ConsumerAffairs.com Munching more unprocessed plant foods may help keep the middle-aged bulge away, a new study suggests. On the other hand, meat, french fries and sugar-sweetened drinks can help pack on the pounds. The findings suggest that the types of food you choose, not just calories, are important for avoiding age-related weight gain. The Harvard [...]

FBI Press Release U.S. Attorney’s Office June 27, 2011 Eastern District of New York (718) 254-7000 Gary Foster, a former vice president in Citigroup, Inc.’s treasury finance department has been arrested on bank fraud charges arising from his embezzlement of more than $19 million. Foster was apprehended at John F. Kennedy International Airport Sunday morning [...]

Press Release, Homeland Security Newswire Last Wednesday a local health department in Florida staged an elaborate disaster exercise replete with angry mobs, fainting citizens, and shouting matches; the exercise, dubbed Operation MedStock, gave officials from the Pinellas County Health Department an opportunity to respond to a simulated anthrax attack Last Wednesday a local health department [...]

Greek debt crisis pulls oil prices even lower By Mark Huffman, ConsumerAffairs.com There’s bad news for oil traders, good news for consumers. The price of oil took another tumble today, falling below $92 a barrel at one point on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Concerns about the Greek bailout and resulting European debt crisis continues [...]

ConsumerAffairs.com The price of gas has gotten to be like the weather. Everybody compains about it but nobody does anything. Sen. Bernie Sanders wants to change that. The Vermont independent is introducing legislation that would require federal commodity regulators to halt excessive oil speculation. “We have a responsibility to do everything we can to lower [...]

ConsumerAffairs.com Just as motorists were finally breathing a sigh of relief at the gas pump, industry analysts predict prices will soon be headed higher again. The latest reason is the unexpected disagreement among members of OPEC this week about how much oil to produce. Saudi Arabia led the faction that wanted to produce more. The [...]

ConsumerAffairs.com Mary of Ellijay, Ga., thought it was a fluke when her Polaroid flat-screen TV caught fire on May 7, but a federal class action lawsuit claims that the sets have a known defect that Polaroid has failed to fix and that the company has failed to warn consumers that their TVs are a fire [...]

By Vince Robertiello The Republicans are wavering on Medicare according to woman’s advocate Robin Marty, writing in the latest issue of activist Care 2′s weekly causes report. She says Newt Gingrich is likely to lose the GOP presidential nomination over it.  Congressional candidate Jane Corwin may miss a projected House seat win because of it.  But [...]

ConsumerAffairs.com Scientists sue feds for failing to crack down on antibiotics in animal feed A group of scientists and consumer activists say that a deadly oubreak of untreatable infections in the U.S. is just around the corner because federal agencies have failed to crack down on the use of antibiotics in animal feed. Low doses [...]

  Confidential Federal Audits Accuse Five Biggest Mortgage Firms Of Defrauding Taxpayers By Shahien Nasiripour Huffington Post — WASHINGTON — A set of confidential federal audits accuse the nation’s five largest mortgage companies of defrauding taxpayers in their handling of foreclosures on homes purchased with government-backed loans, four officials briefed on the findings told The [...]