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PIERRE, S.D. ( South Dakota Searchlight) – U.S. Sen. John Thune, R-South Dakota, sponsored a resolution adopted by the Senate ...

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S.D., is now Senate majority leader; North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum has been nominated to be Secretary of Interior; and South ...