U.S. & World

Walk into any supermarket and you can generally buy a banana for less than $1. But a banana duct-taped to a wall? That might sell for more than $1 million at an upcoming auction at Sotheby’s in New York.

From Latino teens in Georgia to a lesbian Las Vegas business owner, they’re the latest to receive offensive and disturbing text messages that the FBI is investigating.

President-elect Donald Trump says he is nominating Dr. Mehmet Oz, who hosted a long-running television talk show, to lead the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

Netflix said 108 million global viewers tuned in for the fight between Tyson and Paul, a major test for the streamer in the live sports realm.

The U.S. Surgeon General’s findings highlight persistent health disparities in tobacco use linked to race and ethnicity, income, education, sexual orientation and gender identity, occupation, geography, behavioral health status, and other factors.

A new Peacock docuseries, “Making Manson,” out Nov. 19, features 20 years of recordings of Charles Manson’s private phone conversations from prison.

The file that was hacked Monday included the testimony of the woman who alleges she had sex with Gaetz when she was 17 in 2017, and the testimony of a second woman who said she witnessed the encounter, a source told NBC News.

Lenders often encourage federal student loan borrowers to sign up for automatic payments. But a new report shows the decision can backfire.

Authorities say four monkeys remain free nearly two weeks after a group of 43 escaped from a South Carolina compound that breeds them for medical research.

President-elect Donald Trump said Tuesday he has chosen a key transition adviser and billionaire financial services executive, Howard Lutnick, to lead the Commerce Department.

Mafe and Coco Cabezas’ homesickness inspired them to launch Toast-It.

The 27-year-old son of Norway’s crown princess was arrested on Monday on suspicion of rape, one of many allegations against Marius Borg Hoiby.

The transaction is “intended to help enable Jersey Mike’s to accelerate its expansion across and beyond the U.S. market,” the companies said Tuesday.