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Stock market up .... Help for student borrowers ... Detroit bankruptcy 06/09/2014 06:20pm • NEW YORK (AP) -- The stock market reached another record high today, thanks in part to a handful of deals reached by U.S. companies. The Standard & Poor's 500 index rose 1.8 points, or 0.1 percent, to close at an all-time high of 1,951. The Dow Jones industrial average nudged up 18 points, or 0.1 pe Obama signs presidential memo to expand student loan relief 06/09/2014 06:10pm • WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama is looking to relieve the burden of student loan debt. Today, he signed a presidential memo expanding a program that lets borrowers pay no more than 10 percent of their income every month. And he threw his support behind more sweeping Senate legislation targ Automakers to help save Detroit's art treasures 06/09/2014 04:40pm • COREY WILLIAMS Associated Press DETROIT (AP) -- General Motors, Ford and Chrysler are driving into Detroit's bankruptcy reorganization by pledging $26 million to help support retiree pensions while keeping the city's art treasures off the auction block, officials announced Monday.The money will go t Greek PM replaces finance minister in reshuffle 06/09/2014 04:31pm • ATHENS, Greece (AP) -- Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras replaced his finance minister with a finance and economics professor during a broad Cabinet reshuffle Monday following the conservative-led coalition government's weak showing in European parliamentary elections last month.Outgoing Finance Court approves Dolan Co. bankruptcy reorganization 06/09/2014 03:38pm • BALTIMORE (AP) -- A court has approved the bankruptcy reorganization plan of Dolan Co., a business and legal publisher that is the parent company of The Daily Record in Baltimore.The Daily Record reported (http://bit.ly/1kejKXc) Monday that ownership of Dolan has been given to its lenders. Bayside C Ex-NFL player as AD doesn't mean football for GMU 06/09/2014 03:20pm • FAIRFAX, Va. (AP) -- The hiring of a man who won a Super Bowl ring with the Washington Redskins doesn't mean George Mason will be adding football anytime soon.GMU introduced Brad Edwards as its new athletic director Monday. Edwards played nine seasons in the NFL and was the defensive co-captain of t News Guide: Races that will decide Senate control 06/09/2014 10:20am • The Associated Press While Democrats now hold control of the U.S. Senate, this fall's election has the potential to shift that leadership to the GOP.Republicans will take control if they manage a net gain of six Senate seats.Among the 36 seats on the ballot, seven are held by Democrats in states wo China Mobile to take stake in Thailand's True 06/09/2014 08:49am • BANGKOK (AP) -- China Mobile Ltd. has agreed to buy an 18 percent stake in Thai telecommunications and cable TV company True Corp. for $880 million, the highest profile corporate deal announced in Thailand since the military sized power in a May 22 coup.True said Monday that the investment by the st Vietnam tycoon sentenced to 30 years for fraud 06/09/2014 08:00am • HANOI, Vietnam (AP) -- A Vietnamese court sentenced one of the country's richest men to 30 years in prison on Monday after finding him guilty of financial crimes involving millions of dollars.Nguyen Duc Kien, a flamboyant businessman who also headed the Hanoi ACB football club, was arrested in 2012. Obama to take executive steps on student loans 06/09/2014 03:36am • JOSH LEDERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama is prepping new executive steps to help Americans struggling to pay off their student debt, and throwing his support behind Senate Democratic legislation with a similar goal but potentially a much more profound impact.Obama on Inner-city school applauds first college graduates 06/09/2014 02:17am • SHARON COHEN AP National Writer CHICAGO (AP) -- Jamil Boldian headed to college four years ago, arriving in small-town Ohio with a one-way Megabus ticket and $17.91 to his name.He'd been scared to leave Chicago, the only place he'd ever really known. He'd had a rough start in life, bouncing around i No shortage of info in Detroit bankruptcy 06/08/2014 01:47pm • ED WHITE Associated Press DETROIT (AP) -- Retired Detroit bus driver Art Vardiman recently received a computer disk in the mail that contains hundreds of pages of documents. He also got a six-page blue ballot about cuts to his pension and a white one about health insurance. A 25-page notice explains Mourdock compares US economic woes to Nazi Germany 06/08/2014 08:30am • TOM LoBIANCO Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- An Indiana politician who lost his Republican Senate campaign two years ago amid criticism for his comment about rape is now comparing the handling of the national economy to the events leading up to Germany's 1936 elections under the Nazi regime.In Update on the latest news, sports, business and entertainment 06/07/2014 11:00pm • asterisk () -- BELMONT STAKESCalifornia Chrome's Triple Crown quest collapsesNEW YORK (AP) -- California Chrome has failed in his bid to win the first Triple Crown in 36 years.Tonalist won the Belmont Stakes, and California Chrome finished far back in a tie for fourth Saturday. The result means the US consumer spending surges in April 06/07/2014 04:28am • MARTIN CRUTSINGER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) -- Consumers revved up their borrowing in April, with growth in credit card debt accelerating at the fastest pace in more than a dozen years.Overall credit expanded by $26.8 billion during the month, up from an increase of $19.5 billion in March,