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.

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 re-election, the Kentucky Republican ...

“You haven’t written anything trashing me lately,” the senior senator from Kentucky once sniped at me. We laughed. Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has a gruff charm. That was his way of poking ...

Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., is finished. The 82-year-old fixture of the Senate, having already stepped down as the longest-serving GOP leader in the body’s history, announced Thursday that he ...

U.S. Senator Mitch McConnell ... First elected in 1984, McConnell made the announcement from the Senate floor. “Seven times, my fellow Kentuckians have sent me to the Senate.

Longtime Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell will not seek reelection next year, he announced Thursday, ending a decades-long run as one of the most powerful Republicans in the country. McConnell ...