Plus, Sen. John Thune will be the next Senate majority leader, while President-elect Donald Trump continues to build his next ...

For all the drama generated every four years by Cabinet appointments, defeat of a nominee by a vote in the Senate is ...

The Republican president-elect’s victory and the GOP takeover of the Senate leaves just seven weeks of Democratic control of ...

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

In the first seriously contested Senate Republican leadership election in decades, three senators are vying to replace ...

President-elect Trump took a victory lap in the nation’s capital, bouncing from meetings with House Republicans to President ...

Thune beat out two other competitors, Sens. John Cornyn and Rick Scott, by gaining majority support from GOP senators in a ...

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

The Republicans in the US Senate on Wednesday elected John Thune of South Dakota as the chamber's next majority leader. The ...

Trump is challenging congressional Republicans to defy him as he says he will nominate controversial figures to his Cabinet.

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

President-elect Donald J. Trump is seeking to circumvent the long and drawn-out process of having to submit nominations to ...