Bill Richardson

Before he endorsed Barack Obama, before he drew the wrath of the Clintons and was likened to Judas, New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson nearly endorsed Hillary Rodham Clinton for president. But Richardson hesitated, and as the Democratic campaign turned...

Two of the leading candidates for secretary of state in a new Barack Obama Cabinet are colleagues of Obama and Vice President-elect Joe Biden from the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) has been cited as a front-runner for...

The two leading Democratic presidential contenders revved up their campaigns Thursday, rallying supporters in upcoming battleground states and touting big-name endorsements. Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) won what was easily the day's top prize -- the...

Like seven candidates before him, Sen. Christopher J. Dodd made the pilgrimage to Google on Monday in what has become a rite of passage in this presidential campaign. But the longtime Connecticut senator and long-shot presidential candidate brought...

EMMETSBURG, IOWA -- Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr., in a dark suit whose jacket he will soon shed, steps out of a dark SUV about an hour and a half late for a house party at Jack and Kay Kibbie's place. Jack Kibbie is a corn and soybean farmer, but more to...

When President-elect Barack Obama named New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson as his pick for commerce secretary this month, his former Democratic rival appeared beside him, cleanshaven -- another devastating blow to facial hair in the long-running battle of...

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Stephen Colbert's ambitious attempts to win the presidency on the heals of a South Carolina primary candidacy appear to have fallen through. On Thursday (Nov. 1) night's episode of "The Colbert Report," the political comic "learned" that the South...

SANTA FE, N.M. -- On the afternoon of the 58th day of New Mexico's 60-day legislative session, Gov. Bill Richardson reclined on the green leather couch in his office, rubbed his eyes and growled to the cluster of staffers surrounding him: "What can I...

The seminal moment in Bill Richardson's life came shortly before he was born. His father, a headstrong American banker who worked and lived in Mexico City, told his pregnant wife in the fall of 1947 to pack for a brief trip across the U.S. border. So she...

WASHINGTON — Sen. John McCain, once considered the front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination, has fallen to third place in a new Los Angeles Times/Bloomberg poll, and is running behind Fred Thompson, an actor and former senator who has...

WASHINGTON — President-elect Barack Obama's pick to head the Treasury Department and oversee the Internal Revenue Service held an emergency meeting Tuesday with key senators concerned about his failure to pay some personal income taxes and the...