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

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 ...

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 ...

"If Donald Trump says jump three feet high and scratch your head, we all jump three feet high and scratch our heads and that’s it,” Troy Nehls said.

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

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

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

Pro-life advocacy groups, which constitute an essential part of the Republican Party’s electoral coalition, reacted favorably ...

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 ...

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.