Just hours after being elected Senate majority leader, Senator John Thune faced his first test from President-elect Donald ...

On the same day he referred to his loss to Democratic Sen. Tammy Baldwin as "brutally hard and painful" and a "gut-wrenching ...

WASHINGTON — It was the first seriously contested Senate Republican leadership election in decades. Three senators were ...

Republicans in the House and Senate elected their leaders Wednesday after securing a trifecta — winning the House, Senate and ...

Republicans confirmed judges during the final weeks of Donald Trump’s first term. But the president-elect says Democrats ...

As Republicans prepare to take control of the Senate in January, all eyes are on the three-way contest to replace Senate ...

The future of Donald Trump’s second term in office will be shaped inside a closed room in the United States Senate on ...

With Republicans now holding full control of the government, they have a clear path to pursue major immigration reforms, tax ...

Sen. John Thune of South Dakota was elected the next Senate GOP leader, and will become the Senate majority leader in January ...

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

As of Tuesday, Republicans had won 216 seats to Democrats’ 206, according to election results by the Associated Press.

Still, in his first post-election news conference, he promised that Senate Republicans would preserve the legislative filibuster on his watch — the 60-vote threshold that Trump repeatedly, and ...