IBT Staff Reporter

Arkansas Attorney General Dustin McDaniel said on Wednesday that a bipartisan group of attorneys general wrote to U.S. regulators in support of AT&T Inc's $39 billion bid for T-Mobile USA.

With America edging ever closer to a default, and a downgrade in the U.S. credit rating, some realizations are starting to hit America's youth about their future. The consequences of the partisan squabbling of their parents' generation may leave them with little to inherit and much to despise.

If you want to know why tax from surging corporate profits isn't making much of a dent in the United States' crippling budget deficit, a glance at Microsoft Corp's recent results provides some clues.

With America edging ever closer to a default, and a downgrade in credit rating, some realizations are starting to hit America's youth about their future. The consequences of the partisan squabbling of their parents' generation may leave them with little to inherit and much to despise.

New York Mets outfielder Carlos Beltran will be traded to the San Francisco Giants, according to multiple reports.

Playboy founder Hugh Hefner says his former fiance is lying about their sex life, or lack of it.

Free agent Matt Hasselbeck is headed to the Tennessee Titans and Donovan McNabb was poised to be traded to the Minnesota Vikings, as National Football League teams lined up their quarterbacks with the lockout over.

Symantec Corp, the top maker of computer security software, beat Wall Street's profit estimates for a fourth consecutive quarter, saying it is benefiting from a surge in hacking activity.

Ryan Gosling claims that after his last film, the moody "Blue Valentine," it took him several months to "acclimate out of the experience" and he paid a visit to the doctor.

The glitzy drama of reality show "Real Housewives of Beverly Hills" will be returning in September will all six original ladies, plus some special guests, cable TV channel Bravo said on Wednesday.

Two top U.S. defense contractors posted sales that missed Wall Street's expectations on Wednesday in a sign that federal efforts to rein in military spending are starting to take a toll.

Visa Inc's quarterly profit rose by 40 percent and the world's largest payment processor said it would buy back $1 billion in class A common stock shares over the next year.

A Union Pacific freight train carrying more than 60 cars, some loaded with hazardous substances, derailed on Friday in a desert town north of Los Angeles, prompting evacuations of nearby homes, fire officials said.

Investors eagerly bought the shares of Dunkin' Donuts parent Dunkin' Brands Group Inc , sending them up as much as 56 percent on their first day of trading on Wednesday.

Moody's Corp , owner of one of the three major debt-rating agencies, reported a 56 percent rise in second-quarter profit, but cautioned that the second half of the year would be more difficult.

Carbon market participants said revisions to key rules may not be enough to ensure that trading in secondary offset markets in California is liquid and stable.

British police arrested a teenager believed to be a leader of computer hacking groups that boasted attacks on the networks of the CIA, Sony and Rupert Murdoch's media empire.

Multiple PayPal users have been incorrectly charged for purchasing Mac OS X Lion from the Mac App Store, with one user claiming to have received a bill of nearly $4,000 for the $29.99 software.

Daphna Ziman is on a mission to help foster children, and she's picked a novel way to do it -- novel, being the key word.

Neil Patrick Harris may be the most versatile star in showbiz. The Emmy-award winner can sing and dance, perform voice-overs, host award shows, and still finds to act in the TV show "How I Met Your Mother."

Investors punished Juniper Networks (JNPR.N) by selling its shares after the networking equipment maker joined Cisco Systems Inc (CSCO.O) in warning that this year's results will miss Wall Street projections.

A British teenager was arrested on Wednesday on suspicion of being a leader of the computer hacking group that has boasted of breaking into the networks of the CIA, Sony and many other private and public bodies.

Panasonic Corp <6752.T> has decided to sell its unit's washing machine and refrigerator operations in Japan and Southeast Asia to Chinese firm Haier Group Co <1169.HK> for about 10 billion yen ($128.3 million), Japan's Nikkei business daily reported.

The Louisiana Public Service Commission voted on Wednesday in favor of AT&T Inc's $39 billion bid for T-Mobile USA.

With 172 victims struck on Friday's brutal shooting spree of whom 76 died, mostly teenagers, Norway is shocked and shattered, but refuses to give in vows to keep their egalitarian society and continue to build the nation..

Wall Street suffered its worst day in eight weeks on Wednesday, hit by weak earnings, lackluster economic data and no movement in Washington talks as the deadline for a U.S. default looms.

The U.S. Government said that there is no proof that exposure to dust and rubble from the September 11 attacks caused cancer. Needless to say, the review fueled rage in many firefighters, police, and first responders said that the claim is bizarre and unsubstantiated and that they have seen too many people die from cancer to buy it.

Research from Nielsen indicates more Netflix users are connecting to the service via gaming consoles.

Visa Inc said on Wednesday quarterly profit rose by 40 percent, on a higher volume of global payments and a gain from revaluing its Visa Europe put option.