President-elect Donald Trump is considering recess appointments to skip over Senate confirmations for some of the most ...

Republicans are going to court in Pennsylvania amid vote counting in the U.S. Senate election between Democratic Sen.

President-elect Donald Trump is pushing for recess appointments to place members of his administration into positions without ...

Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell announced he would step down from his leadership post earlier this year, ending his historic ...

The pragmatic establishment figure who offers candid political takes as McConnell’s voter-counter is someone Democrats say is ...

Cornyn has for years signaled he wanted to succeed his close ally GOP leader Mitch McConnell. He lost in a vote decided by ...

Donald Trump has won the public embrace of virtually every Republican currently in federal elected office. In private, ...

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 ...

President-elect Donald Trump congratulated Sen. John Thune on winning election to the role of Senate majority leader, ...

The mild-mannered South Dakotan and top McConnell ally recently made efforts to patch up his relationship with ...

The leadership election marks a monumental changing of the guard after nearly two decades with McConnell as Senate GOP leader ...