Senator John McCain Dead at 81

Senator John McCain Dead at 81
Sen. John McCain addresses the media during press conference at the US Embassy in Sarajevo on April 11, 2017. ELVIS BARUKCIC/AFP/Getty Images
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WASHINGTON —U.S. Senator John McCain died on Saturday, his office said. He was 81.
McCain, a U.S. senator from Arizona for over three decades, had been battling glioblastoma, an aggressive brain cancer, discovered by his doctors in July 2017, and had not been at the U.S. Capitol in 2018. He also had surgery for an intestinal infection in April of this year.