*WASHINGTON – Republican US Senator John McCain, a former prisoner of warin Vietnam who ran unsuccessfully for president as a self-styled maverickRepublican in 2008 and became a prominent critic of President Donald Trump,died on Saturday, his office said. He was 81.*

McCain, a US senator from Arizona for over three decades, had been battlingglioblastoma — an aggressive brain cancer, discovered by his doctors inJuly 2017 — and had not been at the US Capitol in 2018. He also had surgeryfor an intestinal infection in April of this year.

A statement from his office said: “Senator John Sidney McCain III died at4:28 PM on August 25, 2018. With the senator when he passed were his wifeCindy and their family. At his death, he had served the United States ofAmerica faithfully for sixty years.”