The former GOP leader can more freely speak his mind on nominees and defense, but his influence is limited.

The GOP's recent and longest-serving Senate party leader has stood in opposition to his conference multiple times, ...

U.S. Sen. Bill Cassidy once stood up to Donald Trump's excesses, even as then-Senate GOP leader enabled them.Those days are ...

Sen. Mitch McConnell was a generational force for the Republican Party — using procedural tactics and political will to ...

No longer in charge, Sen. Mitch McConnell has been speaking his mind, the long-serving GOP leader rejecting President Donald Trump’s more high-profile Cabinet nominees — alone at times am ...

Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) says he expects former Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) to vote with Senate ...

Kennedy Jr, a vocal vaccine skeptic and activist lawyer, was confirmed Thursday as the nation’s new health secretary. The Senate voted largely alo ...

Former Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell broke ranks with Donald Trump on three controversial cabinet picks. But all three ...

Unshackled from leadership and likely to retire, McConnell is increasingly irking GOP colleagues on Trump nominees while offering Democrats welcomed surprises.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is the country's Heath and Human Services secretary after the Senate confirmed him Thursday morning. Republicans hold a 53-47 majority in the Senate and the 52-48 vote for ...

President Donald Trump seems to have questioned a well-documented part of Sen. Mitch McConnell’s life — his childhood battle with polio.