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Mitch McConnell health update: Top Trump-ally claims staff ‘using’ Senator ‘to cling to power’; ‘it’s cruel’

Mitch McConnell health update: Top Trump-ally claims staff ‘using’ Senator ‘to cling to power’; ‘it’s cruel’

GOP Senator Mitch McConnell has been missing from public life after a June 14 health incident. At a time when the US is negotiating a peace deal with Iran, McConnell, the US Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense chair, is away from the developments. US Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense Chair Senator Mitch McConnell at Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. on May 19. (REUTERS) While health concerns have existed after the June 14 incident, it only escalated on Wednesday after an EMS call from the Senator’s residence on June 14 surfaced on social media. The same morning McConnell was hospitalized, the EMS call details that a person at McConnell’s residence was experiencing cardiac arrest and had to be administered CPR while unconscious. NBC News verified the audio and that it happened at McConnell’s residence. However, there is no confirmation that the individual who was attended to by the EMS team was the 84-year-old Alabama Senator. His office has been tight-lipped about the hospitalization, releasing no details about why the Senator was hospitalized and what his current …

PM Modi pens article on Atal Bihari Vajpayee on 100th birth anniversary: ‘Wasn’t one to cling on to power’ | Latest News India

PM Modi pens article on Atal Bihari Vajpayee on 100th birth anniversary: ‘Wasn’t one to cling on to power’ | Latest News India

Prime Minister Narendra Modi led greetings on the 100th birth anniversary of former PM and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) stalwart Atal Bihari Vajpayee, calling him the “architect of India’s transition into the 21st century that set stage for country’s economic surge”. PM Modi (R) with former prime minister of India and BJP stalwart Atal Bihari Vajpayee.(Narendra Modi) Modi penned his thoughts on Vajpayee’s contribution to the nation in an article which was carried by several newspapers on the 100th birth anniversary of the former prime minister on Wednesday. Modi said he spent his long parliamentary tenure largely in the Opposition benches but never carried any trace of bitterness even though the Congress stooped to new lows by going to the extent of calling him a “traitor”. “He stands tall as a statesman who continues to inspire countless people,” Modi wrote in the article. In the article, Modi also shared pictures of the moments he shared with Atal Bihari Vajpayee. Modi said it was a privilege for many Bharatiya Janata Party members like him to learn …