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

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

Senate Republicans have selected a new Senate majority leader to succeed Mitch McConnell, the longest-serving Senate party ...

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 ...