Sen. John Thune has won an internal election among Republican senators to become the chamber’s next majority leader ...

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 ...

Republicans have won enough seats to control the House of Representatives, completing the party’s sweep into power and ...

Yet some of Thune’s own views — political and personal — don’t sync up with the leader of the Republican Party, ...

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

Flathead Beacon opinion columnist John McCaslin is a longtime journalist and author. He lives in Bigfork. He was Montana’s ...

The House of Representatives is likely to again be under GOP rule next year, cementing a unified control of power across ...

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.

The South Dakota senator prevailed over John Cornyn and Trump ally Rick Scott in the vote Wednesday.

President-elect Donald J. Trump’s plan to nominate loyalists for critical roles, including Matt Gaetz and Pete Hegseth, has ...

President-elect Donald Trump was elected with a mandate last week. Trump started off by fleshing out his incoming ...

Republicans have elected South Dakota Sen. John Thune as the next Senate majority leader, completing a momentous shift in their leadership that elevates a top deputy of Mitch McConnell into a key ...