A luxury shampoo is being recalled nationwide due to concerns the product may be contaminated with bacteria, according to the Food and Drug Administration.

Kao USA Inc. is voluntarily recalling select lots of Oribe Serene Scalp Densifying Shampoo in the U.S. and Canada after Pluralibacter gergoviae bacteria was found during testing.

The company said Oribe Serene Scalp Densifying Shampoo in 8.5-ounce and 33.8-ounce sizes that were manufactured between Feb. 21, 2026 and Feb. 26, 2026 could be impacted.

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A woman shampooing her hair in the shower. (Getty Images)

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The 8.5-ounce bottle costs $52, according to the Oribe website.

AFFECTED PRODUCTS

• Oribe Serene Scalp Densifying Shampoo 8.5-ounce bottle (UPC 840035231242), lot code YR010556
• Oribe Serene Scalp Densifying Shampoo 33.8-ounce bottle (UPC 840035231273), lot codes YR010566 and YR010576

Affected lot codes are found on the bottom of the bottle printed in black.

The FDA said Pluralibacter gergoviae bacteria pose “little medical risk” to healthy people, but “those with certain health issues such as weakened immune systems may be more susceptible to infection by the bacteria.”

The 8.5-ounce bottle costs $52, according to the Oribe website. (Getty Images)

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“We are working with the FDA to voluntarily recall the affected lots of the product in question from our warehouses,” Kao USA said in a statement. “We are also asking retail and salon partners to remove affected lots from use and/or sale and return them to us for safe disposal.”

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The FDA said Pluralibacter gergoviae bacteria pose “little medical risk” to healthy people. (Sarah Silbiger/Getty Images)

Anyone who has the affected products should stop using them, Kao USA said in the recall announcement.

The company said consumers can contact the Kao Professional Hair Technical Hotline by phone or email to arrange for a replacement or to report adverse events experienced when using the product.

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A billionaire’s contribution helped the U.S. men’s national team secure the services of Mauricio Pochettino as the team’s head coach two years ago, as the squad now looks to progress into the World Cup quarterfinals as one of the competition’s host nations.

Citadel founder and CEO Ken Griffin provided the largest philanthropic contribution as a group of benefactors worked to bring Pochettino, an Argentine who previously served as the manager of several of the world’s most prominent club soccer teams, including Tottenham, Paris Saint-Germain and Chelsea.

Pochettino’s base salary is a little over $6 million after calculating an annualized pay rate based on figures from the U.S. Soccer Federation’s most recent tax filings, which represented a significant boost from his predecessor’s salary.

“Mauricio has a well-deserved reputation for excellence, high standards, and bringing out the best in the teams he leads,” Griffin recently told The Wall Street Journal. “Those are timeless qualities I admire, and they are exactly what U.S. Soccer needed at this moment.”

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U.S. head coach Mauricio Pochettino speaks with Folarin Balogun and Weston McKennie during the FIFA World Cup 2026 round of 32 match between the USA and Bosnia and Herzegovina in Santa Clara, California. (John Dorton/USSF/Getty Images)

Securing Pochettino as the head coach of the U.S. men’s national team in 2024 helped set the stage for the team’s success at World Cup 2026, which the U.S. is hosting along with Canada and Mexico.

The U.S. defeated Paraguay 4-1 in its opening group stage match and then clinched the top spot in the group with a 2-0 win over Australia, advancing into the competition’s knockout stage despite a 3-2 loss to Turkey in the final match of the group stage.

Team USA followed that up with a 2-0 win over Bosnia and Herzegovina in the round of 32, despite a controversial red card issued to striker Folarin Balogun that was subsequently suspended by FIFA, allowing him to avoid a one-match ban.

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The final of World Cup 2026 will be held at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey. (Marc Atkins/Getty Images)

That set the stage for Team USA’s round of 16 matchup with Belgium, which will be played Monday night in Seattle.

A win to advance into the quarterfinals would mark the deepest World Cup run for Team USA since 2002, and Pochettino’s leadership has instilled a “why not us?” mentality in the team that helped spur the results to put the team on the brink of a historic result on its home soil.

Griffin’s interest in supporting the team developed out of a lifelong love of the sport, as he grew up a soccer fan and played the sport in high school and college.

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Citadel CEO Ken Griffin was recognized as the U.S. Soccer Federation’s most impactful philanthropist with the group’s #10 Award. (Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images)

He has also coached his children’s soccer teams, and has made donations through a philanthropic organization called Griffin Catalyst.

Griffin donated $3 million in 2017 to fund 50 mini-pitches in Chicago and $5 million in 2023 to build another 50 mini-pitches in Miami-Dade County to expand access to safe soccer fields in underserved communities.

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Earlier this year, Griffin was given the U.S. Soccer Federation’s #10 Award as the group’s most impactful philanthropist ahead of the World Cup.

Former President Joe Biden’s border policies forced Americans to shoulder economic burdens through rising rents and lower wages, former acting ICE Director Jonathan Fahey argued Monday.

“The American people overall are the losers on illegal migration,” Fahey told FOX Business’ Cheryl Casone.

“Certainly, certain industries benefit from it, but the overall, it makes more sense what President Trump and his administration are doing, which is focusing on policies that protect American workers and make their wages rise.”

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Then-President Joe Biden speaks at Stupak Community Center on March 19, 2024 in Las Vegas, Nev. (Ian Maule/Getty Images / Getty Images)

Joining “Mornings With Maria” following the July 4 weekend, Fahey criticized the previous administration’s approach to illegal immigration, pointing to a Federal Reserve working paper that found the record surge in illegal immigration during Biden’s tenure was associated with higher home prices and rents.

The paper, published by the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, combines immigration court records with government administrative data to measure how the unprecedented wave of illegal immigration between 2021 and 2024 affected local labor and housing markets.

The authors caution the study is a preliminary draft circulated for professional comment and does not necessarily reflect the views of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas or the Federal Reserve System.

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A U.S. Border Patrol agent speaks to immigrants blocked from entering a high-traffic illegal border crossing area along Rio Grande in El Paso, Texas on Dec. 20, 2022 as viewed from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. (Getty Images)

Previous reporting found the influx of illegal immigrants boosted employment with little measurable effect on wages but significantly increased housing demand.

Fahey made a similar argument, linking the population surge to increased demand across multiple sectors.

“That’s really just common sense. You bring in over 10 million people. They didn’t bring any homes with them. Prices are going to rise,” he explained.

“But we also had wages [go] down during the Biden administration because of it. Also, things like health care gets more expensive. No doctors, nurses, or hospitals came across the border, or very few doctors and nurses or anyone else, so that made that more expensive.”

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The preliminary report’s findings, however, suggested that a 1% increase in unauthorized workers relative to a local labor force corresponded with roughly a 1% increase in overall employment, with no evidence that the immigration surge reduced average wages.

At the same time, the population increase was associated with a roughly 2.2% rise in home prices and a 1.4% increase in rents, reflecting an additional demand shock in an already strained housing market.

FOX Business’ Amanda Macias contributed to this report.

President Donald Trump‘s ongoing reforms to the American retirement system are getting inspiration from Down Under.

The Trump administration is working on an Australia-style retirement savings plan for American workers, suggesting the model could put people in “much better shape” by retirement age, the president said Monday.

“I made reference today that Australia has a thing going that’s very good – it’s really worked out very well,” Trump said during a Rose Garden lunch Monday, touting his new “Trump accounts” program for children. “We’re looking at that very strongly. We’re going to be taking that, and we’re going to be maybe making it a little bit sharper, a little bit even better. But we’re going to be doing that.”

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and other administration officials were already working on the proposal, according to Trump, who described it as a companion effort to the children’s investment accounts launched under his sweeping tax-and-spending law.

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President Donald Trump wants to bring his “Trump Account” success forward to help American workers with Australian-style retirement savings plans. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

“That would be more for grown-ups, as opposed to children,” Trump said earlier Monday in the Oval Office, adding that the administration would discuss the idea with Congress and “try very hard” to get it done.

Australia’s retirement system is built around “superannuation,” a mandatory savings program that requires employers to contribute 12% of a worker’s ordinary earnings into tax-favored retirement accounts managed largely by private funds, according to the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College.

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Trump first floated interest in the Australian model in December while announcing a $6.25 billion donation from Michael and Susan Dell for Trump Accounts, saying at the time that the administration was studying a plan for “working people.”

The renewed push comes as lawmakers face pressure over the long-term finances of Social Security. The Center for Retirement Research has argued that while Australia’s system is highly rated internationally, the U.S. would still need to shore up Social Security and expand access to workplace retirement plans to meaningfully improve retirement security.

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“It’s something that’s going to be great, I think, if we can get it done,” Trump said in the Oval Office.

Ford Explorer owners may be surprised to learn that the auto part responsible for a series of recalls isn’t related to the SUV’s engine, but a $5 plastic clip that can be easily replaced.

The motor giant has issued three recalls for the fifth-generation Ford Explorer for plastic retention pins that can detach, allowing various parts to come loose, including the A- and B-pillar trim, and roof rail covers, CarBuzz reported.

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Ford Explorer vehicles at a Ford dealership in Richmond, California, US, on Wednesday, April 16, 2025. Millions of recalled Ford Explorers have been recalled due to a simple plastic pin, according to reports.  (David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images / Getty Images)

Despite being cheap to replace, the defective pins have been responsible for more than two million Ford recall notices issued by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA).

In more than 500,000 late fifth-generation Explorers, the retention pins “could loosen and allow the roof rail covers to detach from the vehicle,” resulting in pieces falling off the car and creating a road hazard, the report states.

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FILE – Ford Motor Co. signage is displayed outside of a dealership as the General Motors Co. (GM) headquarters building stands in the distance in Detroit, Michigan, U.S., on Monday, April 1, 2013.  (Jeff Kowalsky/Bloomberg via Getty Images  / Getty Images)

A January 2024 recall said the vehicle’s A-pillar could pop loose and detach. Ford chose to inspect the impacted vehicles and issue a replacement.

In a previous statement to FOX Business, back when the A-pillar trim recall was first issued in early 2024, Ford said it expected “only 5% of the vehicle population to be affected.”

Ford Motor Co is recalling nearly 617,00 Explorer sport utility vehicles in the United States at the request of regulators because retention pins could loosen and allow roof rail covers to detach from the vehicle. (Photo by Anton NovoderezhkinTASS vi (Anton Novoderezhkin\TASS via Getty Images)

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The B-pillar recall impacted hundreds of thousands of Explorers in a May 2023 recall in which the exterior door trim could be lost while driving.

Ford’s fix in this instance involved a simple inspection and replacement of the part.

FOX Business has reached out to Ford.

Throughout the July 4th 250 weekend, President Trump’s speeches, especially at Mount Rushmore and the National Mall, really made two key points. One was the greatness of America, the home of Freedom, the land of liberty, a country whose founding creed was that its citizens receive their rights from God our creator. 

Hence some of the greatest words in history: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”

Here’s the president at the National Mall on Saturday: “This country is the home of freedom. This is the land of liberty.” He added: “we’re celebrating freedom’s triumph over tyranny. Liberty’s conquest over oppression, and the enduring victory of the American spirit.”

Another of his key themes this weekend is that we will never let socialism or communism take over this country. Here’s the president on that: “The entire world has been on notice that Americans will never let anyone take our freedom away. Won’t happen. And all these talks from the communists, they haven’t got a chance.” Mr. Trump added that “communism is a loser, and it always will be, calling it “a mortal threat to American liberty. It is the greatest threat to our country, including World War I, World War II, Pearl Harbor, or even 9/11. We’re not going to let this happen to us.”

These are universal themes that span from the American founding all the way to the present 250th anniversary. Yet I would bet that these would also be important campaign themes for the upcoming midterm elections.

The Democratic party has badly boxed itself in by accepting this wave of antisemitic socialism and communism launched by the anti-American mayor of New York, Zohran Mamdani, and AOC and her growing contingent of radicals. The Democrats are going to be stuck with this come November.  

The party leaders have caved into antisemitism and socialism and perhaps communism which knows no bounds, whatever you want to call it, it is surely not freedom and free enterprise. If you need any proof of that besides the collapse of the old Soviet Union, and the current collapse of communist Cuba, here’s one of my favorite stats: per-person gross domestic product in America is slightly over $90,000. Per person GDP in authoritarian statist Communist China, it’s slightly less than $14,000.

America has grown over the past several 100 years by nearly 3.5 percent adjusted for inflation. No country can possibly match that record. And meanwhile, just reading some of our leading economists and what they are saying, people like Kevin Hassett in the White House, or Ed Yardeni, Ed Hyman, Jason Trennert on Wall Street and many others, think of this: real GDP will hit an all-time record high this year. Not even the Covid lockdown could stop it.

Stocks are soaring. Profits and productivity are breaking records, business is booming, consumers are spending, household net worth is a staggering $170 trillion and on and on. Communism is a complete failure. Just look at the numbers. Free enterprise is the greatest prosperity machine raising living standards to unbelievable heights that history has ever seen. And that’s why America keeps on winning.