Mitch McConnell will miss a major political picnic in Kentucky this Saturday after doctors ruled the Republican Senate leader is not yet medically cleared to leave a rehabilitation facility, his office confirmed on Monday.
The weeks of speculation about the 82-year-old's condition, following a 14 June fall that left McConnell briefly unconscious and hospitalised. His team had initially released almost no detail about the incident, a silence that fuelled mounting questions in his home state and in Washington about the health of one of the most powerful figures in US politics.
