Topic: Iowa

Washington state may be the next American state to legalize gay marriage. It has the support of several major companies, but Microsoft is the most high-profile business to back it. Prominent figures in the business community support marriage equality, as was the case in New York, the last state to legalize it.

CNBC.com ranks the 10 richest people who have sought the U.S. presidency since 1992. Some of the people who made the list might surprise you, but what’s more surprising is who didn’t make it. Click ahead to see the 10 richest people who ran for president in the last 20 years.

The two strongest Republican candidates to emerge from the Iowa caucuses, Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum, both are open to bombing Iran's nuclear weapons program, the Christian Science Monitor reports.

Minnesota congresswoman Michele Bachmann  announced  her decision to drop out of the presidential race Wednesday, leaving her supporters up for grabs to other GOP contenders.

Rivals of surging Republican Rick Santorum attacked his conservative record on Monday, a day before the Iowa caucus kicks off the 2012 presidential election season.

Republican Mitt Romney narrowly leads rival Ron Paul in Iowa three days before  the state kicks off the party's 2012 presidential nominating race, according to a Des Moines Register poll released on Saturday.

Republican candidate Michele Bachmann's Iowa campaign chairman resigned on Wednesday and endorsed rival Ron Paul, six days before Iowa voters begin the nomination process to select the 2012 Republican presidential nominee.