Senator Mitch McConnell stood on the Senate floor ... and a quiet retreat into irrelevance. McConnell, the turtle who outlasted them all, is finally crawling away. The independent senator is ...

We laughed. Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has a gruff charm. That was his way of poking fun at me when I saw him around town. For a long time, I wanted to quickly snap back by thanking him for ...

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The announced retirement of Senator Mitch McConnell, the erstwhile longest-serving Republican leader in Senate history and one of the most consequential lawmakers of his era, was not unexpected.

Photo: Nathan Howard/Reuters/Saul Loeb/Al Drago - Pool via CNP/Zuma Press If you want to hear many Republican lawmakers’ inner monologue these days, listen to Mitch McConnell. On Monday the ...

When Mitch McConnell took to the floor of the US Senate last week, on his 83d birthday, to announce that he won’t be running for reelection again, he talked about how unlikely it had once seemed ...

After nearly four decades in the Senate, Sen. Mitch McConnell’s (R-Ky.) long tenure is finally coming to an end. Some have hailed him as a master strategist, a guardian of conservative ...

U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell has said he will not run for reelection in 2026, opening up a U.S. Senate seat he's held since 1984. Former Attorney General Daniel Cameron has announced he's running.