ahead of their birth, some people are speculating that the couple is expecting a baby girl, thanks to a slip by Serena …

The prosecutor who dropped disorderly conduct charges against the actor Jussie Smollett defended the decision, saying her office was uncertain it had enough evidence to gain a conviction and wanted to focus on bigger crime in Chicago, she wrote in an op-ed. The prosecutor, Kim Foxx, the Cook County state’s …

I also got weird vibes from some white people, namely the parents of the women I was dating. Like the ones who — even after I’d been dating their daughter for six months — kept thinking I was from Puerto Rico. I’ve never even been to Puerto Rico. Or the …

CNBC’s Jim Cramer on Monday said investors should buy on the pullback in Nike coming off of its latest earnings report. The stock plummeted 6.6 percent on Friday after Nike reported weaker-than-expected sales growth in North America, but Cramer said he likes where the company is positioned. Despite the blip …

LONDON — Tate, which runs some of Britain’s most important art museums, announced Thursday night that it will no longer accept financial donations from the Sackler family, whose pharmaceutical interests have been linked to the opioid crisis. “The Sackler family has given generously to Tate in the past, as they …

A view of Toronto during wintertime from Sir Casimir Gzowski ParkGetty Our cities are getting smarter. Look around any modern metropolis, and you’ll see hundreds of Smart devices. Devices that provide better convenience, increase our safety, enable connectivity anywhere, reduce our traffic jams, improve our economy – all with a …

The children’s climate strike has become another lightning rod in the never-ending culture war. Those on the left applauded them for their brave moral stand. Jonathan Freedland – not without basis – pointed to the strike as evidence that children were acting more like adults than the adults. But on …

The Metropolitan Museum of Art built a substantial exhibition last year around a new acquisition, a golden-sheathed coffin from the 1st century B.C. that was inscribed for Nedjemankh, a high-ranking priest of the ram-headed god Heryshef of Herakleopolis. But the exhibit, “Nedjemankh and His Gilded Coffin,” shuttered earlier this week …

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), who called for a transition away from nuclear energy, and Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA), who has been working to close his state’s Pilgrim nuclear plant, announcing a “Green New Deal” proposal on February 7, 2019. (Photo by SAUL LOEB / AFP/Getty Images)Getty Why is it that, from the U.S. and …