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President-elect Trump attracted a media throng to a Capitol Hill hotel this week, and the usual chaos broke out. "The Trump ...

Rep. August Pfluger (R-Texas) was elected on Friday to chair the Republican Study Committee (RSC), the largest conservative ...

Trump is challenging the Senate to dare defy him over the nominations of Matt Gaetz, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and other ...

Democrat Janelle Bynum has flipped Oregon’s 5th Congressional District and will become the state’s first Black member of ...

John Thune’s victory on a secret-ballot continued the long tradition, in both parties, of elevating small-state senators to ...

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.

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

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

Donald Trump spent much of the 2024 presidential campaign promising to wreak vengeance on his enemies and upend the federal ...

Senate Republicans on Wednesday elected Sen. John Thune of South Dakota—a former corporate lobbyist and close ally of Sen.

Donald Trump was elected with a mandate last week. He's now using it to challenge Republican senators to confirm his Cabinet ...