Health authorities are investigating a new outbreak of the potentially fatal foodborne bacteria Listeria monocytogenes, but have not yet identified its source.

The Food and Drug Administration said Friday that 11 people have fallen ill in connection with the outbreak.

Investigators have so far been unable to determine where or how those patients were exposed.

The FDA has released no additional details, including the patients’ locations or ages. Because the source remains unknown, people across the United States could potentially be at risk.

Listeria is a leading cause of severe foodborne illness in the US. Symptoms may include diarrhea, vomiting, fever and chills resembling the flu. In more serious infections, the bacteria can enter the bloodstream and trigger sepsis, a potentially life-threatening condition.

The FDA has not announced a recall connected to the outbreak.

Officials have also issued no guidance on specific foods or products to avoid. During previous listeria investigations, however, consumers were advised to thoroughly clean and sanitize surfaces, utensils and containers that could be contaminated.

Consumers have also been urged to cook food thoroughly before eating it. Listeria cannot survive temperatures above 149F (65C).

The outbreak appeared in the FDA’s latest online update on ongoing foodborne illness investigations, although the agency has not issued a public alert.

The agency said it has started tracing the illnesses and interviewing patients as investigators work to identify a possible common source.

Recent FDA data show that three listeria outbreaks are currently active.

The latest investigation follows a separate active listeria outbreak disclosed on September 23 that has sickened 44 people.

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Another outbreak, reported July 22, has also affected 11 people and remains under investigation. The FDA has not identified its source.

Officials cautioned that the confirmed figures may represent only a fraction of the true number of illnesses. They estimate that for every documented outbreak case, roughly 29 additional cases go unrecorded.

The Daily Mail contacted the FDA seeking further information.

Listeria naturally occurs in damp environments, including soil, water, decaying plant matter and animals. Unlike many bacteria, it can survive refrigeration and other food-preservation methods.

Potential sources include unpasteurized milk, soft cheeses and ready-to-eat products such as packaged sandwiches.

Cooked shellfish, cured meat and fish—including sushi—as well as pre-cut fruit can also carry the bacteria.

An estimated 1,250 Americans contract listeria infections each year, while approximately 250 die from the disease, according to available data.

For most healthy people, a Listeria infection causes mild intestinal illness and they can recover on their own without antibiotics. 

However, if the bacteria spread beyond the gut, the infection can become far more serious, causing fever, muscle aches, headache, stiff neck, confusion, loss of balance and seizures, sometimes following diarrhea or other gastrointestinal symptoms.

Those with invasive listeriosis generally require antibiotic treatment and hospitalization, with older adults, pregnant women, newborns and people with weakened immune systems at greatest risk of severe illness. 

The CDC estimates that about one in five people with listeriosis die from the infection, making it one of the deadliest foodborne illnesses in the US

Pregnant women, elderly people and those with compromised immune systems are most at risk for contracting this bacteria. It can also cause miscarriages and stillbirths among pregnant women.

WASHINGTON — The future of an Alaska liquefied natural gas pipeline is uncertain after South Korean officials said key conditions still need to be satisfied, just one day after President Trump announced a $54 billion investment from Seoul.

South Korea’s interior ministry said no decision had been made on either investing in the project or determining the size of any investment. The ministry did not rule out interest in the proposed 807-mile pipeline, which would carry natural gas from Alaska’s North Slope to markets in Asia.

Trump said South Korean funds would support construction of eight large-scale nuclear power plants, a six-gigawatt power generation facility in Texas and the Alaska pipeline. At an event attended by Sen. Dan Sullivan, R-Alaska, the president described the pipeline as a “huge” deal for the state.

The White House said the investment was included in $350 billion in U.S. investments pledged by Seoul under a trade agreement reached in July 2025.

South Korean President Lee Jae Myung, however, said the pipeline would move forward only if several requirements were met.

“Among the US investment projects announced by the United States, the Alaska LNG project will proceed to working level under the preconditions that 1) its commercial viability is confirmed and 2) it complies with the legal procedures of the Republic of Korea,” Lee wrote in a post on X.

South Korea’s Industry Minister Kim Jung Kwan also criticized the U.S. announcement, saying it overstated the agreement between the two countries.

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“Putting out figures, or using definitive language, goes far beyond what was agreed,” he told reporters. Kim said he had spoken with Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick to express his dismay.

White House spokeswoman Taylor Rogers did not address Seoul’s objections, instead calling the joint announcement “historic for the great state of Alaska, the United States, and the Republic of Korea.”

“The President and Alaskans look forward to the construction and completion of this long-anticipated project that will create 12,000 construction jobs and 1,300 permanent operation jobs in the state, generate $25 billion in state and local revenue, and provide $10 billion in Alaska energy savings,” Rogers said.

Wednesday’s announcement was among a series of manufacturing and job initiatives the White House planned to highlight before the Nov. 3 midterm election, as it seeks to bolster Republican candidates.

Sullivan, who faces a difficult reelection campaign against former Democratic Rep. Mary Peltola, has strongly backed the pipeline. His seat is viewed as essential to Republicans’ effort to retain control of the Senate after Trump carried Alaska by double digits in the 2024 election.

Trump called the project “a gigantic win for the people of Alaska” and said it could “create up to 12,000 construction jobs immediately.”

“In our trade agreement with South Korea, they have to invest hundreds of billions of dollars, and for doing that, I reduced their tariffs to 15%. But they paid to get them reduced, and part of that money is going into this project,” the president said.

Experts estimate that the pipeline would take at least five years to begin operating after construction starts.

Canadian astronaut Joshua Kutryk carried a small piece of family history into orbit Thursday: a pocket watch more than a century old. The heirloom traveled with him aboard the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft, launched on a Falcon 9 rocket as part of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-13 mission to the International Space Station.

Kutryk, a fourth-generation Ukrainian Canadian, joked that he brought the watch because he needed something to keep track of time. More meaningfully, however, the timepiece has remained in his family since the generation before him and serves as a reminder of how dramatically both his family and the wider world have changed.

Speaking at a prelaunch news conference in August, Kutryk said the watch gives him a chance to reflect on the extraordinary progress of the past 100 years. He also wondered what humanity might achieve over the next century if it makes the right choices.

Weather concerns threatened to complicate the launch, but the Falcon 9 and Dragon lifted off successfully at 11:10 a.m. ET from Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. Kutryk launched alongside NASA astronauts Jessica Watkins and Luke Delaney, as well as Roscosmos cosmonaut Sergey Teteryatnikov.

Moments before liftoff, launch controllers praised the crew’s dedication to human spaceflight and offered wishes of “Godspeed.” Watkins responded by thanking the NASA, SpaceX, Canadian Space Agency and Roscosmos teams whose work made the mission possible. She said Crew-13 was ready to fly with gratitude for everyone involved.

The astronauts are expected to reach the space station in 7 hours and 50 minutes, with docking planned for 7 p.m. ET. NASA said that, if the schedule held, Crew-13 would complete the fastest journey to the ISS on record.

The Dragon’s hatch is scheduled to open at approximately 8:45 p.m. ET. After a short handover with Crew-12, which has lived aboard the station since February, the outgoing astronauts could begin their return to Earth as soon as Monday, Oct. 5.

Watkins is making her second journey into space, while Delaney, Kutryk and Teteryatnikov are spaceflight rookies. Together, the Crew-13 astronauts are expected to spend roughly six months aboard the International Space Station.

Their research will include studies aimed at improving treatment for heart disease and Parkinson’s disease. NASA said the crew will examine tissues created from human stem cells to support advances in medicine, disease modeling and drug testing. Other investigations will focus on growing crops for future long-duration missions, understanding changes in blood flow in space and evaluating new equipment designed to monitor astronaut health, according to Dana Weigel, manager of NASA’s Low Earth Orbit Program at the Johnson Space Center.

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Crew-13 is flying under NASA’s Commercial Crew Program, which uses private spacecraft to transport astronauts to and from low Earth orbit.

The timing of the rendezvous was helped by orbital mechanics. Bill Gerstenmaier, SpaceX’s vice president of Build and Flight Reliability, said the station and Dragon were positioned at nearly ideal angles after a recent station maneuver, creating unusually favorable conditions for the approach.

Lori Glaze, NASA’s associate administrator for the Human Spaceflight Mission Directorate, said the new crew would quickly settle in after arrival. The transition period with Crew-12 is expected to be relatively brief before the previous team prepares to head home early the following week.

The launch had been postponed in August after environmental inspections uncovered a mechanical problem involving an oxidizer leak in Dragon’s propulsion system. SpaceX also investigated unexpected issues with the spacecraft’s GPS and a rocket-engine motor microcontroller. Following a Launch Readiness Review on Wednesday afternoon, NASA and SpaceX cleared the mission for liftoff.

Gerstenmaier acknowledged that the spacecraft had presented several surprises during preparations, but emphasized that crew safety remained the overriding priority. He said teams would continue examining the data, reviewing previous records and verifying every system before proceeding with the flight.

Although the number 13 is often associated with bad luck, the astronauts have embraced the designation. Their mission patch draws inspiration from Apollo 13, including a golden dragon modeled after the three golden horses featured on that historic mission’s emblem.

November will mark 26 years of uninterrupted human habitation aboard the space station. Since that continuous presence began, more than 280 astronauts representing 26 countries and the station’s five international partners have spent time aboard the ISS.

PLYMOUTH, Mass. — Lindsay Clancy’s defense attorney, Kevin Reddington, is rejecting suggestions that he shifted his courtroom strategy Tuesday by questioning whether prosecutors proved Clancy killed her three children. He said he has challenged the strength of the Commonwealth’s case since the outset.

In an interview with Fox News contributor Billy Bush on his “Hot Mics” podcast, Reddington described the investigation into his client as “horrific” and “atrocious.” His comments came after he argued in court that prosecutors had not presented sufficient evidence to establish Clancy’s guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.

“That’s exactly what I was saying,” Reddington said in the interview after Clancy returned to court for the first time since her mistrial. “I’ve been arguing that from the very beginning. I argued it in a closing argument to the jury. I argued it in our motions.”

Reddington was arguing a Rule 25 motion seeking a required finding of not guilty. Through the motion, he is asking the court to determine that the evidence presented at trial was insufficient to support a conviction.

“Where’s the evidence that she did this?” Reddington asked Judge William Sullivan in court Tuesday, as he outlined what he characterized as inadequate evidence and unreliable statements. “Where is the evidence she did this?”

Reddington’s arguments on the required finding of not guilty drew national attention, but Sullivan issued no rulings and postponed arguments on other pending motions until Nov. 2. The delay left many following the case, including Bush, frustrated by the lack of immediate answers.

“He didn’t get any answers on the insufficiency of evidence,” Bush told News Media Wednesday. “He wanted, immediately, her to be declared not criminally responsible because of that. I think that was a stretch. He probably knew it. He brought in his double jeopardy expert, Martin Weinberg. That was punted to Nov. 2. That wasn’t immediately successful. And the alleged juror misconduct, we didn’t get anything on that because Judge Sullivan, Reddington told us, impounded that information. We want to see the jury questionnaire. Everybody wants to see it.”

Sullivan declared a mistrial on Sept. 4 after jurors were unable to reach a verdict following approximately a week of deliberations.

Rule 25 motions are common but rarely succeed, according to Carol Erskine, a retired Massachusetts judge and child welfare advocate who has closely followed the case.

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“He is arguing that [they] did not prove each and every element as required by law,” she told News Media. “I understand why people don’t get this, but he had to argue sufficiency of evidence under Rule 25(b)(2) case law. He told the judge he asked for a Bowden instruction and was denied, which meant he was challenging the poor investigation/search at the home by police. It’s a very nuanced argument.”

Plymouth County prosecutors took a sharply different view of Reddington’s position, calling it “a laughable argument” and urging the judge to reject the motion.

Clancy is scheduled to return to court Nov. 2 for a motions hearing. No date has been set for a possible retrial.

As Clancy’s legal future remains unresolved, Reddington has attracted attention of his own outside the courthouse. Bush said the prominent Massachusetts defense attorney frequently interacts with journalists covering the trial and has built a national profile, earning nicknames such as “Big Red” and “Shreddington.”

“Big Red goes out to the parking lot,” Bush said. “He talks to the different people who are covering this in their own way. He asks them questions about themselves. He sits there in a lawn chair, having coffee and connecting with everybody.”

Bush said Reddington’s supporters also include a substantial number of women following the case.

“They support Lindsay Clancy,” he said.

“But they love Reddington because he’s the man who’s fighting for her,” he added. “And they’re all seeing him as that guy, ‘Geez, I’d like that man fighting for me someday, if I needed it.'”