Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell announced he would step down from his leadership post earlier this year, ending his historic ...

Sen. John Thune of South Dakota is set to lead the Senate as majority leader in the new Congress, after Republicans flipped ...

On Wednesday, Republicans chose Sen. John Thune of South Dakota to be the next Senate Majority Leader. That's despite an ...

Senate Republicans elected South Dakota Sen. John Thune to succeed Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell as leader of the Senate's ...

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

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

McConnell is resigning his leadership role after a record 18 years in the position, just in time for Thune to become the ...

Senate Republicans tapped John Thune of South Dakota to lead the conference for the next two years and succeed Mitch ...

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

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

John Thune, John Cornyn and Rick Scott are vying to succeed Mitch McConnell as the Republicans leader in the U.S. Senate.

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