A slate of reformers unleashed the fury of the Florida GOP and its business elite, and left two men facing garbage felony charges.

A powerful earthquake struck southeastern Turkey early Monday local time, killing dozens of people and razing buildings across the country and over the border in Syria. The big picture: The magnitude 7.8 quake strick at 4:17 local time (01:17 GMT) at a depth of 11 mile near Gaziantep, a major city and capital of the Gaziantep Province near the border with Syria, per the United States Geological Survey (USGS). Tremors were felt in Lebanon and Egypt.

The first approved COVID-19 vaccines were tested for protection against versions of SARS-CoV-2 that had not changed much since the virus was first identified. These vaccines come in different types — some are composed of messenger RNA, others are inactivated versions of the coronavirus itself or some of its proteins — but all work by exposing the body to antigens (portions of the virus) to provoke an immune response without causing disease.

The only person on that list younger than David was Michael Kearney, who still holds the Guinness world record for youngest high school graduate that he set when he was six in 1990 before he ultimately obtained a master’s degree at 18 and winning more than $1m on gameshows. David would come in higher on that list than Pulitzer prize-winning journalist Ronan Farrow, who was 11 when he finished high school.

After Robert Opel dashed naked across the stage in 1974, he ran for President and settled into the gay leather scene, in the orbit of Robert Mapplethorpe and Harvey Milk.

SFMTA runs trains on a storage format that can’t even hold a hi-res image. San Francisco already knew that its transit agency resorted to plastic beer-pong cups to stop leaks in the Central Subway tunnel before it officially opened for service. Now it turns out the SF Municipal Transportation Agency is using woefully outdated technology for crucial operations: 5-inch floppy disks. “Our train control system in the Market Street subway is loaded off of five-and-a-quarter inch floppy drives,” SFMTA director Jeffrey Tumlin told KQED’s Priya David Clemens this week. In other words, some of the frustration we experience when the N-Judah wreaks havoc on our commutes can be pinned on technology that was popularized by IBM during the Reagan Administration. Perhaps more ominously—or as a subtle call for a federal cash boost—Tumlin compared the situation to Southwest Airlines’ recent meltdown.

"I received a phone call from the finance manager of the dealership," Darren Johnson says. The manager told them the financing for the car had fallen through and if the couple wanted to keep it, they had to come back and sign a contract with different terms. "I was kind of confused," Johnson says. "I thought this was a legally binding contract. ... We've had this vehicle at home. What do you mean it's not financed?" Most of us would be confused too. But odds are good that in the paperwork you signed when you bought your own car, there was some legal language saying the sale may not really be final. It often asserts that if the car dealer has trouble with the financing on its end after the sale, it can later cancel the deal, try to get you to agree to different terms, and take the car back if you refuse.

The New York Rep. reportedly told donors he worked as a producer on the Spider-Man musical that couldn't stop breaking its Spider-Men

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The Pentagon also acknowledged reports of a second balloon flying over Latin America. “We now assess it is another Chinese surveillance balloon,” Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder, Pentagon press secretary, said in a statement. China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs did not immediately respond to a question about the second balloon. This isn’t the first time Chinese spy balloons have crossed into U.S. airspace in recent years, one of the officials said. At least three times during the Trump administration and at least one other time during Biden’s time as president they’ve seen balloons cross, but not for this long, the official said.

One month after a flood displaced hundreds of residents from their East Oakland homes, they still have no idea when they’ll be able to return.  Storms deluged the parking garage at the Coliseum Connections property on 71st Avenue with several feet of water, submerging cars and forcing residents to evacuate on New Year’s Day. Most residents were relocated to a nearby hotel. After the water was drained over the course of several days, city inspectors discovered damage to many parts of the electrical system, said spokesperson Jean Walsh. PG&E had shut off the electricity the day of the flood to avoid safety hazards. But property management failed to apply for the required permits to begin the necessary electrical repairs, prompting Oakland to issue a notice of violation on Jan. 17. The complex, which opened in 2019, is owned by Michael Johnson, CEO of UrbanCore Development, and managed by FPI, a California company with numerous properties in Oakland and around the country. Coliseum Connections was built on BART land, and the agency gets some of the rent profits.

For Dahl, his favorite part of living in the former laundromat is the sense of community he gets from his neighbors because it reminds him of his childhood. The 27-year-old grew up on a commune in Texas that he described as “not a cult [but] a nonprofit humanitarian organization that did disaster relief and homeless outreach.”

Now, new photos from a 2007 performance by Mitchell seem to show obvious modifications to the machine used to earn at least one of those scores, a fascinating new piece of evidence in the long, contentious battle over Mitchell's place in Donkey Kong score-chasing history.

Emergency crews are on the scene of a building fire caused by a train derailment in East Palestine.

The operator of the major sushi restaurant chain Sushiro has said it will temporarily limit the use of conveyor belts to specifically ordered food after a customer was found to have misused and licked unused cups and sushi. The move comes after videos of unhygienic behavior by customers at various restaurants racked up millions of views online, leading Akindo Sushiro to file a complaint against a customer earlier this week [which]… sparked stock slumps, venue overhauls and legal action, along with furious social media commentary. Several videos dubbed “sushi terrorism” have emerged on social media, including Twitter and TikTok in recent days, some of them apparently weeks or even years old.

The bird’s name was Poll and was originally meant for Jackson’s wife, Rachel. But after she passed away, Jackson became the African Grey’s caretaker. So how did the parrot get a foul mouth? We can’t say for sure. But with what we know about Jackson—a man so tough and temperamental his nickname was “Old Hickory”—it’s safe to assume the bird picked up the habit straight from his owner. On June 8, 1845, the country’s seventh Commander in Chief passed away from unknown complications. Thousands gathered to pay their respects, including Poll, who squawked, squeaked and swore like a sailor.

Geraghty exudes the conspiratorial mindset that afflicts conservative thinking.

John Michael Musbach used the dark web to pay for the hit in 2016 to prevent the teen from testifying against him in a child sex abuse case, authorities said.

Critics of the show claim it makes a joke out of 'locker room culture' but the broadcaster says it could have easily made it 'about a woman with no control over her vagina.'

“I’m not paying a dime to Elon lol.”