{"id":78688,"date":"2026-09-14T17:55:20","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T22:55:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/14\/mitch-mcconnell-returns-to-senate-after-months-long-absence\/"},"modified":"2026-09-14T17:55:20","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T22:55:20","slug":"mitch-mcconnell-returns-to-senate-after-months-long-absence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/14\/mitch-mcconnell-returns-to-senate-after-months-long-absence\/","title":{"rendered":"Mitch McConnell returns to Senate after months-long absence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 84-year-old said he was prepared to cast his first vote after rampant speculation about his health<\/p>\n<p>Mitch McConnell, the former Republican Senate majority leader, returned to the Capitol on Monday and cast his first vote after a months\u2011long absence that fueled rampant speculation about his health.<\/p>\n<p>The 84-year-old senator has been away from the Senate since mid-June, following what his office said was a fall that left him hospitalized. He was discharged from a rehabilitation center last month.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/sep\/14\/mitch-mcconnell-return-senate\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 84-year-old said he was prepared to cast his first vote after rampant speculation about his health Mitch McConnell, the former Republican Senate majority leader, returned to the Capitol on Monday and cast his first vote after a months\u2011long absence that fueled rampant speculation about his health. The 84-year-old senator has been away from the &#8230; <a title=\"Mitch McConnell returns to Senate after months-long absence\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/14\/mitch-mcconnell-returns-to-senate-after-months-long-absence\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Mitch McConnell returns to Senate after months-long absence\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78688\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}