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Michael Keaton gets brutally criticised for withering attack against Trump

Ahead of 5 November election, Michael Keaton launched a blistering attack against Trump, appealing to the voters to not cast their ballot for the ex-president.

Jimmy McCain endorses Harris, denounces Trump's Arlington visit as ‘violation’

Lt. Jimmy McCain, the son of the late Republican senator from Arizona, endorsed Kamala Harris and slammed Donald Trump's visit to Arlington Cemetery.

Meghan McCain attacks Hunter Biden and his family, accuses them of ‘cruelty’

The Daily Mail published an op-ed Meghan McCain criticising Hunter Biden and calling him a nepo-baby. Twitter cries hypocrisy.

Thumbs Down: Democrat Senator Kyrsten Sinema evokes 'Maverick' McCain

In a video footage which has been widely shared on social media, Sinema can be seen standing on the House floor, flashing a ‘thumbs down’ when her name was called to vote.

At John McCain’s funeral, daughter Meghan lambasts Trump’s ‘cheap rhetoric’

Senator John McCain’s daughter paid tribute to her father on Saturday with a broadside at President Donald Trump, lambasting the U.S. leader without naming him for using “cheap rhetoric

Trump plays golf course while Washington mourned John McCain

The White House did not answer questions about whether Trump played golf or if he watched the John McCain’s funeral service from afar

At Aretha Franklin’s funeral, a call for respect for black America

Franklin’s civil rights legacy was mentioned often during the eight-hour service, and was tied to her faith and roots in the black church.

Washington lauds John McCain as one of America’s ‘bravest souls’, Trump absent

In John McCain’s absence, will lions of the US Senate be women?

Susan Collins of Maine, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Dianne Feinstein of California and Patty Murray of Washington are all positioned to have enormous influence.

‘He wanted a lifespan like mine’: John McCain’s 106-yr-old mom to be at memorial

She once said her son liked to hold her up as an example of “what he hopes his lifespan will be.”

Trump relents under pressure, lowers White House flag again to honour McCain

Donald Trump and McCain did not get along. The US president’s first response to the senator’s passing was a dry tweet that addressed the late senator’s family, not the departed leader.

Donald Trump rejected statement prepared by aides praising late John McCain: Report

While tributes have poured in highlighting the Arizona Republican’s lifetime of service, Donald Trump issued a single, terse tweet on Saturday that sent his “deepest sympathies and respect” to the bereaved family, without any words for John McCain himself.

John McCain and Donald Trump: The two leaders who never pretended to like each other

It was not just Donald Trump and John McCain’s clashing personalities or vastly dissimilar backgrounds. Their differences were fundamental. Their values dramatically at odds. And their disagreements public and pointed.

John McCain, an unbridled titan of American politics

John McCain lived in the service of his country: first as a US Navy fighter pilot, then as a lawmaker until his death Saturday at age 81, following a brain cancer diagnosis in the summer of 2017.

US war hero, senator, presidential candidate John McCain dies

McCain was elected to the Senate from Arizona six times but twice thwarted in seeking the presidency. McCain returned to the Senate in 2009, determined not to let that defeat define him.

Senator John McCain has discontinued cancer treatment, says family

John McCain, a war hero who represents Arizona in the Senate and ran for president in 2008, last attended office as a senator last year and has since been at home, undergoing treatment for glioblastoma, an aggressive cancer of the brain.

Trump looked like a ‘little wet noodle’ standing besides Vladimir Putin: Arnold Schwarzenegger

“President Trump, I just saw your press conference with President Putin and it was embarrassing. I mean, you stood there like a little wet noodle, like a little fanboy,” Schwarzenegger said in a video on Instagram.

Trump fires aide who joked about war hero John McCain

“Kelly Sadler is no longer employed within the Executive Office of the President,” read a brief statement by deputy White House spokesman Raj Shah.

White House official mocks senator John McCain, says he is ‘dying anyway’

Critics of Donald Trump and his administration say that the White House official might have felt emboldened to make that statement because the US President himself has said some very offensive things about McCain.