When asked about attacks on his record from prospective candidates running for his seat in 2026, McConnell gave a short answer: “The race will be about the future.” ...

As the contest turns nasty, onetime allies of Senate Republicans’ former leader are now seeking President Trump’s endorsement in a sign of how GOP politics have shifted.

It was the most McConnellian of goodbyes. As seven-term Sen. Mitch McConnell stood on the floor of the U.S. Senate on Thursday to announce he would not run for re-election, the Kentucky Republican ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. − Sen. Mitch McConnell, who has spent nearly half a century in the nation's Capitol shaping Republican priorities while thwarting Democratic policies, will not seek reelection ...

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 ...

To the editor: Nice try, Mitch, but too little, too late. (“McConnell tests the strengths and limits of his power opposing a trio of Trump’s Cabinet nominees,” Feb. 18) While no political ...

Mitch McConnell was escorted out of the Capitol in a wheelchair at the Capitol on Wednesday after the 82-year-old senator fell twice in short succession. One of McConnell’s falls occurred on ...

Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) was photographed in a wheelchair Wednesday after reportedly suffering multiple falls on Capitol Hill. “Senator McConnell is fine,” a spokesperson for the 82-year ...

WASHINGTON — Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., the longest-serving Senate leader in history, announced on his 83rd birthday Thursday that he won’t seek re-election next year, bringing an end to his ...