News Headlines
Taken from the front pages of newspapers around the nation, News Headlines is your source for consumer issues. Access current and archived News Headlines collected by Consumer Action. News Headlines are listed in reverse chronological order, grouped by year, then month to allow for easier browsing.
- AOL removes search data on Web users
- Shopping carts not a safe place for kids
- At online stores, an offer to chat
- Trend: sharp property tax increases
- Retirement tax breaks permanently extended
- House bill reforms FHA lending programs
- Next frontier for spammers: text messaging
- Data breaches: Congress still dithering
- Senate approves pension protection bill
- More airline passengers getting bumped
- Senate rejects minimum wage bill
- Get Human website fakes out phone trees
- Guard against ID theft
- Cybercrooks find new ways to invade all PCs
- Students warned about networking sites
- Sales tax holiday for back to school shoppers
- California sues payday loan business
- New way to password your credit cards
- AOL users get free email
- American Express revamps rewards program
- Best credit cards for college kids
- California urged to cap military payday loans
- Cingular adds surcharge for older handsets
- House overwhelmingly passes FHA reform legislation
- ‘Spoofing’ fools caller ID systems
- Banks offer customers credit card perks
- No limit credit cards may hurt credit score
- Auto accident claims plummet, insurers profit
- Minimum wage fight heads to the Senate
- People confused and angry with Medicare drug plan
- Plan before locking in CD investment
- Make funeral plans, spare survivors stress
- Not all bank accounts are FDIC insured
- House turns deaf ear on patient privacy
- U.S. seeks employers’ aid on immigration
- Medical tourism takes off
- Data may be exposed at IRS
- Conquer the currency conversion conundrum
- $336 million settlement in credit card currency conversion case
- Custom credit cards distract from rates/terms
- Should kids be left fortunes?
- Income tax cuts must be offset elsewhere
- Vishing: A new twist in identity theft
- Hillary Clinton eyes middle class and working poor
- Five scams consumers need to know about
- Consumer Reports starts shopping magazine
- A sneakier kind of spam
- Naïve consumers pay all the fees
- California insurers sue over driving record plan
- FDA scientists blast drug agency’s priorities
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