Republicans have elected South Dakota Sen. John Thune as the next Senate majority leader, completing a momentous shift in ...

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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.

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President-elect Donald Trump said on Thursday he has selected Robert F. Kennedy Jr., an environmental activist who has spread misinformation on vaccines, to lead the Department of Health and Human ...

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John Thune, R-South Dakota,. arrives for the Senate Republican leadership elections at the ... whom President-elect Donald ...

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