Sources: Former House Speaker Will form 2012 Exploratory Comm. WASHINGTON, March 1, 2011— -- Newt Gingrich, his advisors say, will make his first step toward a presidential run this week.

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich threw his hat into the presidential ring recently ... that I worked too hard and things happened in my life that were not appropriate." If Republicans nominate ...

Newt Gingrich gave a thumbs up Thursday to House Republicans’ new “Pledge to America” – but also to a competing “Contract from America” released by tea party groups earlier this year ...

The odd political coupling of former Service Employees International Union President Andy Stern and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich appears to be unraveling under the pressures of the latter ...

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, who rose through the House ... “Unless you’ve been out there organizing for a long time, it’s hard to beat somebody who has been counting votes for ...

It’s sort of fascinating watching the Republican establishment finally go nuclear on Newt Gingrich. As near as I can tell, pretty much everyone who actually served with or alongside Newt in the ...

WASHINGTON – Former GOP presidential contender Newt Gingrich on Sunday fended off hard-line conservatives who slammed him for praising the late Nelson Mandela. “Everybody says they love ...

As the conservative base contemplates Newt Gingrich again – for the first time! – all manner of Newtian heresies are cropping back up. The other day, I got a call from someone who worked to su ...

Newt Gingrich‘s affair with his future third ... denouncing the GOP platform as having been “kidnapped by the hard right.“) On the eve of the 1994 elections, Gunderson’s friendship with ...