President Trump is on a collision course with Republican defense hawks over the question of whether the United States should ...

Do we see men of principle only once they’ve announced their retirement?

McConnell made his first local appearance since he announced he would not seek re-election next year. Speaking with reporters ...

Senate Republicans had gathered for one of their regular private lunches last Wednesday when Rand Paul commanded their attention. As Senators sipped diet sodas and grazed on sandwiches, the Kentucky ...

President Donald Trump picks every member of his cabinet, but he needs the support of a majority of the Senate for them to be confirmed. A Senate committee questions each nominee in a hearing before ...

As the contest turns nasty, onetime allies of Senate Republicans’ former leader are now seeking President Trump’s endorsement in a sign of how GOP politics have shifted.

After being shocked by President Donald Trump's flurry of activity to slash and burn the federal government, progressive activists have a new strategy for fighting back: protesting congressional ...

[Read: Mitch McConnell’s worst political miscalculation] Most of ... He said he hasn’t talked to Trump since Trump’s first term ended. He did speak with Joe Biden recently. “Not in any great detail.

Mitch McConnell ... not have happened without McConnell. Like an aging one-time all-star clinging to his career, McConnell stayed in senatorial gerontocracy one term too long.

Mitch McConnell ... has shaped American politics for decades. McConnell made the announcement on the Senate floor Thursday, ...