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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell shut down speculation about his retirement in a new interview on Sunday. "I'm still in the height of my career," the 79-year-old told local PBS station Kentucky Educational Television. "I'm at the top of my game."

McConnell Out? Insiders Drop Bomb, May Not Finish Out Term: Report By Kipp Jones Published March 6, 2021 at 11:29am Mewe Share After being elected to seven terms in the U.S. Senate, a report claims Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell might be on his way out and seeking someone to replace him. McConnell, 79, most recently cruised to his sixth re-election in November by a margin of 57.8 percent to 38.2 percent over Democratic challenger Amy McGrath. Former President Donald Trump endorsed McConnell in the race, which Democrats reportedly felt would be more competitive than it was. But following Biden’s...

U.S. Attorney Byung J. “BJay” Pak resigned his position Monday, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Georgia. In October 2017, Pak was sworn into the office. He previously served as an assistant U.S. Attorney from 2002 to 2008 and in the Georgia General Assembly as a state representative from January 2011 to January 2017. Pak’s office offered no further comment about the resignation.

Sen. Mitch McConnell 'looks and fights like a TURTLE' says Texas U.S. Senate candidate, blasting his opponent for working with the minority leader Dwayne Stovall wants Texans to know that U.S. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell 'looks and fights like a turtle,' and he hopes that image will bleed over to Republican Sen. John Cornyn – the man whose job he wants. 'We Texans don't need a Beltway turtle telling us how to fight,' Stovall says in his newest video ad. The slight is related to what Stovall sees as a lack of action from Cornyn, the state's senior senator...

Fox News host Greta Van Susteren on Friday blasted a bizarre television spot by longshot Texas Senate candidate Dwayne Stovall that likens Minority Leader Mitch McConnell to a Looney Tunes turtle. "This ad is lousy," Van Susteren said on her Fox website. "It is gratuitously insulting. "I have no idea whether Stovall is a great candidate or not — but his ad makes me think he is a jerk," she added. "You can be clever and funny in ads … or you can be gratuitously insulting." In the ad, Stovell, one of seven candidates vying to unseat Sen. John Cornyn...

Some within the Tea Party are furious over the decision by Senate Minority leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) to help shepherd the passage of the debt ceiling increase earlier this week. Both McConnell and Senate Minority Whip John Cornyn (R-Tx.) have come under fire -- with national conservative groups slamming McConnell and one of Cornyn's primary challengers, Rep. Steve Stockman, sending a colorful tweet criticizing the incumbent Thursday night. But, just when you thought you had seen it all comes this ad via Dwayne Stovall, who is also challenging Cornyn in the Texas primary.

Dwayne Stovall, a Republican Senate candidate from Texas mounting a (longshot) bid to oust Texas Sen. John Cornyn is out with a new ad comparing Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell to a turtle.

DESTIN, Fla. - A beach restoration project in the Florida Panhandle has been shut down until next fall after an endangered sea turtle was killed, authorities said. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers stopped the work after the Kemp's ridley sea turtle was killed during dredging Sunday. It was the third endangered sea turtle killed since the project began...

<p>IF YOU TOOK every failed, trendy educrat idea, packaged them in a school and put radical animal-rights activists in charge of it, you'd end up with something like the Humane Education Learning Community -- a K-6 charter school approved by Sacramento's San Juan Unified School District.</p>

Police Clash With Students After Maryland Wins in Final FourBy Stephen Manning Associated Press WriterPublished: Mar 31, 2002 COLLEGE PARK, Md. (AP) - Police in riot gear and riding horseback fired pellets into a crowd of hundreds of celebrating Maryland basketball fans early Sunday, hours after the Terrapins advanced to the national championship game. Several fans were hit with pellets that contained a white powdery substance that burns the throat when breathed. Some students on the scene said police used pepper spray to break up the crowd. Heavy rain around 1 a.m. forced many people to leave the scene. About...