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Don’t buy or use ‘universal’ chargers with e-bikes, e-scooters, and hoverboards due to fire risk, safety agency warns

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission urges consumers of micromobility products – including e-bikes, e-scooters, self-balancing scooters or hoverboards, and e-unicycles – not to use chargers that are marketed as “universal” or suitable with general categories of micromobility devices to avoid fires and injury or death, unless they’ve been tested... Read more →


Credit card company trapped vulnerable consumers in to signing up for high-fee membership cards with limited use, CFPB says

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau sued Horizon Card Services and its CEO Robert Kane Friday for tricking consumers into signing up for its expensive membership credit card. Horizon’s credit card, which could come with almost $300 in annual fees on a card with a $500 credit limit, could only be... Read more →


Did you know Texas has created a separate court system to hear corporate cases?

The lengths to which Republican governors are going to create fiefdoms in which they can carry out their conservative ideas is mind-boggling. Questionable policies on gender identity, abortion, guns, book banning, critical race theory, elections, immigration, and more are increasingly troubling. Then I read on the Public Citizen website that... Read more →


Fischer-Price recalls more than 366,000 dumbbell toys due to choking risk to infants

Check to see if your child or grandchild has this toy, take a photo of it, destroy it, and get a refund. Fischer-Price is recalling the dumbbell toy sold with the Baby Biceps Gift Set. The gray caps on the end of the dumbbell toy can come off, posing a... Read more →