World & Nation
President Trump fired the director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Rohit Chopra, in the latest purge of a Biden administration holdover.
Opinion
Elon Musk and Marc Andreessen have begun a campaign against the agency, but they’re rowing against public opinion: Americans see its value.
Business
Experian was sued by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which accused the Costa Mesa-based credit bureau of failing to properly probe consumer disputes.
SpaceX and Amazon want key federal regulatory agencies to be declared unconstitutional. The losers would be workers and customers of financial firms
Supreme Court rejects a conservative challenge to the U.S. agency that protects consumers from financial scams.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the president-elect’s talk about Canada becoming the 51st U.S. state is a distraction from threat of tariffs.
Politics
Justices suggested they were not ready to strike down the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau simply because it is funded with fees from the Federal Reserve rather than an annual appropriation.
The U.S. consumer watchdog has found that low-income families typically pay as much as 60 cents per dollar in fees when paying for school lunches electronically.
California
Federal prosecutors alleged Ronaldo Ayala, reputed to be a powerful member of the Mexican Mafia prison gang, conspired with the Sinaloa cartel and offered to protect its notorious former leader, Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán.
Spirit Airlines will attempt to reboot as it struggles to recover from the pandemic-caused drop in travel and a failed attempt to sell the airline to JetBlue.