“Here was this tall, handsome young man,” gushed Mrs. Thune. “It was like, ‘wow,' and sure enough, that was John. That's how we met, and it was the South Dakota connection,” she explaine ...

Thune knows the stakes all too well: Retaliatory tariffs during Trump’s 2018 trade war with China crippled South Dakota’s agriculture-dependent economy — which relies on the billions of dollars worth ...

But that’s a tall order. Thune ... But members of Thune’s leadership team — including Sens. John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) and Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) — backed Trump’s tariff threat ...

Sen. John Thune (R-SD) has added a touch of South Dakota to his new Senate office, hanging a bison head named Murdo in the front room of his majority leader suite. Senate staff wheeled the ...