Ashley Portero

Generation Investment Management, the investment firm run by Al Gore and David Blood, released a white paper encouraging financial companies to adopt sustainable capitalism guidelines.

John Reed, who helped engineer the merger that led to the creation of Citigroup, told the SEC that the agency needs strengthen the rule to avoid the high-risk trading activities that helped cause the collapse of the world's financial system.

Multiple Democrats, objecting to the fact that House Oversight Committee Chairman Rep. Darrel Issa, R-Calif., has only allowed men to testify, walked out of the hearing in protest on Thursday morning.

Sens. Dick Durbin and Tom Coburn sent a letter to Twitter's CEO on Wednesday asking the company about the details of a new privacy policy that allows governments to censor certain tweets.

Santorum is the latest of the anti-Romney candidates to have his time in the sun.

The Canadian company said it delayed the start-up date of the controversial oil pipeline so it could investigate new routes through Nebraska.

The Republican National Committee insists the lighthearted but personal attacks are meant in good fun.

The antiquated, paper-based voter registration system in the U.S. is responsible for an enormous number of inaccuracies, according to the study.

Katharine Hayhoe, a well-known Christian climate scientist, said politics, not theology, is the problem.

Maine's GOP Sens. Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe announced their support of Obama's revised contraception mandate just as Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., introduced new legislation attacking the birth control rule.

A group of environmental and progressive organizations aim to send half a million messages to the U.S. Senate in protest of a Keystone XL mandate Republicans plan to attach to an upcoming transportation bill.

At least two Catholic Organizations have said the revised mandate respects religious liberty without compromising women's health.

Even as Americans' economic confidence grows, they're approval of Congress continues to deteriorate.

The Conservative Political Action Conference will feature the nation's leading conservative politicians -- and celebrities.

A petition by Doctors for America urges the Obama administration to maintain the contraception mandate that has been attacked by conservative Republicans.

Romney's views on contraception oscillate to fit his political agenda.

Business groups argue the disputed rule, a provision of the Dodd-Frank reform law, is nothing more than a political talking point that does nothing to convey information about the health of a corporation.

With so much at stake, the Obama campaign said it cannot sit aside as the GOP nominees are the beneficiaries of unlimited spending.

A Gingrich communications director has been criticized by some Wikipedia editors who claim he made edits to Gingrich's biographical page that violate the Web site's conflict of interest guidelines.

Indiana Secretary of State Charlie White claims Gov. Mitch Daniels should also be charged with voter fraud, based on the standards used by the prosecution in his conviction.

Paul said in cases of honest rape a woman would go to an emergency room immediately after the attack occurs.

Almost half of likely voters said the United States should be willing to use military force to prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons, according to a new poll from The Hill.

More than half of Republican voters earning less than $30,000 a year say the government does not do enough to help the poor, according to the Pew Research Center.

Nancy Brinker, the founder and CEO of Susan G. Komen for the Cure, began the organization after making a promise to her dying sister.

Susan G. Komen for the Cure apologized on Friday for suspending its breast screening grant program with Planned Parenthood this week and announced it would revise a company policy that led to the decision, following an enormous public outcry and sharp criticism.

Sources with direct knowledge of the issue told The Atlantic the Susan G. Komen for the Cure foundation adopted new policies specifically to suspend its Planned Parenthood partnership.

Hayhoe said she has received threatening and intimidating e-mails after a conservative blogger posted her e-mail address on his Web site.

Founder and CEO Nancy Brinker said Komen's decision to end its partnership with Planned Parenthood has been mischaracterized and is not politically motivated.

Karen Handel became the vice president of Susan G. Komen for the Cure only months after running for governor of Georgia on a fervently pro-life, anti-Planned Parenthood platform.