McConnell’s absence marks the second straight week without the longest-serving leader at the podium. On Dec. 10, he fell and sprained his wrist as he was leaving a GOP lunch and was treated by ...

A Dec. 14 Facebook post (direct link, archive link) shows Sen. Mitch McConnell with a heavily bandaged head. “Senator, is your head OK after that fall?” a voice asks as McConnell stares off ...

McConnell’s statement may portend a bruising battle over Kennedy’s nomination. Kennedy, a longtime Democrat, founded the non-profit group, Children’s Health Defense, which describes itself ...

It was hard not to wonder how Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, a polio survivor, would respond to the news. As it turned out, we didn’t have to wait too long to find out. In a statement ...

WASHINGTON - Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, a polio survivor, took an apparent swipe at Robert F. Kennedy Jr. after reports that one of Kennedy’s top allies, Aaron Siri, petitioned the ...

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell gave a stern warning to Robert F. Kennedy Jr. after a report highlighted how one of Kennedy's associates had sought to rescind approval for a polio vaccine.

Sen. Mitch McConnell has performed yet another service to the country with a new article in Foreign Affairs (January-February 2025 issue) entitled “The Price of American Retreat: Why Washington ...

Outgoing Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is calling on President-elect Trump to reject isolationists in the Republican Party who will argue for the United States to focus on China ...

Outgoing Senate Minority Leader and polio survivor Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) issued a stern warning Friday to incoming members of President-elect Donald Trump’s administration who may seek to ...

Similarly the 82-year-old Mitch McConnell, although allegedly retiring from leadership of Senate Republicans and himself prone to health scares—including a recent fall that resulted in a ...

Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell issued an apparent warning Friday to Robert F. Kennedy, President-elect Donald Trump's pick to lead the Health and Human Services Department, after The New ...

Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell, who had polio as a child, says any of President-elect Donald Trump’s nominees seeking Senate confirmation should “steer clear” of efforts to ...