Former Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell announced Thursday, the day he turned 83, that this would be his final term in office and he would not seek reelection in 2026. The Republican senator ...

He’d be 84 at the time of the election. According to his U.S. Senate biography, McConnell is the second-ever Kentuckian to be Majority Leader of the Senate and held the position from 2015 to 2021.

When McConnell declined to seek the position as Republican leader this past year, instead passing the torch to current Senate Majority Leader John Thune, it was an indication that the self-declared ...

CNN political commentator Van Jones told CNN host Erin Burnett there is a "volanic" level of anger at Senate Majority Leader ...

A shutdown would give Donald Trump the keys to the city, the state and the country,” Schumer said on the Senate floor when he ...

As majority leader during the last two years of President Barack Obama’s presidency, McConnell used his control of the Senate to slow judicial confirmations to all but a trickle. He also led his party ...

No longer in charge, Sen. Mitch McConnell has been speaking his mind. The long-serving former Republican leader rejected ...

McConnell, elected in 1984, climbed his way up to the Senate Republican leader position in 2007 and remained there until early 2025, serving during four administrations in the majority and the ...

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said he would back a Republican-led stopgap bill to avert a government shutdown, 24 ...

No one in the GOP has done more to push the U.S. Supreme Court to the far right than Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky), who ...

Despite his decades towering over Washington as a top GOP leader, he is now eclipsed by President Trump’s takeover of his ...

He’d be 84 at the time of the election. According to his U.S. Senate biography, McConnell is the second-ever Kentuckian to be ...