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Amid a push to deregulate American businesses, President Trump has singled out Big Tobacco as the one industry he intends to crack down on. Why?

White House could be blowing smoke with plan to cut nicotine in cigarettes

May 23, 2019 at 3:39 p.m.

It looks like the Trump administration has finally found a business it doesn’t like. Amid a far-ranging push to deregulate American companies — from payday lenders to internet service providers...

Amid a controversy over the Trump campaign having gained access to the personal information of 50 million Facebook users, privacy experts say there's little that can be done to stop such practices.

Facebook says you ‘own’ all the data you post. Not even close, say privacy experts

May 23, 2019 at 3:39 p.m.

If you were surprised to learn that Facebook simply handed out the personal data of more than 50 million users — data that ended up in the hands of Donald...

In 1962, President Kennedy outlined four basic rights that should apply to all consumers, including "the right to safety" and "the right to be heard."

56 years later, Kennedy’s call for a consumer bill of rights is forgotten under Trump

May 23, 2019 at 3:39 p.m.

On this day in 1962, President Kennedy laid out in a speech to Congress the framework for a consumer bill of rights and the crucial role the federal government must...

An act of madness: CFPB said to be letting Equifax off the hook for data breach

May 23, 2019 at 3:39 p.m.

The down-is-up world of the Trump administration grew even battier Monday amid reports that the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is scaling back its investigation into credit agency Equifax, which allowed...

Denial letters are an all-too-common aspect of our healthcare system. Yet a government study found that when patients challenged insurers' denials, about half of the rejected claims ended up being covered.

When your insurer denies a valid claim because of ‘lack of medical necessity’

May 23, 2019 at 3:39 p.m.

We learned last week that roughly 3.2 million more Americans were uninsured in 2017 — hard data attesting to how Republicans’ cold-hearted obsession with overturning Obamacare is playing out in...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau says it will reconsider rules that would make it harder for people to get caught in endless cycles of debt from payday and car title lenders.

In bizarre reversal under Trump, consumer agency reveals moves to protect payday lenders

May 23, 2019 at 3:39 p.m.

In what would be a laughable move if it wasn’t so incredibly tragic, the Trump administration’s newly emasculated Consumer Financial Protection Bureau this week sided with payday lenders over consumers....

Alex Azar, a former drug-industry executive, testified this week before the Senate Finance Committee. He was asked if he'd ever lowered the price of a branded drug. The answer was no.

Trump’s pick for health secretary makes clear he’s totally the wrong guy for the job

August 18, 2019 at 2:46 p.m.

Watching Alex Azar, President Trump’s nominee for health secretary, testify before the Senate Finance Committee this week, I realized he’s more impressive than I’d previously thought. Unlike Energy Secretary Rick...

As CES kicks off in Las Vegas, there will be plenty of buzz about wireless companies building next-generation 5G networks for virtual reality, self-driving cars and other applications.

Super-fast 5G wireless is coming this year, but it probably won’t be cheap

May 23, 2019 at 3:39 p.m.

You’re probably going to hear a lot this week about 5G — the newfangled wireless technology that’s going to turbocharge everyone’s smartphones. CES, the Las Vegas extravaganza formerly known as...

No new privacy legislation has passed in the U.S. since the Equifax data breach, but sweeping new rules are set to be implemented in Europe.

Months after Equifax data breach, we’re still no closer to privacy protections

May 23, 2019 at 3:39 p.m.

This is the year privacy safeguards finally kick in for consumers after outraged lawmakers wasted no time passing legislation in the wake of the Equifax data breach, which exposed the...

Protesters express their disappointment with President Trump's pick to head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, an official who once called the agency "a sick, sad joke."

2017 marked a year of tearing down consumer protections ‘brick by brick’

May 23, 2019 at 3:39 p.m.

If you think the government has no business telling business its business, this has been a pretty great year. If, on the other hand, you think government has a role...

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