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Consumer Action updates daily, headline news from a variety of news sources. The archive provides access in reverse chronological order, grouped by year, than month to allow for easier browsing.
- Headlines | What cuts to the CFPB could mean for consumers
- Opinions & Editorials | Why DOGE is unconstitutional
- Headlines | Consumers don’t need tricky loans or a repeat of financial crisis
- Headlines | Trump Administration fires Consumer Bureau chief
- Headlines | What is DeepSeek, the Chinese AI app
- Headlines | Landlords are accused of colluding to raise rents
- Headlines | Meta eliminates fact checkers and embraces ‘Community Notes’
- Headlines | New rule would remove medical debt from millions of credit reports
- Chinese Headlines | Holiday Shopping Scams and Prevention Tips
- Headlines | CFPB sues big banks over Zelle fraud losses
- Headlines | FTC issues rule requiring hotels, ticket sellers to reveal ‘junk fees’
- Headlines | Stop & Shop makes digital-only deals available to more customers
- Headlines | New federal rule limits Overdraft fees at large banks
- Headlines | Small retailers embrace efforts to rein In swipe fees
- Headlines | When scammers weaponize your emotions
- Headlines | Scammers are stealing billions from Americans’ bank accounts
- Headlines | What the election could mean for student loan borrowers
- Headlines | Want to stop robocalls?
- Headlines | Celebrating 50 years of Equal Credit Opportunity
- Headlines | New rules for airlines to help you get speedy refunds
- Headlines | Here’s what you need to know with popular payment apps
- Headlines | F.T.C. finds Meta, YouTube, TikTok collect more data than most users realize
- Headlines | Instagram’s new ‘teen accounts’
- Headlines | Are we moving toward a cashless, checkless society?
- Chinese Headlines | Consumer Action Devices Warranty & California Right to Repair Act Presentation
- Headlines | The uncertain future of student loan repayment explained
- Chinese Headlines | CFPB proposed multilingual mortgage service for LEP homeowners
- Headlines | Think twice before buying a car-repair contract
- Headlines | Your flight is stuck on the tarmac. What do airlines owe you?
- Headlines | New airline passenger rights explained
- Headlines | CFPB plans to remove medical debt from credit reports
- Headlines | There’s a little-known program to cancel private student debt
- Chinese Headlines | Consumer Action provide 2024 devices warranty information community education
- Headlines | Justice Department sues to break up Live Nation, Ticketmaster
- Headlines | Consumers with Buy-Now Pay-Later disputes are to get protection
- Headlines | Supreme Court rejects challenge to consumer watchdog’s funding
- Headlines | Consumer groups push Congress to uphold automatic airline refunds
- Headlines | Apple, Google & Venmo fight new plan to monitor payment apps
- Headlines | New airline rules: Automatic refunds and no more hidden fees
- Headlines | Lawmakers unveil plan to expand online privacy protections
- Headlines | AT&T data breach affects 73M current, former customers
- Headlines | In hospitals, affordable housing gets the long-term investor it needs
- Headlines | Drug companies push to block law that would cut prescription prices
- Headlines | How a healthcare cyberattack may affect your prescription drug access
- Headlines | U.S. caps credit card late fees
- Headlines | Your tax return is secret. TurboTax wants you to give up your privacy
- Headlines | Do not trust the Google airline customer service numbers
- Headlines | The way big banks shut down customer accounts is callous. Let’s fix it.
- Headlines | Here’s why you should check your credit report
- Headlines | Biden administration cancels $1.2B in student loans