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.
- 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
- Find out and fix what big data says about you
- 8 questions about student loan default and “fresh start”
- The federal consumer bureau sued TransUnion over deceptive sales tactics
- Aging in place easier with smart home technology
- The student loan pause won’t last forever
- Your digital footprint: It’s bigger than you realize
- How the most affordable student loan program failed low-income borrowers
- New government site to help Americans find Covid antiviral pills
- Your shadow credit score could decide if you get an apartment
- Remote appraisals of homes could reduce racial bias
- Credit reporting companies will remove stains from repaid medical debt
- How Congress can fight racial discrimination
- A new 9-1-1 for mental health is on the way
- Wells Fargo rejected half Its Black applicants for refinancing
- How California is building the nation’s first privacy police