Sen. Mitch McConnell was a generational force for the Republican Party — using procedural tactics and political will to stymie much of former President Barack Obama’s agenda, hand President ...

WASHINGTON—In 2017, when President Trump was fresh in his first term, then-Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell was asked by a student on a class trip what he thought of the new commander in ...

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Mitch McConnell has realized the consequences of his past Senate leadership, voting against some of Trump’s most unqualified cabinet choices. McConnell is responsible for the supermajority of ...

Mitch McConnell's life -- his childhood battle with polio -- after the Kentucky Republican opposed vaccine skeptic Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s confirmation Thursday as the nation's top health official.

Senator Mitch McConnell has not said whether he would run for reelection next year, but a series of Republicans are gearing up to replace the longtime Republican Kentucky lawmaker. McConnell ...

President Donald Trump derided former Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., as "not equipped mentally" after he went from being the face of the GOP in the upper chamber to opposing his ...

Mitch McConnell is the senior senator of Kentucky. He is the longest-serving Senate party leader in American history. He is the chair of Senate rules and defense appropriations committees and a ...