Fujifilm is recalling about 270,000 power adapter wall plugs sold with Fujifilm digital cameras in the United States and about 24,000 in Canada. The wall plugs can crack, break, or detach and remain in the wall and expose live electrical contacts, posing a shock hazard. No incidents or injuries have... Read more →
The Environmental Working Group is urging the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and California's attorney general to stop Rodan + Fields from making misleading claims about benzophenone, a chemical that has been linked to cancer. Rodan + Fields tells consumers to click on a link which, the company claims, provides... Read more →
With U.S. airlines expected to carry more than 600 million passengers on domestic flights this year and credit card debt levels exploding, airfare savings are becoming more important to consumers this year. To help travelers make the best decisions on frequent flyer programs, WalletHub, a personal-finance website, released its report... Read more →
Mick Mulvaney, President Donald Trump’s temporary pick to head the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, announced Wednesday a wall-to-wall review of the agency’s “enforcement, supervision, rulemaking, market monitoring, and education activities.” On Tuesday, Mulvaney announced that he would reconsider the recently finalized payday lending rule. “Trump agent Mick Mulvaney is... Read more →
Baby boomer bloggers are piling on the layers and putting up with the bad weather in the East and South. Ironically, it’s Sue Loncaric of Sizzling Toward 60 & Beyond, a new member of our group who lives in Australia where they’re experiencing record hot summer weather, who’s reporting on... Read more →
It’s challenging to think positively on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, just a few days after President Trump used a vulgar word to describe people in Haiti and Africa. Also troubling is Trump traveling to Mar a Logo on the King holiday to play golf rather than performing a day... Read more →
I’m a big fan of Apple’s customer service. It’s almost always good, unlike most other companies especially Comcast. Last night, I had an upsetting experience when I talked to an Apple employee named Jesse. For the last six weeks, I’ve been working on getting my Apple computers in better shape.... Read more →
Fieldbrook Foods Corp. is recalling all orange cream bars and chocolate-coated vanilla ice cream bars that were produced in 2017 on one of the company’s lines at its Dunkirk, New York, plant. Both products may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes. The recalled orange cream bars, chocolate-coated vanilla ice cream bars,... Read more →
The Martin Luther King Jr. federal holiday Monday offers an opportunity for Americans to honor Dr. King’s legacy through service. In 1983, a federal holiday marking the birthday of King was created. In 1994, Congress designated the Martin Luther King Jr. Federal Holiday as a national day of service. On... Read more →
Photo: Bull-Doser Ford Motor Company is being sued by truck owners who allege that the company installed software in more than 500,000 F-250 and F-350 Super Duty trucks between 2011 and 2017 to cheat federal emissions tests and allow twice the legal limit of diesel waste into the air. “Assuming... Read more →