When U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell leaves office next year, he'll have completed seven terms in the Senate, making him the longest-serving senator in Kentucky. But senators serving multiple terms isn ...

Donald Trump and Mitch McConnell at a campaign rally in 2019. (Susan Walsh/Associated Press) Sen. Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.) called former President Donald Trump a “despicable human being,” in ...

WASHINGTON — Mitch McConnell, the longest-serving Senate leader in history who maintained his power in the face of dramatic convulsions in the Republican Party for almost two decades ...

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Republican Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell announced he will not seek reelection Thursday. McConnell, 83, led the Senate Republican conference for nearly two decades until he stepped down from his ...

WASHINGTON — Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell endorsed Donald Trump for president Wednesday, a remarkable turnaround from the onetime critic who blamed the former president for ...

Thursday, Sen. Mitch McConnell and Rep. Brett Guthrie introduced the "Mammoth Cave National Park Boundary Adjustment Act" in Congress that would add an additional 551 acres of land from the Nature ...

Democrats and Republicans have both used the term “86,” which means to ban, reject or get rid of something, dictionaries say.

WASHINGTON — Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell announced on Thursday that he won't seek reelection next year, ending a decadeslong tenure as a power broker who championed conservative causes but ...