
Stocks rose sharply on Wall Street on Wednesday, pushing the Standard & Poor's 500 index to an all-time high.

Microsoft is leading a multicompany charge against Google, alleging the company committed antitrust violations and asking that European authorities investigate its mobile smartphone sales and marketing techniques.
The future home of the Kings may not be settled this month after all.
The man who's trying to bring the NBA's Sacramento Kings to Seattle says fans have requested 44,000 season tickets in the event the team actually relocates.
Democrats love to squawk about Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, the Supreme Court ruling that allows corporations to donate to political campaigns. They don't have a problem with 92 percent of the $75,000,000 unions gave to Democrats in 2008; nor do they admit that 55 percent of the $2 billion in PAC monies went to Democrats.

For all the Obama-era talk of decline, there is at least one reason why America probably won't, at least not quite yet.
Blockbuster game franchises like Epic Games' "Gears of War" don't just fade away _ even if the primary antagonist, the voracious Locust Horde, was obliterated at the end of the initial trilogy.
Microsoft is entangled in a U.S. government investigation into whether the software maker and some of its business partners resorted to bribery to close deals in China, Romania and Italy, according to a report published Tuesday.

Latest expansion of Locust War delivers a comfortable, action-packed fit for fans of the Gears of War universe.