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.

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2019

April

Apr 10, 2019

• CFPB says ‘all options on table’ for enforcing Wells Fargo order
• Military personnel caught in crossfire over lending law
• Facebook lanza actualizaciones para combatir noticias falsas

Apr 09, 2019

• Tip on how to handle fraudulent robocalls? (Chinese)
• Alameda City A/B votes proposal draws public attention (Chinese)
• How to respond to phone fraud (Chinese)
• Presidential campaigns are about to start texting you all the time
• When banks pay colleges, students pay millions more in fees
• JPMorgan CEO calls student loans ‘significant issue’
• ‘Grandparent scam’ never goes out of fashion
• California lanzó el sistema de registro de votantes del DMV a pesar de errores e intromisión de ‘hackers’
• Bank of America subirá el salario mínimo de sus empleados a $20

Apr 08, 2019

• The Housing Leasing Act in PRC called for the adoption of a new law to protect tenant rights (Chinese)
• The con of the side hustle
• Increase in risky corporate loans could lead to financial crisis
• A mysterious infection, spanning the globe in a climate of secrecy
• Senators to consumer watchdog: Prove you’re protecting students
• La misteriosa infección que se esparce por el mundo debido a la resistencia a antimicóticos

Apr 07, 2019

• Aconsejan estar alerta de conductores falsos

Apr 06, 2019

• Wealthy businessman convicted of 20 counts of frauds in Medicare and Medicaid scams (Chinese)
• $1.4M was cheated from an elderly during this tax filing season (Chinese)

Apr 05, 2019

• Robo-callers rang Americans’ phones 26 billion times last year
• Safety tips for riding with Uber
• Sears cutting life insurance benefits for up to 90,000 retirees
• Cómete las verduras: un estudio descubre que una alimentación deficiente está relacionada con una de cada cinco muertes
• Autoridades: 10 bebés han muerto en moisés de Fisher-Price

Apr 04, 2019

• California new proposed Infant at Work Program helped lessen parents’ work pressure (Chinese)
• New drunk driving bill would make California one of the strictest in the nation (Chinese)
• Need a boost to your credit rating? Try these new financial tools
• Millions of sensitive Facebook user records were left exposed
• Following Equifax hack attack, federal power to punish needed
• How to save money on prescription drugs
• Bank of America to give borrowers up to $10,000 to close a home loan
• House of Representatives passed votes to list Chinese characters names on the ballot (Chinese)

Apr 03, 2019

• 500 million Facebook user data stored in the cloud feared leakage (Chinese)
• Academy of Art for defrauding the government case continues (Chinese)
• Trump appointees stepped in to halt dangerous stroller recall
• Congress is taking aim at robocallers
• Amazon cuts Whole Food prices
• Drug sites upend doctor-patient relations

Apr 02, 2019

• An 88-year-old was sold $250,000 worth of timeshare points
• Countries want to ban ‘weaponized’ social media
• Student loan debt still impacting Millennial homebuyers
• ¿Te fastidian las llamadas automáticas, “robocalls”?

Apr 01, 2019

• Ponzi scheme planned by false priests deceived nearly $100M from investors (Chinese)
• Warren, Cummings look to crack down on credit bureaus
• Mark Zuckerberg’s call for more tech rules fails to impress
• How to choose a vacation rental
• Mortgage rates continue to nose-dive
• Schumer desea salida de Boeing de comité asesor de la FAA

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