...pushing back against President Donald Trump's assertions that the Arizona Republican helped fan the flames of the Russia investigation.

But it’s hard to see it as inherently more newsworthy than the flooding in Nebraska. Especially given that the flooding [...] bears the fingerprints of climate change.

Inside the powerful and populist wing of the party that is most loyal to Trump, McCain is not a revered war hero but a useful foil

The president [...] was asked [...] why he “spent a good portion of your time in Ohio the other day trashing” McCain when the senator is dead.

Along with the workers, Trump also attacked U.S. Sen. John McCain and went on a tirade about renewable energy during his appearance

Those comments come after a weekend in which Trump repeatedly attacked McCain, who, in case you forgot, is deceased

The sharp dichotomy of Trump’s pugilistic posts and the dignified memorial service, broadcast live by cable news stations and online, underscored the president’s unwillingness to embrace the traditional duties of office and his scorn of Washington’s protocols and conventions

The Republican senator from Arizona, who planned his own funeral, chose Russian dissident Vladimir Kara-Murza as one of the dignitaries to carry his coffin to the front of the Washington National Cathedral

McCain never had cancer, either. Instead, all that "cancer" talk was simply McCain laying the groundwork for his eventual suicide, so he wouldn't be taken off to Guantanamo

It had been lowered to half-staff Sunday but then raised again on Monday morning

Presidential protocol says that Trump should have issued a proclamation regarding McCain's death, reports NBC News, and traditionally, White House flags would have remained lowered until the senator is buried. McCain is set to be interred Sunday in Maryland.

Manafort saw managing the 2008 Republican convention as almost a birthright. But McCain denied him the job. He couldn’t abide Manafort’s pro-Russian clients—and told him so.

Trump nixed issuing a statement that praised the heroism and life of Sen. John McCain, telling senior aides he preferred to issue a tweet before posting one Saturday night that did not include any kind words for the late Arizona Republican.

“Later on, when he became a US Senator, he and Senator John Kerry greatly contributed to promote Việt Nam-US relations so I was very fond of him,” Duyet added.

Following Sen. McCain’s wishes for his funeral, widely reported earlier this year, Vice President Mike Pence — not President Donald Trump, who publicly disparaged McCain on numerous occasions — is expected to attend

McCain, the proud naval aviator who climbed from depths of despair as a prisoner of war in Vietnam to pinnacles of power as a Republican congressman and senator from Arizona and a two-time contender for the presidency, died on Saturday at his home in Arizona.

...a sign that the Republican war hero is most likely entering his final days.

Trump and McCain are engaged in a long-running feud that dates to Trump’s 2016 presidential run.

McCain described the 45-minute press conference as “one of the most disgraceful performances by an American president in memory.”

"The thing that surprised me most is, I don't understand what kind of environment you're working in where that would be acceptable, and then you can come to work the next day and still have a job,

Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the White House press secretary, said she would not comment on a closed-door meeting where the joke was made. And she offered no words of regret over the remark or sympathy for Mr. McCain

“It doesn’t matter, he’s dying anyway”

“Ms. Haspel’s role in overseeing the use of torture by Americans is disturbing. Her refusal to acknowledge torture’s immorality is disqualifying”

Sen. John McCain, whose experience as a prisoner of war in Vietnam has established him as Congress’s moral conscience on torture, asked CIA director nominee Gina Haspel to detail her role in the agency’s enhanced interrogation program.

Adam Schiff says Republicans are doing Trump’s dirty work on the Russia investigation.

McCain, who is battling brain cancer, has returned home to Arizona and is likely to miss the Senate’s vote this week to approve a sweeping tax overhaul

He raised some general concerns about ballooning the deficit — one reason he voted against the Bush tax cuts in 2001 and 2003 — but stressed in his statement that he believed the tax measure would ultimately boost the economy and ease deficit issues.

...working on a proposal to update the broad war powers Congress gave the commander in chief after the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

On C-SPAN McCain says, “One aspect of the (Vietnam) conflict by the way that I will never ever countenance is that we drafted the lowest income level of America and the highest income level found a doctor that would say that they had a bone spur. That is wrong. That is wrong.”

"I'm being very, very nice but at some point I fight back and it won't be pretty," Mr Trump told WMAL on Tuesday in response to a question about the senator's remarks.

"To fear the world we have organized and led for three-quarters of a century, to abandon the ideals we have advanced around the globe, to refuse the obligations of international leadership and our duty to remain “the last best hope of earth” for the sake of some half-baked, spurious nationalism cooked up by people who would rather find scapegoats than solve problems is as unpatriotic as an attachment to any other tired dogma of the past that Americans consigned to the ash heap of history."

“The American people do not like gerrymandering. It leaves them feeling powerless and discouraged; that their votes are wasted and voices silenced," they said Tuesday. "They see it rigging our political system to favor special interests."

The Arizona senator said ... that Republicans should instead work with Democrats on a health care bill and that any legislation should go through the regular order of committee hearings and markups.

The list of people he has been willing, even eager, to publicly attack includes not just Mitch McConnell, his latest target, but Jeff Sessions, Chuck Schumer, Paul D. Ryan, John McCain, Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama.

...the Senate can only consider one budget reconciliation bill per topic per year.

But that “no” came from atop 50 other votes of opposition, not all of them easy.

The Senate Republicans’ push to dismantle Obamacare collapsed in dramatic fashion early Friday morning, when two centrist GOP women and Sen. John McCain of Arizona teamed up to sink an already scaled-back effort to dismantle the 2010 health care law.

Lawmakers in both parties slammed President Trump’s decision on Wednesday to bar transgender Americans from serving in the military

'I will not vote for this bill as it is today,' says senator before voting in its favour

McCain is expected to get GOP leadership one vote closer to beginning debate on health care legislation, which is on the verge of collapsing.

His office said Mr. McCain would decide when to return to the Senate as he consults with his medical advisers.

...and it may delay his return to Washington by at least a week or two, medical experts said on Sunday.

Privately, Republicans said the delay could be as little as a week as McCain recovers in Arizona, though others worried it could stretch for several weeks and jeopardize the entire repeal effort.

“Following a routine annual physical, Sen. John McCain underwent a procedure to remove a blood clot from above his left eye on Friday, July 14 at Mayo Clinic Hospital in Phoenix.”

...the world is "not sure of American leadership, whether it be in Siberia or whether it be in Antarctica."

“With those words, Secretary Tillerson sent a message to oppressed people everywhere: Don’t look to the United States for hope.”

Republican Sen. John McCain told CNN's Alisyn Camerota there was more than enough blame to go around for Obama and Trump.

McCain blamed House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes on Sunday for destroying the bipartisan nature of the committee's investigation

Congress has to come to an agreement before the government runs out of money April 28. Raising the stakes? Congress is on recess for two weeks in mid-April.

“The chairman will need to decide whether he is the chairman of an independent investigation into conduct which includes allegations of potential coordination between the Trump campaign and the Russians, or he is going to act as a surrogate of the White House, because he cannot do both”

“This whole issue of the relationship with the Russians and who communicated with them and under what circumstances clearly cries out for an investigation”

"...if you want to preserve democracy as we know it, you have to have a free and many times adversarial press," McCain said in the interview. "And without it, I am afraid that we would lose so much of our individual liberties over time. That's how dictators get started."

The Republican Senator broke with the reassuring message that US officials visiting Germany have sought to convey on their debut trip to Europe

“Because the mission failed did not in any way diminish their courage and willingness to help their fellow Americans who were held captive. Mr. Spicer should know that story.”

“In short, Australia is one of America’s oldest friends and staunchest allies. We are united by ties of family and friendship, mutual interests and common values, and shared sacrifice in wartime.”

We are particularly concerned by reports that this order went into effect with little to no consultation with the Departments of State, Defense, Justice, and Homeland Security.