John McCain Diagnosed With Brain Cancer

By DONNA CASSATA  Associated Press
 
 
WASHINGTON (AP) _ Arizona Sen. John McCain, the 2008 Republican presidential nominee with a well-known maverick streak that often vexed his GOP colleagues, has been diagnosed with a brain tumor, his office said in a statement Wednesday.
The 80-year-old lawmaker has glioblastoma, an aggressive cancer, according to doctors at the Mayo Clinic in Phoenix where McCain had a blood clot removed from above his left eye last Friday. The senator and hi