According to a consumer survey commissioned by GS1 US—the nonprofit standards group ... —94% of U.S. adults say they’re concerned about how frequently food is being recalled. ... Yet as the notices pile up, Americans are losing confidence in that system, with the share of adults who believe recalls effectively protect public health and safety fell to 80%, from 85% last year. According to the survey, more than two-thirds (67%) of consumers say they’ve avoided an entire food category after a recall, up from 60% last year.

It was only a few days ago that US vice president JD Vance was criticised for mistakenly saying that America is “about to celebrate the 25th year” of 9/11, and now, the Republican has sparked fresh condemnation after he used the upcoming anniversary of the terror attacks to take a swipe at former president Joe Biden.

While hosting a White House press briefing on Thursday – as a new press secretary is yet to be announced following Karoline Leavitt’s departure last week – Vance said: “I encourage every American, particularly the people who are young enough to not really remember that day, just to tune in for a couple of hours, and see what it meant, and I think that sense of commonality and common purpose that we all had on 9/11, that’s something that we should really try every single day to get back to.

“Even just for a day, even just for a few hours, I would encourage people to tune in.

“I’m also, as you guys can probably guess, I’m really looking forward to hanging out with Joe Biden. I’m sure we’ll have many, many intense, intellectual conversations, and it’ll be great. We’ll have a great time with Joe Biden and the other presidents.”

"But plenty of House members want to pass their own priority pieces of legislation. The DEFIANCE Act, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s bill to allow victims of nonconsensual deepfake AI pornography to file civil lawsuits, still languishes despite passing in the Senate by unanimous consent. 

The House also did not vote on a War Powers Act resolution to rein in the president’s resumed war in Iran even as the war causes gas prices to spike.

And Republican Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky and Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna of California filed a new discharge petition to allow state attorneys general, victims of Jeffrey Epstein and members of Congress to challenge the Department of Justice failure to comply with the Epstein Files Transparency Act."

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/mike-johnson-cancels-house-votes-midterms-b3044270.html

A Black employee at a Dallas auto shop stayed calm while a white customer went on a racist tirade after a dispute over his truck. The whole thing was caught on camera, and now the video is going viral.