Thune beat out two other competitors, Sens. John Cornyn and Rick Scott, by gaining majority support from GOP senators in a ...

After 18 years of Mitch McConnell, Senate Republicans officially have a new top dog: South Dakota Senator John Thune will ...

Republican majorities in both chambers of the U.S. Congress will give Donald Trump the power to achieve many of his goals ...

WASHINGTON — It was the first seriously contested Senate Republican leadership election in decades. Three senators were ...

Sen. John Thune​ of South Dakota won on the second round of voting against Sen. John Cornyn​ of Texas in the race for Senate ...

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

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

Rick Scott, who would have agreed to Trump’s idea of bypassing the Senate for nominations, lost his bid to become leader.

GOP senators are choosing a new leader this week, and MAGA world is lining up behind Rick Scott in what will be a test of ...

House and Senate Republicans will huddle this week to select a new slate of leaders for the next year’s Congress, the first step towards legislating in the looming Trump administration. The ...

If ever a U.S. president needed the checks and balances that the founders established, it’s law-breaking, oath-violating ...

If ever a U.S. president needed the checks and balances that the founders established, it’s law-breaking, oath-violating ...