The incoming Senate majority leader is going to have at least three fights on his hands to confirm Donald Trump’s latest ...

Kennedy, a former Democrat who ran as an independent in this year’s presidential race, abandoned his bid after striking a ...

The president-elect isn’t worried about Senate Republicans growing a backbone. They're unlikely to prove him wrong.

The Republicans in the US Senate picked John Thune as the chamber's new leader Wednesday as lawmakers scrambling to prepare ...

Thune and Texas’ John Cornyn faced off in a secret vote after Florida ... Indiana Republican Senator Todd Young congratulated ...

Twenty years after he won his Senate seat by assailing Tom Daschle’s performance as minority leader, John Thune is the ...

Thune's election comes at a critical time for the Senate GOP, with the party considering wide-ranging legislation that would ...

South Dakota Sen. John Thune was chosen to become the new Republican Senate leader on Wednesday, Nov. 13, replacing longtime ...

Republican Sen. John Thune of South Dakota was elected Senate majority leader on Wednesday after the GOP won control of the ...

S.D., was chosen as the next majority leader of the Senate, succeeding Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell as the GOP’s Senate ...

The South Dakotan will take over in January at the turn of the new Congress, when Republicans are expected to control the ...