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

Senate Republicans have elected Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., as the new Senate majority leader as longtime top Senate Republican ...

Senate Republicans are expected to debut their new leadership team in a press conference around 2:00 pm, after selecting a ...

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

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

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

Now that Florida Senator Marco Rubio is headed to Donald Trump’s Cabinet, MAGA is out in full force with one specific ...

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

Cornyn has for years signaled he wanted to succeed his close ally GOP leader Mitch McConnell. He lost in a vote decided by ...

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

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.

President-elect Donald Trump congratulated Sen. John Thune on winning election to the role of Senate majority leader, ...