According to public health officials, an E. coli outbreak in organic carrots has killed one individual, hospitalized 15 people, and caused 39 total illnesses. “The FDA and CDC, in collaboration with state and local partners, are investigating illnesses in a multistate outbreak of Shiga toxin-producing E. coli O121:H19 infections linked to organic whole and baby carrots supplied by Grimmway Farms of Bakersfield, California,” the FDA announced. “State and local public health officials are interviewing people about the foods they ate in the week before they got sick. Of the 27 people interviewed, 26 (96%) reported eating carrots,” the agency continued. “E. Coli Outbreak: 39 people are sick in 18 states. Check your homes for recalled bagged organic carrots. Do not eat recalled carrots. Throw them away. Carrots currently on store shelves are not affected. See the notice for a full list of brands of carrots,” the CDC stated. E. Coli Outbreak: 39 people are sick in 18 states. Check your homes for recalled bagged organic carrots. Do not eat recalled carrots. Throw them away. Carrots currently on store shelves are not affected. See the notice for a full list of brands of carrots.https://t.co/lzD2Z1SEAw pic.twitter.com/dL4KpqmZr1 — CDC (@CDCgov) November 17, 2024 From the FDA: FDA’s traceback investigation identified Grimmway Farms as the common supplier of organic whole and baby carrots in this outbreak. On November 16, 2024, Grimmway Farms initiated a voluntary recall of multiple quantities and brands of bagged organic whole and baby carrots and contacted their distributing customers. The retail-packaged organic whole carrots were in stores for purchase from August 14 through October 23, 2024. The organic baby carrots have different best-if-used-by-dates ranging from September 11 through November 12, 2024. A full list of recalled products is below. Although product is likely no longer on the market, carrots can last a long time when refrigerated or frozen. Consumers should check their refrigerators and freezers and discard these recalled products. Distributors and retailers that may have received recalled bagged organic whole and baby carrots should follow the recommendations above and contact their customers. FDA is working with the firm to determine the source of contamination and whether additional products are affected. This advisory will be updated as information becomes available. OUTBREAK: Investigation of E. coli O121:H9 in bagged organic whole & baby #carrots from Grimmway Farms. The voluntary recall is of multiple sizes & brands. Products are likely no longer available for sale in stores – check your refrigerator. Full list> https://t.co/4hPELJWChF pic.twitter.com/Xv1JivF611 — U.S. FDA Human Foods Program (@FDAfood) November 18, 2024 “Organic whole carrots were available for purchase at retail from August 14 through October 23, 2024 (365, Bunny Luv, Cal-Organic, Compliments, Full Circle, Good & Gather, GreenWise, Marketside, Nature’s Promise, O Organic, President’s Choice, Simple Truth, Trader Joe’s, Wegmans, Wholesome Pantry),” the FDA noted. “Organic baby carrots include specific best-if-used-by dates printed on the bags ranging from September 11 to November 12, 2024 (365, Bunny Luv, Cal-Organic, Compliments, Full Circle, Good & Gather, GreenWise, Grimmway Farms, Kroger, LIDL, Marketside, Nature’s Promise, O Organic, President’s Choice, Raley’s, Simple Truth, Sprouts, Trader Joe’s, Wegmans, Wholesome Pantry),” the agency added. CARROT RECALL: CDC says 1 dead, 39 infected in E. coli outbreak in 18 states linked to organic carrotshttps://t.co/G8eYG8DyY1 pic.twitter.com/yVn6yABqYK — ABC7 Eyewitness News (@ABC7) November 18, 2024 Per USA TODAY: The recalled Grimmway Farms products may have been contaminated with Shiga toxin-producing E. coli, which is a bacterium that can “cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, elderly people and those with a weakened immune system,” according to the CDC and California-based grower. “Some infections can cause severe bloody diarrhea conditions, such as a hemolytic uremic syndrome, or the development of high blood pressure, chronic kidney disease, and neurologic problems,” the CDC said. Symptoms of E. coli infections include severe stomach cramps, diarrhea, fever, nausea, and/or vomiting, according to the agency. The incubation period for E. coli in humans ranges from 24 hours to as long as 10 days, with the average incubation period being three to four days, the CDC said. Grimmway Farms said it has notified customers who received the affected carrots directly from them and requested that they notify distributors of the recalled products. The implicated farms are out of production, and none of the recalled carrots have tested positive for E. coli, according to the company. Review the full list of recalled products HERE.

All he does is win….and set records! And a new one just got set. That’s right folks, as votes continue to come in and be counted now 13 days post-election (yes, very strange) President Trump has just won the MOST VOTES for a Republican in the history of our country! Donald Trump won at least 76,433,539 votes . DETAILS: https://t.co/IJ72vk3Fv2 pic.twitter.com/rsoCZ8a5x1 — VOZ (@Voz_US) November 18, 2024 The first time any Republican candidate has ever crossed 76 million (or even came close to it). In fact, even in Ronald Reagan’s landslide 1984 victory, he didn’t come close. In Ronald Reagan’s landslide victory during the 1984 U.S. presidential election, he received 54,455,472 popular votes, which accounted for approximately 58.8% of the total votes cast. This was one of the largest electoral victories in U.S. history, where he carried 49 out of 50 states. Too Big to Rig! Donald J. Trump just crossed over the 76 MILLION vote threshold – the first ever for a Republican candidate in U.S. history. Trump: 76,133,250 Harris: 73,237,314 pic.twitter.com/Rr9J7SsonI — ((?3⃣???3⃣)) I Stand with Israel! (@w3bsag3) November 16, 2024 Here’s more, from Voz: Last November 5, Donald Trump won at least 76,433,539 votes (small percentages in California, Oregon, Washington and Alaska are still being counted at the time of closing this news), setting a new record for the number of votes by which a Republican reached the White House. In fact, this is the best record for a conservative candidate, since the highest mark so far was obtained by Trump himself in his 2020 defeat to Joe Biden. Then, his 74,223,975 ballots fell far short of Biden’s 81,283,501, the absolute record. Despite this difference, the presidency was decided by a few ballots in several states. Trump returned to the Oval Office with 50.2% of the ballots of the 151,657,903 voters who participated in the election. A turnout inferior by 6,552,075 to that of four years ago. In addition, his victory in the seven swing states allowed him to reach 312 electoral votes, surpassing Biden’s 306 in 2020. In fact, the third best record for a Republican candidate is also held by the tycoon. The 62,984,829 votes that propelled him to the presidency in 2016 surpass the previous Republican record by almost a million: the 62,040,610 with which George W. Bush won re-election in 2004 against John Kerry. Between the two, John McCain crashed dismally against the first Barack Obama in 2008, failing to reach 60 million votes, while Mitt Romney neared 61 million, however, despite narrowing the popular vote margin, Romney was still decisively defeated in electoral pledges. Nixon, winner by highest percentage; Reagan record number of pledges However, Trump is not the Republican who won the highest percentage of popular vote relative to turnout, nor the one who won the most electoral votes. In terms of percentage points, Richard Nixon got 60.67% of the ballots validated in 1972, while Warren Harding got 60.35% in 1920. In third place is the 58.77% with which Ronald Reagan won in 1984 the largest victory in the country’s history in number of electoral votes: 525. The second Republican with the most electoral votes obtained was Nixon (520) in 1972 (the second best historical result in this field was for Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1936, with 523), followed by Reagan’s 489 in his first term (1980) and Dwight Einsenhower’s 457 in 1956. It’s a landslide by any metric you choose to look at: Trump has the PresidencyTrump has the Popular VoteTrump has the SenateTrump has the HouseTrump has the MilitaryTrump has SCOTUSTrump has the People ABSOLUTE VICTORY pic.twitter.com/Rdas360ZZn — Twin Tower City (@TwinTowerCity) November 10, 2024 Trump won by SO MUCH that even the Woke NFL is now doing the Trump dance after touchdowns: Now that Trump won the popular vote, it’s becoming apparent to those who didn’t understand just how popular he was/is. pic.twitter.com/GBEEovrvEZ — Native Patriot (@LaNativePatriot) November 17, 2024 But here’s something hilarious…. CNN is desperately trying to somehow turn this into a negative story and they had to go back to the 1800s to try and come up with some explanation for why it’s really not very good….LOL! I can’t even follow this, see if you speak nonsensical gibberish, maybe it will make sense to you: CNN is desperately attempting to delegitimize Trump’s historic mandate by comparing it to election results from before radio existed. Trump won the popular vote by MILLIONS — and won the largest electoral margin for a Republican in 36 years. Nothing will change those facts. pic.twitter.com/9wyk6pzGN3 — johnny maga (@_johnnymaga) November 18, 2024 Here’s more from the NY Post on the now record-setting win: He won it bigly. President-elect Donald Trump has nabbed the highest raw count of the popular vote of any Republican presidential hopeful ever, according to projections of the 2024 election. As of Sunday morning, Trump clinched 74,650,000 popular votes, eclipsing his prior record of 74,224,000 votes in the 2020 election, per the Associated Press. At the moment, that puts the incoming president ahead of Vice President Kamala Harris’ 70.9 million votes — though there is still a large swath of votes uncounted, including in California, which has an estimated 66% of the vote tabulated. Other states, including Alaska, Arizona, Maryland, Oregon and Utah, still have outstanding votes. Roughly 5 million votes are estimated to be left outstanding. Republicans haven’t won the popular vote in a presidential contest since 2004, when President George W. Bush got 62 million votes. Ronald Reagan won 54 million votes in his landslide re-election in 1984 — when the country had 100 million fewer people than it does now. President Biden still has scored the largest raw count of the popular vote of any presidential contender in US history, with 81.3 million votes for him in 2020. Trump, 78, had swept all seven battleground states and won the Electoral College by 312 to 226. That’s the largest victory since 2012, when then-incumbent President Barack Obama notched 332 to 206. For context, Trump’s 2016 victory was 304 to 227. Biden won the Electoral College 306 to 232. Republicans have also recaptured the Senate and are within striking distance of retaining the House of Representatives. So it’s actually the second-highest popular vote win of all time, second only to….Biden in 2020. Hmmmm. Wonder if we’ll later see some light shed on that? You know what I mean. Last, I’ll end with this. While researching this article, I cam across this post on X from Johnny MAGA from 2023 where he predicted a Trump Popular Vote win and 315 electoral votes.  Wow!!  Nailed it almost perfectly a whole year early!  Yes, granted that was Trump vs. Biden, but still quite impressive Johnny! CBS news has Trump winning the popular vote in a general election poll We’ve never seen this before Trump is going to outperform his 2016 numbers with probably 315 electoral votes pic.twitter.com/o1qXZXEOua — johnny maga (@_johnnymaga) September 17, 2023 Please SHARE.

Trump’s December 5 hearing to boot Fulton County DA Fani Willis from his case has been mysteriously scrapped. Why did the Georgia Court of Appeals do that? It’s yet to be revealed why. As of now, Willis remains on the case thanks to a ruling earlier this year from Judge Scott McAfee. But he dropped two criminal counts against Trump in September. The court’s decision to cancel oral arguments leaves everyone guessing. Was it a scheduling hiccup or something more? BREAKING: Georgia Court of Appeals Abruptly Cancels Oral Arguments in Fani Willis Trump RICO Case Against Trump https://t.co/iT2gaOv8Lh pic.twitter.com/zmHaf1SNrP — The Gateway Pundit (@gatewaypundit) November 18, 2024 The Gateway Pundit reports: President Trump’s hearing to disqualify Fani Willis was set for December 5, but the Georgia Court of Appeals abruptly canceled the oral argument. It is unclear why the appeals court canceled the oral arguments. In August 2023, corrupt Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis indicted President Trump and 18 co-defendants for daring to challenge the 2020 election. In March, Georgia Judge Scott McAfee ruled that crooked and dishonest Fani Willis will be allowed to remain on the Trump case. In September Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee dropped two criminal counts against President Trump in Fani Willis’s lawfare RICO case. Judge McAfee said two of the counts related to conspiracy and filing false documents are outside of Fani Willis’s jurisdiction since she is a local District Attorney and not a federal prosecutor. BREAKING LEGAL NEWS The Georgia Court of Appeals has abruptly cancelled oral argument in the #FaniWillis Trump RICO disqualification appeal pic.twitter.com/pk1Q0ufOSn — Phil Holloway (@PhilHollowayEsq) November 18, 2024 For those who forgot, Fani hired Nathan Wade to go after Trump, for over half a million dollars. Fani Willis hired her lover boy to persecute Trump and funneled over $650,000 in taxpayer money to him. That is more than enough to determine impropriety. And, there is so much more. pic.twitter.com/vqyP0boWBx — SULLY (@SULLY10X) January 18, 2024

The Associated Press announced on Monday that it would begin offering buyouts and laying off selected employees, with plans to reduce the outlet’s work force by 8%. The outlet intends to accelerate a transition to a “digital-first organization.” NEW: The Associated Press plans to reduce its workforce by 8% through a combination of buyouts and layoffs. https://t.co/j9zey8GfXQ — Axios (@axios) November 18, 2024 From the Associated Press: The AP said those eligible for buyouts were to learn of the offer, which would include severance pay and partial health coverage for 18 months, by the end of Monday. Those whose positions are due to be eliminated would learn about their fates over the next few weeks. Once considered the world’s largest newsgathering organization, the AP no longer makes that claim and does not reveal the size of its staff. As a result, it was impossible to say on Monday how many people would be affected. The AP said less than half of the anticipated cuts would involve its news employees, with the bulk happening within the United States. The News Media Guild said that 121 of its members would be offered buyouts. The AP, without giving an estimate, said there would be fewer job cuts than that among the union members. For years, news executives have had to make cutbacks because solutions to their business problems have proven elusive, said Gabriel Kahn, who helps run the media, economics and entrepreneurship program at the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. It has become even tougher in the past couple of years as the work of journalists has become much less visible on social media, due to changes in search algorithms and artificial intelligence, he said. In another sign of the decline in legacy “news” media, the Associated Press announced layoffs amid losses in revenue and audience share. The Associated Press said Monday it would begin offering buyouts and lay off selected employees, part of a plan to reduce the news outlet’s… pic.twitter.com/fscxwCyb91 — Wall Street Mav (@WallStreetMav) November 18, 2024 Per Axios: AP is a not-for-profit agency, which means its profits must be reinvested further into the organization. In recent years, it’s pushed to grow its income by investing in different business areas, like advertising. But the broader ad market is slow for news companies right now. In a note to staff, AP’s CEO Daisy Veerasingham said the company plans to reduce its workforce by 8% through a combination of buyouts and layoffs. Less than half of the staff reductions will impact the news division, she noted. The company will offer a voluntary separation plan to a small number of eligible staff, based on department, role and length of employment, Veerasingham wrote. She added that the AP has reached a tentative agreement with the News Media Guild to extend the buyout offer to some of its unionized staff in the U.S. that’s subject to union ratification. In another blow to legacy media, CNN expects its looming layoffs to impact hundreds of employees. The firings may affect on-air talent. DEVELOPING: Massive Layoffs Expected At CNN, May Impact ‘High-Paid Staff’

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