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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 | Southwest pays refunds after computer glitch
- Headlines | Facebook: About 83 million accounts are fake
- Headlines | The best reason yet to ditch Gmail
- Headlines | Prepaid cellphones are cheaper. Why aren’t they popular?
- Headlines | 10 surprising dangers of vitamins and supplements
- Headlines | Generic medicines saved $193 billion in 2011
- Headlines | S.E.C. gets encouragement from jury that ruled against it
- Headlines | Cellphone-safety advocate hopes Congress forces the FCC to update its regulations
- Headlines | Verizon can’t block tethering apps, says FCC
- Headlines | Report: For-profit colleges serve shareholders not students
- Headlines | Wireless tiered plans affecting consumer satisfaction
- Headlines | Capital One fined for violating active-duty credit protections
- Headlines | Donating your car to charity: 5 tips
- Headlines | Friends, loans and consequences
- Headlines | Congressional Record app: Legislators’ daily speeches, in your hands
- Headlines | Facebook less trusted than amazon, google in data use, poll says
- Headlines | American Airlines and US Airways CEOs discuss potential merger
- Headlines | Strategies: Women entrepreneurs can learn a lot from men
- Headlines | Fare relief: Airlines offering fall sales earlier this year
- Opinions & Editorials | The government wants you to eat cheese
- Headlines | CFPB to supervise credit reporting
- Headlines | Cities weigh mortgage ‘condemnation’
- Headlines | Newly created jobs go mostly to men
- Headlines | College costs shifting to students, Sallie Mae survey finds
- Headlines | Kicking the tires at CarGurus
- Headlines | Health care options for young, healthy and broke
- Headlines | Get the best dollar-store deals
- Headlines | Excedrin users turn to the Web to find relief for migraines
- Headlines | Homeland Security warns of hackers targeting popular Niagara software
- Headlines | Credit cards and college students can be a dangerous mix
- Headlines | Visa, MasterCard and banks to pay up to $7.25 billion in ‘card-swiping’ settlement
- Headlines | Privacy groups question NTIA’s focus on mobile privacy
- Headlines | Verizon Wireless wants to ‘edit’ your Internet access
- Headlines | How safe is your hospital?
- Headlines | A man depicts the often grim atmosphere in assisted living facilities
- Headlines | How did you sleep last night?
- Headlines | Government agency proposes simpler mortgage forms
- Headlines | Cell phone carriers report surge in surveillance
- Headlines | For black Americans, financial damage is likely to last
- Headlines | British Airways Googles VIP fliers so crew recognizes them
- Headlines | States, Congress rallying for an e-sales tax
- Headlines | Retailers accuse Pfizer of delaying generic drugs
- Headlines | Has “organic” been oversized?
- Headlines | Park Wildlife: Hit the trails with national park field guide app
- Headlines | What the ‘Internet doomsday’ virus is and how to fix it
- Headlines | The next airline fee: Paying more to get off a plane faster?
- Headlines | Best Buy cutting jobs
- Headlines | Temp workers’ numbers climbing in rocky economy
- Headlines | Is prepaid wireless the way to go?
- Headlines | Facebook to target ads based on app usage