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.
- Student loan debt repayment pause extended
- Consumer groups want grocers to ditch digital-only deals
- U.S. fines airlines $7.5 m and they must refund customers for cancelled flights
- Americans fed up with tiny airline seats flood FAA with complaints
- Sharp spike in Black, Asian and Latino homeownership
- U.S. mortgage rates soar past 7%
- She signed in with Google and strangers got access to all her files
- Applying for Biden’s student loan forgiveness? Here’s what to know
- You can now buy hearing aids over the counter
- Few customers get refunds for Zelle fraud
- Student loan debt relief program launches in October
- Air passengers could see sweeping reforms and easier refunds
- Bank of America tests no-down-payment mortgages for minorities
- The best times to find cheap flights
- Inside the rise of ‘stealerships’ and shady car buying
- Who qualifies for $10,000 in student debt cancellation?
- Beware of fake warnings in text messages
- Military veterans are more vulnerable to scams than civilians
- Dept of ED cancels more ITT student loan debt
- New airline refund rules may be coming
- Here’s how you know you’re no longer contagious with Covid
- Corporate landlords ‘aggressively’ evicted tenants during pandemic
- LinkedIn privacy settings you should change now
- We need to keep building houses, even if no one wants to buy
- Medicare could save $3 billion buying drugs the Mark Cuban way
- Apple unveils new security feature to block spyware
- To get banned abortion pills, patients turn to legally risky tactics
- Insurers and employers have to reveal health care prices
- Google: To protect women, collect less data about everyone
- Justice Department and Meta settle landmark housing discrimination case
- Customers say banks refuse to pay when money is stolen on Zelle
- What parents need to know about child ID theft
- Doctor check-in software harvests your health data
- Cheaper than payday loans, but earned wage access fees can add up
- Must-pass bills give Congress (another) chance to lower drug costs
- Massive rent increases hit mobile homes
- Consumer Action Community Services and PG&E Discounted Program
- You can ask Google to take your personal data out of its search results
- Education Dept. to clear $5.8B in debt of Corinthian Colleges students
- Nobody reads privacy policies. How to give us real privacy choices.
- Twitter pays $150 million penalty for breaking privacy promises again
- Buy now, pay dearly?
- Income-targeted student loan forgiveness invites a ‘train wreck’
- Consumers lured Into predatory car repair loans
- Bank of America to pay $10 million for illegal garnishments
- Medicare Advantage plans often deny needed care
- Senators question Zelle over its response to reports of rising fraud
- How to opt out of Venmo’s new arbitration clause
- More student loan borrowers will get help
- Your digital footprint: It’s bigger than you realize