Senate Minority Whip John Thune will be the new Republican Senate leader and the majority leader of the upper chamber in the new Congress.  In January, he will succeed Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., who is the longest-serving party leader in Senate history.  Sources told Fox News Digital that no candidate reached a majority during the first secret ballot in the old Senate chamber on Wednesday morning....

The White House released a fact-sheet about the Biden administration’s work at the U.N. Global Climate Change Summit being held this week, detailing the work the U.S. delegation will undergo while in attendance.  The U.S. delegation, according to the fact sheet, will focus on three main pillars while at the climate conference in Azerbaijan, one of which is to address the national security “risks” that climate change poses. ...

Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., was knocked out of the Senate leader race after the first secret ballot on Wednesday morning, during which none of the three candidates received a majority of the votes. Sources told Fox News that Scott received the least amount of votes during the first ballot.  The senators advanced to a second secret ballot between only Senate Minority Whip John Thune, R-S.D., and Sen. John...