John Thune’s victory on a secret-ballot continued the long tradition, in both parties, of elevating small-state senators to the top jobs, banding together for self interest.

The election of Republican Sen. John Thune of South Dakota as the next leader of his party in the chamber – putting him on track to become Senate majority leader next year – tasks a key ally of Mitch McConnell with shepherding the agenda of President-elect Donald Trump through Congress.

Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.), the newly appointed Senate majority leader, sought to quell any doubts among the GOP that he can’t work with President-elect Trump in the hours before his colleagues narrowly voted for him to lead them,

"Trees don't grow to the sky. Definitely not uninterrupted," Peltz said at the CNBC Delivering Alpha conference when asked whether stocks can continue to zoom higher in the wake of Donald Trump's election. "There will be something that will upset it," Peltz said.

I predict the Trump stock market rally is doomed. Why? There's one simple reason. I think the Trump stock market rally will end because of Trump. In particular, stocks will suffer (eventually) because of Trump's tariffs.

Capitol riot in 2021, they all but made peace with his political return this year—tempering their onetime critiques of the candidate and the GOP, hedging their bets in the lead-up to Election Day, forbidding their media apparatuses from endorsing Kamala Harris,

President-elect Donald Trump's new government agency, DOGE, is looking for "super high-IQ small-government revolutionaries."

Musk has spent days bounding in and out of meetings, sitting in on phone calls, weighing resumes and traveling to Washington as Trump’s unofficial co-president.