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Conspiracy theories about Sen. McConnell's health spread after his office posts hospital photo

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Conspiracy theories about Sen. McConnell's health spread after his office posts hospital photo

Even two of McConnell's GOP colleagues questioned the photograph without evidence in a sign of political distrust after his office spent weeks declining to explain his hospitalization.

By Scott Wong, Frank Thorp V and Brennan Leach

WASHINGTON — A new photo of Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., smiling and sitting up in the hospital was meant to put to rest rumors that the former powerful Republican leader was incapacitated, or worse.

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