From surprise rental car fees, to bigger-than-expected airfare, hotel, utilities or home improvement bills, NBC’s Christine Romans joins TODAY to share how you can challenge those charges and, in some cases, take steps to avoid them altogether. Tips include recording video of rentals, calling airlines to reprice flights, requesting a home meter test from your utility company and more.

U.S. stocks surged and oil fell after Trump and Iran gave conflicting reports about talks between the U.S. and Iran.

Some days for Rachel Jordan start at 5 a.m. and don’t end until midnight — sometimes for multiple days in a row.“I’m just exhausted, honestly,” she said in an interview

The U.S.-Iran war has begun cutting into discretionary spending, raising mortgage rates, battering stock markets and souring consumer sentiment.

In a twist of wartime irony, the United States has moved to ease sanctions on Iranian oil to cool surging energy prices, a potential boon for Tehran.

A jury in California has found billionaire Elon Musk liable for misleading investors ahead of his $44 billion acquisition of Twitter, which he later renamed X. Jurors were asked to decide if two tweets and comments Musk made on a podcast in May 2022 amounted to him intentionally defrauding Twitter shareholders, who sold their shares based on Musk’s statements. 

California and seven other states filed an emergency motion on Friday to stop the merger of broadcasting companies Nexstar and Tegna, a corporate tie-up that would create the country’s largest operator of local television stations

Three people affiliated with server maker Supermicro were charged Thursday in connection with allegations they conspired to smuggle advanced Nvidia chips into China, in violation of U.S. export controls barring their sale to China without a license

The Federal Communications Commission has signed off on broadcast station owner Nexstar’s $6.2 billion deal to acquire rival company Tegna, a merger that would create the largest operator of local television stations in the country

Top Republicans and Democrats trying to end the monthlong Department of Homeland Security shutdown huddled with White House border czar Tom Homan in the Capitol on Thursday.