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Portugal puts up $6.6 BN to save ailing bank 08/03/2014 08:10pm • BARRY HATTON Associated Press LISBON, Portugal (AP) -- Portuguese authorities are providing 4.9 billion euros ($6.6 billion) in an emergency rescue to prevent the collapse of ailing bank Banco Espirito Santo, one of the eurozone country's oldest and biggest financial institutionsBank of Portugal gov Clear Spring loan center to open for flood victims 08/03/2014 07:40pm • CLEAR SPRING, Md. (AP) -- The U.S. Small Business Administration will begin making low-interest disaster loans available to flood victims in two western Maryland counties for damage from a June storm.The agency will set up an outreach center Tuesday in Clear Spring to work with people whose homes US auto sales sizzle in July, helped by discounts 08/03/2014 07:56am • DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) -- Big discounts helped U.S. auto sales sizzle in July.Toyota, Ford, Nissan and Chrysler all saw double-digit sales gains. General Motors' sales were up 9 percent compared with last July, while Hyundai's rose 1.5 percent. Of major automakers, only Honda and Indians stop Rangers 2-0 08/02/2014 11:22pm • CLEVELAND (AP) -- A night after flexing their muscles, the Cleveland Indians used a different tactic to beat the Texas Rangers.While the offense was limited to run-scoring singles by Lonnie Chisenhall and Nick Swisher in the sixth inning, five pitchers combined on a five-hitter for a 2-0 victory on Frank Lampard joins Manchester City on loan 08/02/2014 09:10pm • MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- Former Chelsea midfielder Frank Lampard is returning to the English Premier League with Manchester City on a six-month loan from MLS expansion team New York City FC.Manchester City manager Manuel Pellegrini confirmed the deal Saturday after the club's International Challenge Cup Olimpiakos beats Manchester City 08/02/2014 08:08pm • MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- Dimitrios Diamantakos scored twice in regulation and Roberto Jimenez Gago made two saves in a shootout to help Olimpiakos beat Manchester City 5-4 on penalty kicks Saturday after a 2-2 tie in the International Challenge Cup game.The biggest concern for the clubs coming in was the Obama: Congress left town with unfinished business 08/02/2014 08:04pm • WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama says he's taking action on his own because Congress is doing so little for working families.In his weekly radio and Internet address, Obama says the economy is improving. He says decisions made now can ensure things keep improving.Obama says he's been pushin Moody's upgrades Greece's credit rating 08/02/2014 10:20am • DEREK GATOPOULOS Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) -- Moody's ratings agency late Friday upgraded Greece's government bond rating, predicting a gradual decline of its massive national debt.The agency is also citing a continued commitment by the bailed out country's conservative-led government to Illinois governor hopeful pledges $1M of fortune 08/02/2014 05:18am • SARA BURNETT Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) -- The wealthy Republican running for Illinois governor is catching heat for pledging $1 million of his personal fortune to a credit union on Chicago's South Side for loans to small African-American businesses.Bruce Rauner, who's been courting black voters Trial exposes CEO's calls, texts to Va. first lady 08/01/2014 05:23pm • ALAN SUDERMAN Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) -- Former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell's wife exchanged 1,200 text messages and phone calls with the CEO of a dietary supplement company in less than two years, including 52 in one day, according to evidence presented Friday intended to contradict the Autos and construction fuel US job growth 08/01/2014 04:50pm • The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- Automakers helped drive hiring in July.In a month when auto plants usually shut down to retool for next year's models, the sector added a solid 14,600 jobs, according to the government's employment report released Friday.That increase accounted for more than US auto sales rise in July, helped by discounts 08/01/2014 03:00pm • DETROIT (AP) -- Auto sales have been sizzling this summer, helped by big discounts.Toyota, Ford, Nissan and Chrysler are all reporting double-digit sales gains in July, compared to a year ago. Chrysler's U.S. sales jumped 20 percent over last July.General Motors' sales were up 9 percent. Honda and V Manet portrait coming to NYC auction 08/01/2014 02:01pm • NEW YORK (AP) -- Edouard Manet's portrait of an actress will star at Christie's fall auction where it's estimated to bring $25 million to $35 million.The work is widely known by its French title, "Le Printemps" (lu PRAHN'-tahm), which means "spring." It's been on loan at the National Gallery of Art Probe of ex-Florida congressman hinges on friend 08/01/2014 01:40pm • CURT ANDERSON AP Legal Affairs Writer MIAMI (AP) -- After four years of unrelenting investigations, former U.S. Rep. David Rivera's fate in a criminal campaign finance probe could rest squarely on the shoulders of a woman who was his close friend and longtime Republican political consultant with dee Citi says SEC has closed probe of mortgage bonds 08/01/2014 12:30pm • WASHINGTON (AP) -- Citigroup Inc. says it's been told by the Securities and Exchange Commission that the agency has completed its investigation of the bank's conduct regarding mortgage bonds and won't bring further enforcement action.Citigroup said in a regulatory filing Friday that it received the