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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 375

John McCain

President Joe Biden speaks about democracy at the Tempe Center for the Arts, September 28, 2023, in Tempe, Arizona. (AP/Ross D. Franklin)
September 29, 2023, 10:13 am
Biden warns that Trump and Republican party could ‘smash’ democracy in America
US president accuses GOP of ‘deafening silence,’ saying that the party is ‘driven and intimidated by MAGA extremists,’ a reference to devotees of the former president
By Seung Min Kim, JONATHAN J. COOPER and Will Weissert
Sen. Mark Kelly, Democrat-Arizona, with his wife former Rep. Gabby Giffords, Democrat-Arizona, participates in a re-enactment of his swearing-in ceremony in the Old Senate Chamber on Capitol Hill in Washington, December 2, 2020. (Nicholas Kamm/Pool via AP)
December 2, 2020, 11:17 pm
Mark Kelly sworn into Senate for Arizona, narrowing GOP edge
Husband of former Jewish congresswoman Gabby Giffords, who survived assassination attempt, gives Democrats 48 seats in upper chamber
By Alan Fram
US President Donald Trump speaks as he visits Section 60 at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va., Saturday, Dec. 15, 2018, during Wreaths Across America Day. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
September 4, 2020, 10:22 pm
Biden slams Trump over alleged comments mocking US war dead as ‘losers’
Democratic nominee declares Trump ‘unfit’ for the presidency after Atlantic report; ‘It is absolutely damning. It is a disgrace,’ says Biden. ‘Who the heck does he think he is?’
By Zeke Miller and Alexandra Jaffe
US President Donald Trump arrives to attend a commemoration ceremony for Armistice Day, 100 years after the end of the First World War at the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, France, Sunday, November 11, 2018. (Benoit Tessier/Pool Photo via AP)
September 4, 2020, 6:13 am
Report: Trump disparaged American war dead as ‘losers’ and ‘suckers’
US president declined to visit military cemetery in France in 2018 because he feared rain would mess up his hair and dead soldiers were ‘losers’ anyway, officials say
By JAMES LaPORTA
The Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer USS John S. McCain. (MCS Jeremy Graham/US Navy)
June 2, 2019, 5:46 pm
Pentagon tells White House to stop politicizing military
Acting US defense chief Shanahan considering steps after White House requested hiding ship named for dead Trump critic John McCain
By Lolita C. Baldor
President Donald Trump greets troops after speaking at a Memorial Day event aboard the USS Wasp, Tuesday, May 28, 2019, in Yokosuka, Japan. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
May 30, 2019, 8:38 am
White House reportedly wanted USS McCain out of Trump’s view in Japan
The late senator had a frosty and contentious relationship with the president, who denies any knowledge of request
By Lolita C. Baldor
US President Donald Trump speaks with the media after stepping off Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House, March 24, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
March 25, 2019, 11:52 pm
Democrats demand full Mueller report; Trump says that’s OK with him
US president says release of document ‘wouldn’t bother me at all,’ as political rivals plot a strategy for their own investigations
By MARY CLARE JALONICK
Former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., right, listens as her husband Mark Kelly, left, speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington, October 2, 2017. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)
February 12, 2019, 11:39 pm
Ex-astronaut Mark Kelly announces run for McCain Senate seat
Husband of former Congresswoman Gabby Giffords, who survived a failed assassination attempt, throws hat in one of the most closely contested races of the 2020 election
By JONATHAN J. COOPER
Election assistant Wayne Martin helps volunteers string lights as they set up voting booths at a polling station inside the library at Robert F. Kennedy Elementary School in Los Angeles on June 5, 2018 (AP Photo/Richard Vogel)
October 19, 2018, 10:42 pm
In first, Russian woman charged with interference in US midterm elections
Elena A. Khusyaynova of St. Petersburg is accused of creating thousands of social media and email accounts appearing to belong to US citizens
By ToI Staff and Agencies
Former Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., talks about his appointment by Gov. Doug Ducey, R-Ariz., to fill Sen. John McCain's seat in the US Senate at a news conference at the Arizona Capitol September 4, 2018, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
September 4, 2018, 11:00 pm
Former Arizona US Sen. Jon Kyl to replace John McCain
Lawyer, who retired from Senate in 2012, seen as safe bet for Republicans, but will only serve until end of year
By Melissa Daniels
In this photo provided by the family of John McCain, Cindy McCain lays her head on the casket of Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., during a burial service at the cemetery at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md., on Sunday, Sept. 2, 2018. (David Hume Kennerly/McCain Family via AP)
September 3, 2018, 3:29 am
After a week of bipartisan tribute, McCain is laid to rest
Arizona Senator buried at the US Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, next to the grave of his best friend Admiral Chuck Larson
By Brian Knowlton
The casket of the late US Senator John McCain, Republican of Arizona, is carried out after the National Memorial Service at the Washington National Cathedral in Washington, DC, September 1, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / SAUL LOEB)
September 2, 2018, 3:06 am
At funeral for McCain, a show of defiance against Trump
Mourners use service to contrast late senator’s commitment to civility and greater good with president’s bombast and politics of fear
By Laurie Kellman
US President Donald Trump speaks during a bill signing event at Harris Conference Center August 31, 2018 in Charlotte, North Carolina. / AFP PHOTO / Brendan Smialowski
September 2, 2018, 12:07 am
Trump seen as neglecting symbolic power of office
The president’s seeming inability to seize the ceremonial, symbolic power of his post threatens to change an important aspect of the office itself
By Julie Pace
John McCain (with Joe Lieberman) visits the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City March 19, 2008. (Nati Shohat /FLASH90)
September 1, 2018, 11:08 pm
Joe Lieberman lauds McCain’s sensitivity to Jewish observance, love of Jerusalem
In eulogy, former senator recalls Republican colleague went out of his way to observe ‘Shalom Shabbat’ with him during trips abroad
By Ron Kampeas
A military honor guard team carries the casket of Sen. John McCain from the US Capitol, Saturday, Sept. 1, 2018 in Washington. (Win McNamee/Pool photo via AP)
September 1, 2018, 6:22 pm
At funeral, McCain’s daughter mourns passing of ‘real’ American greatness
Meghan McCain lambastes ‘cheap rhetoric from men who will never come near his sacrifice’; three presidents, but not Trump, pay tribute at Washington service
By Laurie Kellman
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