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.
- California lawmakers pass historic foreclosure protections
- Housing recovery hindered by negative equity
- Maybe we should stop calling smartphones ‘phones’
- FDA OKs first new prescription diet drug in a decade
- Sunscreen forbidden at schools and camps
- Power outage and food: What to pitch, what to keep
- Outsourcing: What’s the true impact?
- I can’t afford health insurance - how can the government make me buy it?
- FHA rescinds tough new credit restrictions on loan applicants
- For an affordable trip, check out U.S. parks
- Mom, Dad, this playground’s for you
- A mortgage rate beginning with a 3
- House passes student loans, highway jobs bill
- Health-care law’s impact: How Virginia, Maryland and D.C. are faring
- The curious case of Internet privacy
- Lifeguard shortage leaves many pools, beaches unprotected
- Will Google’s personal assistant be creepy or cool?
- A look at how people use mobile apps
- In documents on pain drug, signs of doubt and deception
- Antibiotics are widely used by U.S. meat industry
- Shields for privacy in a smartphone world
- Apps are helping smartphones become digital wallets
- Debunking fuel-economy myths
- Apple’s retail army, long on loyalty but short on pay
- Three months in customer service limbo
- Getting lost in the labyrinth of medical bills
- Health-care apps for smartphones pit FDA against tech industry
- E-book readers slow to borrow from library
- Cut college tuition by getting 4-year degree in 3 years
- Facebook signs California mobile app privacy agreement
- Moody’s downgrades 15 global banks
- Online bank-theft software grows more sophisticated
- Used car prices are finally falling
- Six steps to decluttering your smartphone
- Search results may deliver tainted links
- You for sale: mapping, and sharing, the consumer genome
- Washington state provides case study on effects of heath-care reform
- To stay on schedule, take a break
- FCC considers whether to study cellphone radiation
- Five products that don’t measure up to their model names
- Save more for retirement or pay down mortgage?
- Largest health insurer to keep key parts of law regardless of court ruling
- Smart strategies for buying major appliances online
- Surge in products being recalled may be numbing consumers
- Will Philadelphia’s experiment in eradicating ‘food deserts’ work?
- Forced to early social security, unemployed pay a steep price
- Can gas savings make up for a hybrid’s higher sticker price?
- In era of cheap money, consumers are shut out
- Jobs for skilled workers are going unfilled
- 6.6 million young adults on parents’ health plans