The election of Republican John Thune of South Dakota as Senate majority leader tasks a key ally of Mitch McConnell with ...

Top Senate Republicans are withholding support for President-elect Donald Trump’s pick of Matt Gaetz to serve as attorney ...

On the heels of the general election last week, there’s another important vote on tap this Wednesday in Washington that will ...

In the days after President-elect Donald Trump’s victory, allies described his transition effort as far more disciplined than ...

President-elect Donald Trump is already flexing raw power, showing he may try to subvert Washington’s checks and balances and ...

Donald Trump won’t arrive back in the White House until January. But he’ll have fingerprints over every piece of the lame ...

John Thune will replace Mitch McConnell as Senate majority leader, and Mike Johnson will remain House speaker in Congress ...

And CNN reported last week on discussions in the ... immediately pledged to fall in line. South Dakota Sen. John Thune and Texas Sen. John Cornyn, both members of the old Senate guard who are ...

Because it's a secret vote, we don't know exactly who voted for Thune to be the Senate Majority Leader, but we know a few of ...

Thune, a South Dakota conservative, beat Sen John Cornyn of Texas in a 29-24 vote on the second round. Sen. Rick Scott of ...

Historically, presidential Cabinet picks are background-checked by the FBI—but Donald Trump’s administration has instead ...

President-elect Trump is challenging the Senate to dare defy him over the nominations of Matt Gaetz, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.