It appears we're almost past that point in the presidential primary season where we pretend it's still an open question whether a politician that's given us every signal he's going to run will ...

Texas Gov. Rick Perry on Thursday morning announced he is suspending his campaign for president, saying at a press conference in North Charleston, South Carolina, “the mission is greater than the man.

Update 11:26 a.m.: "I've come to the conclusion that there is no viable path forward for my campaign," Perry told a conference hall full of reporters in Charleston, S.C. in an event livestreamed by ...

Conservatives longing for a 2012 savior are increasingly fixating on Texas’s governor. Peter Boyer talks to Perry about his suitors, his state’s economic success—and his timetable for deciding. One of ...

with Perry (and Newt Gingrich), which raises an enormous opportunity for Gingrich, Perry and President Obama. In economic theory the philosophy is called “creative destruction.” In this theory, ...

Perry is the new secretary of energy. — -- Former Texas Gov. Rick Perry was confirmed Thursday as secretary of the Department of Energy -- an agency he had once sought to eliminate. When running ...

A Republican whose 2012 presidential bid was thwarted by a viral mental lapse on a debate stage has become a top advocate for a powerful drug that made him see the devil. Former Texas Gov. Rick Perry ...

Governor Rick Perry, the man who has shown the ability to ride a crest of not really being liked to three gubernatorial wins, has done it again. He beat a Democrat in Texas, in the Tea Party year of ...

President-elect Donald Trump has made his pick for the leader of the Department of Energy: former Texas Gov. Rick Perry, who famously once forgot that he wanted to abolish the Energy Department, ...

President-elect Donald Trump announced his selection of former campaign rival Rick Perry to be the country's next secretary of energy. In a statement early Wednesday on his decision, Trump said, “As ...