On the same day that former Rep. Matt Gaetz withdrew from consideration as President-elect Donald Trump's attorney general, ...

U.S. Sen. John Thune, R-South Dakota, sponsored a resolution adopted by the Senate honoring the late Tim Johnson, a Democrat ...

South Dakota’s US Senators honored the late Tim Johnson with a resolution that passed unanimously in the Senate chamber.

Thune is a Mitch McConnell protégé, looked at with suspicion by the MAGA crowd, and considered more establishment ...

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

The Senate would be fundamentally weakened and profoundly diminished if it were to recess the Senate and allow the incoming president to make interim appointments unilaterally and unchallenged, as ...

While some of President-elect Donald Trump 's Cabinet picks have raised eyebrows and calls for the Senate to block their ...

Sen. Mitch McConnell says he will lead a subcommittee overseeing defense spending as he carves out new roles once he relinquishes his long-running post as Senate Republican leader.

The Kentucky conservative said that he now plans to chair the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense, and lead the Senate Rules Committee.

Senate Democrats agreed not to confirm four higher-level circuit court picks and will save the slots for President-elect ...

A group of 45 South Dakota current and elected legislators have written to U.S. Sen. John Thune, asking him to use his new position to focus on the ever-rising federal debt.