Texas' longest-serving governor throws his hat into the GOP presidential race. August 13, 2011 -- Texas Gov. Rick Perry shook up the 2012 race today when he made his candidacy official in Charleston, ...

HOUSTON (KTRK) -- It's fair to say Donald Trump is the headliner in Cleveland, Ohio this week. Polling atop all 17 Republican presidential candidates in 2016, the bombastic and unapologetic, has a ...

Rick Perry is sitting at home with his wife, eating Funyuns and scrolling through channels on the moving picture box in his living room when he comes across President Obama standing on a podium and ...

Ever wonder what our nation looks like to folks from afar? Here we look at how a uniquely American story--the kind of news we have trouble explaining even to ourselves--is being told overseas. Want to ...

A Grand Jury has indicted Texas Governor Rick Perry on charges of abusing the power of his office. The Grand Jury investigated his threat to veto funding for a state prosecutor. Perry is considered a ...

Governor Rick Perry publicly endorsed “lean, finely textured beef” today. Governors from Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska and the Lt. Gov. Matt Michels, standing in for South Dakota Gov. Dennis Daugaard, who is ...

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 ...

Ibogaine Research – A new law opens the door for expanded research into Ibogaine, a psychedelic plant medicine. Sam Stark reports on how stories from veterans helped push legislation to use the ...

AUSTIN – So what's a guy to do after he drops out of the presidential race, except take a road trip with a buddy? That's apparently what former Gov. Rick Perry decided, anyway. Perry -- who left the ...

Maybe Rick Perry just likes to have his picture taken. The Texas governor was defiant on Tuesday as he turned himself in to be booked, fingerprinted and have his mugshot taken following his indictment ...

AUSTIN, Texas -- A grand jury indicted Texas Gov. Rick Perry on Friday for allegedly abusing the powers of his office by carrying out a threat to veto funding for state prosecutors investigating ...

AUSTIN, Texas -- Gov. Rick Perry said Monday he is deploying up to 1,000 National Guard troops over the next month to the Texas-Mexico border to combat criminals that Republican state leaders say are ...