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Brooklyn Nurses Lose Health Care For Weeks Despite $15M From State

Brooklyn Hospital Center Certified Nurse Midwife Yvette Byer-Henry poses for a portrait in front a health center in Fort Greene.

More than 400 nurses at the Brooklyn Hospital Center, where officials warned of a dire financial hole, have been cut off from health insurance coverage for six weeks, according to their union. Gov. Kathy Hochul provided $15 million in emergency state aid recently to the financially strapped 181-year-old community hospital that borders Fort Greene Park, […]

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Tropic raises $105M to scale gene-edited bananas


The Norwich-based agbiotech company launched the first new commercial banana varieties in more than 75 years in 2025. Now it has to build enough supply to meet demand. The world’s favourite fruit is in serious trouble. Panama Disease Tropical Race 4, a fungal pathogen that travels in soil and water and leaves no cure in […]



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The Best Black Celeb Looks at 2026 ESSENCE Black Women in Hollywood

From Teyana Taylor and Ryan Destiny to Chloe Bailey and more, these Black women shined bright at ESSENCE Black Women in Hollywood celebration. Let's get into their looks!

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Black Celeb Looks at 2026 ESSENCE Black Women in Hollywood

From Teyana Taylor and Ryan Destiny to Chloe Bailey and more, these Black women shined bright at ESSENCE Black Women in Hollywood celebration. Let's get into their looks!

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Tower raises €5.5m to empower data engineers in the AI era


The Berlin startup, founded by two ex-Snowflake engineers, wants to be the platform where AI-generated data pipelines go to actually work. The hard part of building with AI is no longer getting the code. It is getting the code to run. That gap,  between what an AI coding assistant can produce in minutes and what […]



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