Kentucky governor requests update on McConnell’s health amid questions about his condition in hospital – live

According to The Guardian, Kentucky's Democratic governor, Andy Beshear, has taken the unusual step of writing to Mitch McConnell's staff to ask for an update on the Republican senator's condition. McConnell, who is eighty-four, has been in hospital since the fourteenth of June, and questions about his health have been mounting. The Guardian frames Beshear's note as a rare cross-party gesture amid the uncertainty over the senator's recovery.

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