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 ...

He announced his decision in a speech to the Eagle Forum in St. Louis, where he expressed his belief in conservative principals as well as in his Christian faith. “That is why today I am suspending my ...

Former Texas Gov. Rick Perry ended his second bid for the Republican presidential nomination on Friday, becoming the first major candidate of the 2016 campaign to give up on the White House. The ...

Texas' highest criminal court has dismissed the second and final felony charge against former Gov. Rick Perry, likely ending a case the Republican says helped sink his short-lived 2016 presidential ...

The former Texas governor wasn't the only one attracting attention. — -- Rick Perry's speech wasn't the only part of his presidential announcement that had people talking today. Many viewers were ...

DES MOINES — Texas Gov. Rick Perry said it’s not too early for anybody to think about running for president in 2016, it’s just too early for him. “Certainly, if I were to be making a plan for 2016, ...

Texas Governor Rick Perry will not run for reelection next year, he announced today. "The time has come," he said, "to pass on the mantle of leadership." He will probably run for president in 2016, ...

Fish swim and birds fly and politicians run for political office – these truths are pretty self-evident. But it still comes as a faint shock that Gov. Rick Perry popped up in Iowa this week lambasting ...

It was always going to be this way. Despite his infamous painkiller-fueled bid for the GOP presidential nod in 2012, we all knew that former-Gov. Rick Perry hadn’t given up his dreams of presidential ...

Outgoing energy secretary Rick Perry is defending chief of staff Mick Mulvaney’s disastrous news conference Thursday — one that Mulvaney himself has walked back. Appearing on America’s Newsroom Friday ...

AUSTIN, Texas (Legal Newsline) – A recent interview and a planned political trip to the nation’s first caucus state might be construed as signs Texas Gov. Rick Perry is tipping his hand on a second ...