The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a food safety alert Tuesday warning that dozens of people reported eating the Quarter Pounder sandwich at McDonald’s before becoming sick.

Escherichia coli, or E. coli, is a common bacteria, but certain types can make you sick. Infections can occur after someone swallows the bacteria, often when consuming contaminated food or water. It can also spread from person to person through poor bathroom hygiene.

“Went to this McDonalds to try the new chicken big Mac and was stunned to see a convicted felon operating the drive through,” a reviewer wrote.
“The fries were too salty as if someone who lost a major election had been crying over them for an hour,” quipped another.
One reviewer mocked that the server “got bronzer on my fries.”

The public-facing websites for county elections offices across the state were down Monday, making critical information about where and when to vote more difficult to find as Pinellas, Hillsborough and many other counties start early in-person voting.

Several websites had error messages Monday morning that said they were “under heavy load at this time.” It’s unclear what is causing the problem, although Tallahassee-based vendor VR Systems released a statement around midday saying there was “no indication of malicious activity.” Supervisor’s offices began experiencing outages last week, the company said. An investigation to find the cause is underway.

As of midday, the Hillsborough, Pasco and Pinellas elections offices had posted backup versions of their websites with basic information about polling sites and how voters can check their information. But some other elections supervisors’ websites still showed error messages.

The Florida Department of State did not immediately respond to a request for comment about the websites being down.

Discover the first page of ESA Euclid’s great cosmic atlas and marvel at millions of stars and galaxies captured in pristine detail, in a huge 208-gigapixel mosaic. The mosaic covers an area of the Southern Sky more than 500 times the area of the full Moon as seen from Earth.

This video takes you through a rare sky dive. Starting from a vast cosmic panorama bedazzled by some 14 million galaxies, a series of ever-deeper zooms brings you to a crisp view of a swirling spiral galaxy, in a final image enlarged 600 times compared to the full mosaic.

Although the scenes are enticing, they are not taken for their beauty, but to help us advance our understanding of the cosmos. Many of the 14 million galaxies in the initial vista will be used to study the hidden influence of dark matter and dark energy on the Universe.

Unveiled as a teaser of the wide survey, the mosaic accounts for 1% of the area that Euclid will cover over six years, and was obtained by combining 260 observations collected in just two weeks.

They also pinned down the candidates when they evaded answers, with Brennan pressing Walz to say he misspoke in the past about being in China’s Tiananmen Square during the deadly 1989 protests. Brennan also pushed Vance for specifics on Trump’s mass deportation plan and whether he would separate parents from children, but didn’t get a specific answer.

In this video, we look at a startling new discovery revealed by the James Webb Space Telescope: a rapid and dramatic 250% increase in the brightness of Betelgeuse! Betelgeuse, one of the most well-known stars in the night sky, has long piqued astronomical interest, particularly since it dimmed dramatically in recent years, sparking speculation of an impending supernova. However, with this unexpected increase in luminosity, the red supergiant has taken scientists by surprise once more.

We examine what this unusual event means for Betelgeuse and what the James Webb Space Telescope has discovered thus far. Could this be a hint that the star is approaching the end of its life? Or are other cosmic factors at work, producing the increase in luminosity? Join us as we delve into the most recent data, evaluate expert viewpoints, and speculate on the fate of one of our galaxy's most mysterious stars.

The fiery debate was hosted by ABC News moderators David Muir and Linsey Davis, who sometimes interjected to fact-check answers to questions.

Harris often directly addressed Trump while replying to moderators’ questions; he stared straight ahead. Harris attacked Trump’s criminal conviction in New York and other indictments after he spoke about crime during the Biden administration.

Moments after the debate ended, singer-songwriter Taylor Swift said on Instagram that she would be voting for Harris.

Here’s how the candidates’ answers stood up to the facts.

As she watched election results roll in on Tuesday night, Pinellas County Supervisor of Elections Julie Marcus felt the pride flowing through her.

Her campaign for a second term was especially emotional. Her only challenger, fellow Republican Chris Gleason, ran on a platform accusing Marcus of deleting ballots, committing voter fraud and scheming to sway elections, claims she called “preposterous.”

So when all precincts were counted, and unofficial results showed Marcus won reelection with 84% of the vote, she took a moment to let the significance of that mandate sink in.

“To have that kind of response from voters giving affirmation that they believe in what you’re doing, I cannot but be emotional because it’s a tremendous responsibility that I take very seriously,” Marcus said. “I’m honored.”

A dumpster in the parking lot of Jane Bancroft Cook Library on the campus of New College overflowed with books and collections from the now-defunct Gender and Diversity Center on Tuesday afternoon. Video captured in the afternoon showed a vehicle driving away with the books before students were notified. In the past, students were given an opportunity to purchase books that were leaving the college's library collection.

Some discarded books included "Nine and Counting: The Women of the Senate", "The War of the Worlds" and "When I Knew," which is a collection of stories from LGBTQ+ people recounting when they knew they were gay. Several books from the GDC were retrienved by local activists before they could be taken for disposal.

Before Thursday's board of trustees meeting, Amy Reid, the faculty chair and representative on the board, said she hadn't heard about the disposal of books. When shown photos and videos, she was visibly shocked. She said when you throw away books, you also throw away democracy.

The search for extraterrestrial intelligence is currently being pursued using multiple techniques and in different wavelength bands. Dyson spheres, megastructures that could be constructed by advanced civilizations to harness the radiation energy of their host stars, represent a potential technosignature, that in principle may be hiding in public data already collected as part of large astronomical surveys. In this study, we present a comprehensive search for partial Dyson spheres by analyzing optical and infrared observations from Gaia, 2MASS, and WISE. We develop a pipeline that employs multiple filters to identify potential candidates and reject interlopers in a sample of five million objects, which incorporates a convolutional neural network to help identify confusion in WISE data. Finally, the pipeline identifies 7 candidates deserving of further analysis. All of these objects are M-dwarfs, for which astrophysical phenomena cannot easily account for the observed infrared excess emission.