Rick Perry

Perry was traveling with the president to Texas Thursday when he shared the news aboard Air Force One.

FORNEY, Texas (AP) — Texas Gov. Rick Perry plans to survey by air today the damage caused by Tuesday’s tornadoes. The National Weather Service says a twister with winds as high as 165 miles an hour touched down in Forney, east of Dallas...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Texas Gov. Rick Perry will abandon his presidential bid and endorse Newt Gingrich, two Republican officials said Thursday, a move coming just two days before the pivotal South Carolina primary as Republican front-runner Mitt Romney struggles to fend off a challenge from the former House speaker...

In the latest of what seems like an endless string of debates, the candidates for the GOP nomination for president in the 2012 election went head-to-head yet again on Saturday night, this time in Spartanburg, South Carolina. Dubbed the ‘Commander-in-Chief Debate’ and sponsored by CBS News and National Journal, it was the first of the cycle to appear on network television and to focus on foreign po