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

The mild-mannered South Dakotan and top McConnell ally recently made efforts to patch up his relationship with ...

Senate Republicans returned to Washington for the first time since they secured the Senate majority to determine who will be ...

He rode a remarkable and ahistoric wave back to re-election last week, one in which his allies expanded their majority in the ...

The leadership election marks a monumental changing of the guard after nearly two decades with McConnell as Senate GOP leader ...

The South Dakota Republican failed in his first try for the Senate but came back to defeat a chamber leader. Now he will be ...

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 ...

Trump announced several controversial cabinet nominees, including Democrat-turned-Republican Tulsi Gabbard for director of ...

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

President-elect Trump took a victory lap in the nation’s capital, bouncing from meetings with House Republicans to President ...

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