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Sen. John McCain, an Arizona Republican and two-time presidential candidate whose military service, foreign policy gravitas and occasional aversion to party politics made him one of the most influential lawmakers of this generation, has died. He was 81.McCain life in public service spanned six decades and included a career in the Navy, five-and-a-half brutal years as a Vietnam prisoner of war, two terms in the House and six terms in the Senate.He had been undergoing treatment since July 2017 for glioblastoma, an aggressive form of brain cancer. It is the same form of cancer that took the life of another Senate stalwart, the late Massachusetts Sen. Ted Kennedy, in 2009. He passed the way he lived, on his own terms. McCain initially kept a busy work schedule after his diagnosis. In July 2017, weeks after announcing that he had cancer, McCain made a dramatic appearance on the Senate floor to vote against a Republican plan to repeal the Affordable Care Act. His no 8
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