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