This article is part of The D.C. Brief, TIME’s politics newsletter. Sign up here to get stories like this sent to your inbox. Mitch McConnell’s Unburdened Era has begun. The Kentucky ...

Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell broke with his Republican colleagues by voting against U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) Secretary Pete Hegseth's nomination on Friday, causing some of President ...

Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., was one of three Republicans to vote on Friday against Pete Hegseth, who was narrowly confirmed as defense secretary in the new Trump administration. The other ...

While Sen. Mitch McConnell urged the Supreme Court to uphold a law ahead of its unanimous decision Friday morning, Sen. Rand Paul and other lawmakers had submitted a bipartisan brief asking the ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) — Mitch McConnell, the longest-serving senator from Kentucky, will not be at the helm of the Senate as he finishes his term, but political analysts say his influence is fa ...

I want to be the first to congratulate Mitch McConnell ... And U.S. Rep. Thomas Massie’s entire schtick is tearing down the government. Why wouldn’t he love Hegseth? Now, McConnell’s vote ...

Several Kentucky state and federal lawmakers are heading to Washington, D.C., to watch President-elect Donald Trump assume the United States presidency. Inauguration Day, which occurs every four ...

Senators Lisa Murkowski, Susan Collins and Mitch McConnell voted against confirming Donald Trump’s pick for defense secretary. To Capitol insiders, their decisions weren’t surprising.