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• Debit card tied to 401(k) stirs debate, legislation

• Southwest Airlines bucks airline trend with profit

• Motorists get relief at pumps, as oil prices slip

• Crash tests raise doubts about small pickup trucks

• RVs seized as dealer is accused failing to repay $3M lenders

• Reeling from losses, Downey shakes up leadership; may consider sale

• Stocks tumble after sales of existing homes fall

• Housing bill heads to Senate; Bush withdraws veto threat

• Gates, Bloomberg pool riches to fight smoking

• Airlines announce latest losses

• Blog: Starbucks closings killed their coffee buzz

• Sid Craig, co-founder of Jenny Craig, dead at 76

• Converting voice mail to text messages

• Grocers stop selling jalapeno peppers after salmonella discovery

• Governor says he wants to avoid MTA fare hike

AP Business

• With its very survival at stake, an American auto icon looks to Europe for help

• Ford, Daimler, Hyundai profits fall in tumultuous industry; Renault up but threatens cuts

• Senators urge crackdown on overseas tax havens; 1 Caymans building used by 18,000 companies

• Federal regulators accuse Optiver Holding, executives of energy futures price manipulation

• Summary Box: Tissue and diaper maker Kimberly-Clark reports drop in 2nd-quarter profit

AP Technology

• Microsoft CEO defends fiscal 2009 spending on search, but offers little on post-Yahoo plans

• T-R-O-U-B-L-E for creators of popular Scrabble knockoff for Facebook; sued by game's owners

• Embarq elaborates on Internet ad test in letter to skeptical members of Congress

• McClatchy profit falls 44 pct in 2nd-qtr as ad revenue erodes in key newspaper markets

• Amazon's 2Q profit shows it thriving, and investors send shares up strongly

AP Wall Street

• 2 million Americans get a raise today; Federal minimum wage rises 70 cents to $6.55 an hour

• Tenn. Supreme court rules against automaker DaimlerChrysler in wrongful death suit

• Grocery chain Kroger removes all jalapenos as precaution

• National City 2nd-quarter loss swells to $1.8 billion as bad loans pile up

• Southwest Airlines 2nd-quarter earnings up on higher revenue and gains from hedging fuel costs