David Koch

Mexican tycoon Carlos Slim, Microsoft's Bill Gates and Zara fashion house boss Amancio Ortega of Spain topped the Forbes list of the world's billionaires Monday.

David Koch , the billionaire industrialist backing Mitt Romney's bid for the White House, supports gay marriage. David Koch, the billionaire industrialist backing Mitt Romney's bid for the White House, disagrees with the candidate's position on gay marriage. Koch and his older brother Charles co-own Koch Industries, the second largest privately held company in the United States. They have donated heavily to several political advocacy groups, including the pro-Republican Americans for Prosperity, which David Koch chairs. In an interview with POLITICO.com from the Republican National Convention, Koch, who served as a delegate from New York, said, ?I believe in gay marriage.? When asked about Romney's opposition to such unions, Koch replied, ?Well, I disagree with that.? (Related: Mitt Romney, Paul Ryan touch on gay marriage at RNC.) Koch, the 1980 vice presidential nominee for the Libertarian Party, also said he now considers himself a Republican. ?The Libertarian Party is a great concep

MILWAUKEE (Reuters) - Political money has poured into Wisconsin in recent months - not for the presidential or Senate races but for a state vote getting national billing as a battle for the interests of the middle class.

A gay couple living in a suburb of Columbus, Ohio woke up Friday to find a death threat spray painted on their home. A gay couple living in a suburb of Columbus, Ohio woke up Friday to find a death threat spray painted on their home, WBNS 10TV News reported. David Koch and his partner of 25 years, who asked not to be identified, were called out to their Westerville yard at 6AM by a neighbor to find two phrases spray painted in bright yellow: ?Move or Die? and ?Die fag.? The couple, who has lived in their condo for 14 years, said the threats came hours after Koch spoke out at a condo association meeting. ?I mean, it's just cruel,? Koch said. ?It's juvenile, there's a civil way of handling things between adults, and this isn't it.? A security camera tripped off by a motion detector was spray painted over. Local police and the FBI are investigating the incident as a possible hate crime. ?This is the work of a coward,? Koch told NBC 4. ?Because if somebody has some kind of issue with me I

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former pizza magnate Herman Cain's bid for the White House was an unconventional long shot from the start, but behind the colorful Cain Train a dysfunctional team has always been on the verge of running off the tracks.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former pizza magnate Herman Cain's bid for the White House was an unconventional long shot from the start, but behind the colorful Cain Train a dysfunctional team has always been on the verge of running off the tracks.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A consumer group asked regulators on Friday to probe allegations that Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain got illegal campaign cash from an influential conservative group backed by the wealthy brothers who run Koch Industries.

NEW YORK (Reuters)- For the small club of companies who trade the food, fuels and metals that keep the world running, the last decade has been sensational. Driven by the rise of Brazil, China, India and other fast-growing economies, the global commodities boom has turbocharged profits at the world's biggest trading houses.

NEW YORK (Reuters)- For the small club of companies who trade the food, fuels and metals that keep the world running, the last decade has been sensational. Driven by the rise of Brazil, China, India and other fast-growing economies, the global commodities boom has turbocharged profits at the world's biggest trading houses.

ATLANTA (Reuters) - Unlike Senator John McCain who presented himself as a maverick in the 2008 presidential campaign, Republican hopeful Herman Cain is a true political outsider.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Mitt Romney's campaign raised more than $14 million in the third quarter, signaling that the Republican presidential hopeful's fundraising remains robust despite shifts in opinion polls.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican candidates in the 2012 U.S. elections will have a powerful weapon they lacked four years ago -- heavy spending from groups aligned with the conservative Tea Party movement.

Several hundred people marched up Manhattan on Tuesday to take the Occupy Wall Street protest literally to the doorsteps of some of the richest tycoons in the United States.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - At least one well-heeled backer of New Jersey Governor Chris Christie shifted support to former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney on Tuesday after Christie declined to join the Republican presidential race, and others are expected to follow.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Investor George Soros, at 81, has for the first time made the list of the 10 wealthiest Americans, Forbes Magazine reported on Wednesday in the 2011 edition of its annual rich list.

MIAMI (Reuters) - They have been accused of holding Washington hostage by pushing the United States to the brink of a damaging debt default. The world is watching anxiously as the debt impasse drags on.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democrats, badly outspent in congressional elections last year, fired their first shot on Wednesday against conservative groups in the advertising wars running up to the 2012 presidential election.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Willie Soon, a U.S. climate change skeptic who has also discounted the health risks of mercury emissions from coal, has received more than $1 million in funding in recent years from large energy companies and an oil industry group, according to Greenpeace.

Notorious Wild West gunslinger Billy the Kid paid 25 cents to have his photograph taken outside a New Mexico saloon in late 1880 or early 1881. On Saturday, that faded picture sold for $2.3 million.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic U.S. lawmakers have asked Congressional panels to look into whether Koch, an energy company led by brothers who are powerhouses in conservative politics, will benefit if the Obama administration approves a $7 billion pipeline to bring crude from Canada into the United States.