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

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.

A look at the three candidates: Thune, 63, defeated then-Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle in 2004 after arguing during the campaign that Daschle had lost his South Dakota roots during his years in ...

Tensions are brewing over President-elect Trump’s move to tap Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) to serve as secretary of State, with ...

The South Dakota senator prevailed over John Cornyn and Trump ally Rick Scott in the vote Wednesday.

Social Security may become insolvent as early as 2035. President-elect Donald Trump previously vowed tax cuts for seniors.

The race to succeed McConnell has heated up since Election Day, when Republicans flipped the upper chamber of Congress after ...

A Denver state senator plans to leave the Colorado legislature after he was announced as the CEO of the La Plata Electric ...

On Sunday, Trump posted that former U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director Tom Homan would be joining as the ...

The case is one of several ongoing legal challenges to Biden administration policies that the incoming Trump administration may refuse to defend after the White House changes hands.

Thanks to Elon Musk’s influence, the president-elect has waffled on the future of America’s electric transition.

Sens.-elect Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.) and Angela Alsobrooks (D-Md.) will become the first two Black women to serve ...