Latest Mitch McConnell News

Schumer's rebuke of Netanyahu shows the long, fragile line the US and allies walk on interference

Mar. 16, 2024 11:09 AM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans and Israeli officials were quick to express outrage after Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer sharply criticized Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's handling of the war in Gaza and called for Israel to hold new elections. They accused the Democratic leader of...

Top Democrat Schumer calls for new elections in Israel, saying Netanyahu is an obstacle to peace

Mar. 14, 2024 19:36 PM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer on Thursday called on Israel to hold new elections, saying he believes Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has “lost his way” and is an obstacle to peace in the region amid a growing humanitarian crisis in Gaza. ...

Republicans push back on new federal court policy aimed at 'judge shopping' in national cases

Mar. 14, 2024 18:24 PM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Republicans took aim Thursday at a new federal courts policy trying to curb “judge shopping,” a practice that gained national attention in a major abortion medication case. Minority Leader Mitch McConnell spoke out against it on the Senate floor and...

Senators warn more visas are urgently needed for Afghans who aided the US in the war

Mar. 14, 2024 12:42 PM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — Senators from both major political parties are urging congressional leaders to ensure that more visas are made available to Afghans who worked alongside U.S. troops in America’s longest war before a crucial pathway to safety in the United States abruptly closes. ...

Editorial Roundup: United States

Mar. 12, 2024 15:40 PM EDT

Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: March 11 The Washington Post on Biden, taxes and the middle class Like most presidential budgets before it, President Biden’s fiscal 2025 tax and spending blueprint is more of a political...

Angela Chao, shipping industry exec, died on Texas ranch after her car went into a pond, report says

Mar. 11, 2024 23:43 PM EDT

JOHNSON CITY, Texas (AP) — Angela Chao, a shipping industry CEO and sister-in-law to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, died on a Texas ranch last month after her car went into a pond and became submerged in water for an extended period of time, The Wall Street Journal reported. ...

Katie Britt calls Biden a 'diminished leader' in GOP response to the State of the Union

Mar. 08, 2024 02:11 AM EST

WASHINGTON (AP) — Sitting at her kitchen table in Alabama, Sen. Katie Britt called President Joe Biden a “dithering and diminished leader” and warned of a bleak American future under his presidency in the Republican rebuttal to his State of the Union address Thursday evening. ...

Editorial Roundup: Kentucky

Mar. 07, 2024 13:46 PM EST

Bowling Green Daily News. March 2, 2024. Editorial: Kentucky will miss McConnell’s influence in D.C. Sen. Mitch McConnell’s plan to step down as the GOP minority leader in the Senate in November will have a reverberating effect on Kentucky. There...

McConnell endorses Trump for president. He once blamed Trump for 'disgraceful' Jan. 6, 2021, attack

Mar. 06, 2024 15:40 PM EST

WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell endorsed Donald Trump for president on Wednesday, a remarkable turnaround from the onetime critic who blamed the then-president for “disgraceful” acts in the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack but now supports his bid to return to the White...

Trump has become the last Republican standing in the 2024 primary. Here's how he bulldozed the field

Mar. 06, 2024 12:48 PM EST

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Eight years after Donald Trump outlasted a crowded field of Republican presidential candidates with his pugilistic and sometimes vulgar style, the former reality show star has done it again. The former president is now the last major GOP candidate standing and...