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Texas Governor Rick Perry, a staunch conservative with a Washington outsider's resume, will seek the 2012 Republican nomination for president, his spokesman said on Thursday, adding a top contender to the party's field of hopefuls.

It's the million dollar question. Rumors have abounded for months that Texas Governor Rick Perry may jump in the race for president, which would drastically reshape the Republican field. But so far, he has been reticent on the topic. The answer may finally be revealed this weekend.

The downgrading of U.S. government bonds by Standard & Poor’s ensures that the 2012 election will be fought on the battlefield of debt, as Electoral College math begins mingling with dire economic figures.

As governor of Texas, Rick Perry has pursued a controversial agenda that would gut Texas' vaunted public university system in favor of something that more closely resembles a business.

The story is that as Mark Twain and novelist William Dean Howells stepped outside one morning, a downpour began and Howells asked Twain, “Do you think it will stop?” Twain answered, “It always has.” The debt-ceiling impasse has, as things generally do, ended, and a post-mortem validates conservatives’ portrayal of Barack Obama and their dismay about the dangers and incompetence of liberalism’s legacy, the regulatory state.

A new "super" political action committee supportive of former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney has raised more than $12 million, drawing on big-dollar donations to help the former Republican governor in his bid for the White House.

Some of the Republicans who want to kick President Obama out of office next year are sounding off today with their opposition to a deal the White ...

A diplomat to the core, Jon Huntsman is well known as a likable guy, but recently he's found subtle ways to fault his rivals.

As Texas Gov. Rick Perry ponders a bid for the Republican presidential nomination, Texans weighing his economic legacy are debating the role played by a long boom in government jobs—and the possible bust ahead.

Rick Perry hasn't even announced whether he'll run for the White House next year, but the Texas governor has shot up behind Mitt Romney in the latest Gallup Poll of GOP presidential contenders.