Mitch McConnell

Mitch McConnell’s moral mishap: Protecting Trump despite disdain – opinion

From 2016 to today, McConnell’s Senate leadership navigated Trump’s rise and moral failings.

 US Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky) holds a news conference following a weekly policy lunch for Senate Republicans at the US Capitol last month.
 U.S. President Joe Biden shakes hands with U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) during an event to tout the new Brent Spence Bridge over the Ohio River between Covington, Kentucky and Cincinnati, Ohio near the bridge in Covington, Kentucky, U.S., January 4, 2023.

Republicans question Biden's 'ironclad' commitment to Israel over shipment halt

US Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, a Republican from Kentucky, stands for a photo at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, US, November 9, 2020.

Mitch McConnell to step down as US Senate Republican leader in November

 Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) stands behind the rostrum as fellow Democratic senators speak to reporters at the Capitol in Washington, U.S., October 31, 2023.

US House Republicans' Israel-only aid bill faces opposition in Senate


McConnell, Biden lapses highlight advanced age of US leaders

Many members of the US Congress are older than President Biden. Are they still suitable?

 U.S. President Joe Biden shakes hands with U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) during an event to tout the new Brent Spence Bridge over the Ohio River between Covington, Kentucky and Cincinnati, Ohio near the bridge in Covington, Kentucky, U.S., January 4, 2023.

Mitch McConnell freezes mid-sentence at press conference in health scare

McConnell, who has served in the Senate since 1985, fell and suffered a concussion and a broken rib in early March and missed six weeks of Senate action.

 THE CURRENT US Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell arrives to speak at the AIPAC Policy Conference in Washington, in 2020.

Top US Senate Republican McConnell recovering in hospital after accident

Currently serving his seventh term, which runs through 2026, McConnell is the third US senator to be hospitalized in recent weeks.

 US SENATE MINORITY Leader Mitch McConnell speaks to reporters at the Capitol on Tuesday.

Holocaust denial spreading in the US -opinion

There has been interest by a still small number of academically educated, intellectual and political figures willing to participate in Holocaust “revisionism.”

 NAZI WAR criminal Adolf Eichmann sits at a desk inside his prison cell in Israel, 1961. To mark the 60th anniversary of his execution, KAN 11 aired a new series that brings to light important documentation of Eichmann’s admission of his guilt.

Zelensky called for recognition of Russia as 'terror state' in meeting with US senators

McConnell was accompanied by Susan Collins of Maine, John Barrasso of Wyoming and John Cornyn of Texas in an unannounced visit to Kyiv on Saturday.

 Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky welcomes US Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), Senator Susan Collins (R-ME), Senator John Barrasso (R-WY) and Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) before a meeting, as Russia's attack on Ukraine continues, in Kyiv, Ukraine May 14, 2022.

Trump and McConnell's Republican family feud - opinion

Even in defeat and exile, the disgraced former president continues to insist he is the GOP’s real leader and “Mitch McConnell does not speak for the Republican Party.”

 SUPREME COURT nominee and federal appeals court Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson arrives for a meeting with US Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell in the Capitol earlier this month.

Mitch McConnell condemns antisemitism after Republicans speak at white nationalist conference

House Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene and Paul Gosar and Arizona State Sen. Wendy Rogers spoke at the America First Political Action Conference in Orlando over the weekend.

US Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, a Republican from Kentucky, stands for a photo at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, US, November 9, 2020.

Pro-Israel orgs appeal to US Senate to replenish Iron Dome

“We ask that you urgently move forward the supplemental appropriations funding to replenish Israel’s Iron Dome missile defense system,” the organizations wrote in a letter.

Jewish Community Leader Susan Stern, Dr. Rabbi Aaron Glatt, US Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and second gentleman Doug Emhoff light menorah candles during a celebration of Hanukkah at the White House in Washington, US, December 1, 2021.

The GOP are moving back in time - Opinion

McConnell intends to use all his skills to make sure few if any Biden programs become law. In that way he and Republicans will go to voters next year to attack the do-nothing Congress.

US SENATE Majority Leader Mitch McConnell speaks after the Senate GOP leadership election on Capitol Hill in Washington on Tuesday.

‘Virtual rally’ to denounce antisemitism unites Pelosi, Schumer, McConnell

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, who is Jewish, said “antisemitism is vile, reprehensible and countering everything that America stands for.”

U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) hold a news conference with fellow congressional Democrats to demand that the U.S. Senate vote on the House-passed "Bipartisan Background Checks Act" passed by the House of Representatives at the U.S. Capitol in W

McConnell, Garland: The unintended consequences of new positions - opinion

Trump wants revenge, but McConnell may get the last laugh and Judge Garland may be the one to deliver it.

ATTORNEY-GENERAL NOMINEE Merrick Garland testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee in Washington on Sunday.