FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — President Donald Trump's blunt-force use of tariffs has forged a rare bipartisan alliance among ...

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

As the contest turns nasty, onetime allies of Senate Republicans’ former leader are now seeking President Trump’s endorsement ...

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Trump FBI Director Kash Patel's confirmation was the result of a significant and long-term effort to get senators' support.

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.

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 ...

Mitch McConnell and is unequivocally on Team Trump. And he did so by torching the longtime Senate leader by name for casting “no” votes on the president’s Cabinet picks to lead the Pentagon ...

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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 reelection, the Kentucky Republican ...