One-time rising Republican Party rising star Kelly Ayotte is back, after her convincing victory last week to succeed Chris ...

The last time they had power, the GOP passed a number of key pieces of legislation and helped reshape the Supreme Court.

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

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

Donald Trump wants his incoming party leadership to agree to recess appointments even though Republicans control the Senate.

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

John Thune, 63, defeated Sens. John Cornyn and Rick Scott in the secret-ballot vote to succeed Mitch McConnell as Senate majority leader.

Republicans’ primary intervention strategy propelled them to a majority, but they failed to flip four battlegrounds that Donald Trump carried.

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

President-elect Donald Trump is calling on Republicans in the running for Senate majority leadership to allow him to make ...

John Thune of South Dakota, John Cornyn of Texas and Rick Scott of Florida are running in a secret ballot election Wednesday ...

Senate Republicans are poised to make a historic decision on Wednesday when they'll gather behind closed doors to select ...