John Thune, 63, defeated Sens. John Cornyn and Rick Scott in the secret-ballot vote to succeed Mitch McConnell as Senate ...

Senate Minority Whip John Thune will be the new Republican Senate leader and the majority leader of the upper chamber in the new Congress. In January, he will succeed Senate Minority Leader Mitch ...

Donald Trump stunned the Pentagon and the broader defense world by nominating Fox News host Pete Hegseth to serve as his ...

Republicans in the House and Senate are set to elect their leaders on Wednesday after securing a trifecta — winning the House ...

Senate Republicans have elected their colleague from South Dakota, John Thune, as their new leader in the chamber. The ...

Trump stayed out of the contest, but he made public demands for the incoming majority leader to allow him to make recess ...

Republicans have elected South Dakota Sen. John Thune as the next Senate majority leader, completing a momentous shift in ...

John Thune was voted in as the new Senate majority leader on Wednesday, replacing Mitch McConnell, who had led the Senate's ...

Sen. John Hoeven (R., N.D.), who plans to vote for Thune, came out of the candidate forum Tuesday night saying all three did ...

Sen. Kevin Cramer, R-S.D., said he's voting for Thune but admitted there's "very little" difference between him and Cornyn. "Although Cornyn told me yesterday ... people are saying they're a mirror ...

On the same day he referred to his loss to Democratic Sen. Tammy Baldwin as "brutally hard and painful" and a "gut-wrenching ...