Joe the Plumber, who questioned Obama on his tax plans, dead at 49
Samuel "Joe" Wurzelbacher, who became known as "Joe the Plumber" during the 2008 presidential race, died Sunday.
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Samuel "Joe" Wurzelbacher, who became known as "Joe the Plumber" during the 2008 presidential race, died Sunday.
Sen. Amy Klobuchar was rebuked Monday by the daughter of the late Sen. John McCain after the presidential hopeful referenced her father while campaigning in Iowa over the weekend.
Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar defended John McCain during a town hall in Rye, New Hampshire Saturday morning.
Recently defeated Republican congressman from Minnesota's 2nd Congressional District is blaming the Democratic House takeover on the late Sen. John McCain's vote against repealing the Affordable Care Act.
John McCain's widow says former Arizona U.S. Sen. Jon Kyl will be named as her deceased husband's replacement in the U.S. Senate.
The private burial Sunday next to Adm. Chuck Larson brings to a close the six-term senator's cross-country farewell after he died of brain cancer Aug. 25 in Arizona.
John McCain's daughter posed her father's legacy as a direct challenge to President Donald Trump in her eulogy.
Late Republican Senator John McCain is getting a presidential farewell, but not from the actual sitting president.
On Friday, McCain will become only the 31st person to lie in state in the US Capitol, a rare honor reserved for government officials and military officers.
The very youngest Baby Boomers are in their mid-50s now, and more than half of today's Americans have no living memory of the 1960s.
Mike Pence's visit to Minnesota is the latest effort by the White House to turn Minnesota from a reliably blue state to a red one.
The celebration of Sen. John McCain's life as a former prisoner of war and maverick politician enters a second day with a church service and a military salute before his casket departs his adopted state of Arizona for the U.S. Capitol.
Family, friends and constituents will gather Wednesday at Arizona's Capitol to pay their respects to Sen. John McCain, the first of two days of services here before he departs the state he has represented since the 1980s.
Researchers at the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine at Virginia Tech are enrolling dogs with glioblastoma into a clinical trial to test the experimental drug.
Glowering in public and near-silent for two days, President Donald Trump relented under pressure by tersely recognizing Sen. John McCain's "service to our country" and re-lowering the White House flag.
It's an honor that's only been allowed 30 times in the last 166 years.
The flags at the U.S. Capitol, meanwhile, remained at half-staff on Monday.
Sen. John McCain's service to his country began more than six decades ago at the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis and will end there in a cemetery overlooking Maryland's Severn River.
The American Legion held a parade at the Minneapolis Convention Center this afternoon.
Former President Barack Obama is paying tribute to Arizona Sen. John McCain following the death of his 2008 presidential rival.
Amy Klobuchar, Minnesota's senior Senator, released a heartfelt statement Saturday night regarding the death of John McCain.
Arizona Sen. John McCain, the war hero who became the GOP's standard-bearer in the 2008 election, has died. He was 81.
A White House official dismissed Sen. John McCain's opposition to President Donald Trump's CIA nominee, saying "it doesn't matter" because "he's dying anyway," two people in the room told The Associated Press.
Republican Sen. John McCain is returning home to Arizona after being hospitalized for the side effects of his brain cancer treatment and likely will miss a crucial vote on the GOP tax package, President Donald Trump said Sunday.
U.S. Sen. John McCain says doctors have given him a "very poor prognosis" as he battles brain cancer.
