The Republican president-elect’s victory and the GOP takeover of the Senate leaves just seven weeks of Democratic control of ...

John Thune’s victory on a secret-ballot continued the long tradition, in both parties, of elevating small-state senators to ...

Two months before Trump takes office, he is challenging congressional Republicans to defy him as he says he will nominate ...

Just hours after being elected Senate majority leader, Senator John Thune faced his first test from President-elect Donald ...

For three of the nation’s highest-ranking and most vital positions, Mr. Trump said he would appoint loyalists with no ...

The Florida representative just resigned from Congress—killing a House Ethics investigation on his alleged sexual misconduct ...

News broke he has been under scrutiny by the House Ethics Committee over allegations including sexual misconduct.

The fight to release a damning House Ethics report about allegations that Matt Gaetz—Donald Trump’s pick for attorney general ...

Thune, of South Dakota, beat out Sens. John Cornyn of Texas and Rick Scott of Florida in a secret ballot election to replace Mitch McConnell.

Sen. John Thune's victory came out of the first competitive election for Senate Republican leader in three decades.

A look at the three candidates: Thune, 63, defeated then-Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle in 2004 after arguing during the campaign that Daschle had lost his South Dakota roots during his years in ...