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Headline News
Consumer Action updates daily, headline news from a variety of news sources. The archive provides access in reverse chronological order, grouped by year, than month to allow for easier browsing.
- Headlines | Small retailers embrace efforts to rein In swipe fees
- Headlines | When scammers weaponize your emotions
- Headlines | Scammers are stealing billions from Americans’ bank accounts
- Headlines | What the election could mean for student loan borrowers
- Headlines | Want to stop robocalls?
- Headlines | Celebrating 50 years of Equal Credit Opportunity
- Headlines | New rules for airlines to help you get speedy refunds
- Headlines | Here’s what you need to know with popular payment apps
- Headlines | F.T.C. finds Meta, YouTube, TikTok collect more data than most users realize
- Headlines | Instagram’s new ‘teen accounts’
- Headlines | Are we moving toward a cashless, checkless society?
- Chinese Headlines | Consumer Action Devices Warranty & California Right to Repair Act Presentation
- Headlines | The uncertain future of student loan repayment explained
- Chinese Headlines | CFPB proposed multilingual mortgage service for LEP homeowners
- Headlines | Think twice before buying a car-repair contract
- Headlines | Your flight is stuck on the tarmac. What do airlines owe you?
- Headlines | New airline passenger rights explained
- Headlines | CFPB plans to remove medical debt from credit reports
- Headlines | There’s a little-known program to cancel private student debt
- Chinese Headlines | Consumer Action provide 2024 devices warranty information community education
- Headlines | Justice Department sues to break up Live Nation, Ticketmaster
- Headlines | Consumers with Buy-Now Pay-Later disputes are to get protection
- Headlines | Supreme Court rejects challenge to consumer watchdog’s funding
- Headlines | Consumer groups push Congress to uphold automatic airline refunds
- Headlines | Apple, Google & Venmo fight new plan to monitor payment apps
- Headlines | New airline rules: Automatic refunds and no more hidden fees
- Headlines | Lawmakers unveil plan to expand online privacy protections
- Headlines | AT&T data breach affects 73M current, former customers
- Headlines | In hospitals, affordable housing gets the long-term investor it needs
- Headlines | Drug companies push to block law that would cut prescription prices
- Headlines | How a healthcare cyberattack may affect your prescription drug access
- Headlines | U.S. caps credit card late fees
- Headlines | Your tax return is secret. TurboTax wants you to give up your privacy
- Headlines | Do not trust the Google airline customer service numbers
- Headlines | The way big banks shut down customer accounts is callous. Let’s fix it.
- Headlines | Here’s why you should check your credit report
- Headlines | Biden administration cancels $1.2B in student loans
- Headlines | Nonprofit steps in to provide mortgages where others won’t
- Headlines | Pros and cons of second-chance checking accounts
- Headlines | Hard to reverse peer-to-peer payment scams on Venmo, PayPal, Zelle
- Chinese Headlines | Consumer Action Community Outreach at Oakland Chinese New Year Event
- Headlines | N.Y. AG sues Citi for failing to protect fraud victims
- Headlines | How to file your taxes for free
- Headlines | Why big banks—and odd allies—oppose a plan to protect banks
- Headlines | FTC bans firm from selling phone location data
- Headlines | Rent reporting is affecting tenants’ credit scores
- Headlines | The FAFSA rollout has been rough on students
- Headlines | Millions to lose affordable internet unless Congress extends subsidies
- Headlines | Some older Americans feel trapped in Medicare Advantage plans
- Headlines | What to do after you’ve been scammed