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McCain Tributes Echo With Criticism Of Trump

John McCain’s daughter opened his memorial service by posing her father’s legacy as a direct challenge to President Donald Trump, setting a tone that echoed the senator’s own fighting spirit as former Presidents Barack Obama and George W. Bush eulogized him Saturday at the Washington National Cathedral.

Friends Call John McCain Hero, Maverick At Arizona Funeral

A former vice president, an NFL star and other friends remembered Sen. John McCain as a β€œtrue American hero” β€” and a terrible driver with a wicked sense of humor and love of a good battle β€” at a crowded church service Thursday for the maverick politician that ended to the tune of Frank Sinatra’s β€œMy Way.”

The Days The Music Died: A Look At Funerals Of The Greats

Elvis, Whitney, Prince, Biggie and, now, Aretha: The funerals and public memorials of music royalty have been as varied as the work they created, from small family affairs to days of tributes as huge in death as they lived their lives.

Sen. John McCain’s Lies In State At Arizona Capitol

Cindy McCain pressed her face against the flag-draped casket of her husband, U.S. Sen. John McCain, on Wednesday and several of his children sobbed during the first of two services for the statesman and former prisoner of war before he is taken for the last time from the state he has represented since the 1980s.

Hurricane’s Death Toll In Puerto Rico Put At Nearly 3,000

Puerto Rico’s governor raised the island’s official death toll from Hurricane Maria from 64 to 2,975 on Tuesday after an independent study found that the number of people who succumbed in the desperate, sweltering months after the storm had been severely undercounted.

War Hero And Presidential Candidate John McCain Dies At 81

Sen. John McCain, who faced down his captors in a Vietnam prisoner of war camp with jut-jawed defiance and later turned his rebellious streak into a 35-year political career that took him to Congress and the Republican presidential nomination, died Saturday after battling brain cancer for more than a year. He was 81.

McCain Stops Cancer Treatment As Remarkable Life Nears End

Arizona Sen. John McCain has discontinued medical treatment for an aggressive form of brain cancer, his family said Friday, likely indicating the war hero, presidential nominee and longtime leading lawmaker is nearing the end of his life.

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