John Mccain

John McCain, a senior member of the Senate committee that oversees the telecom industry, now has cellphone coverage at the family's ranch near Sedona, after a request from his wife, Cindy, early in 2007, the Washington Post reported. Verizon Wireless and AT&T provide the coverage at the ranch, which is in a remote canyon where reception is difficult. McCain is a senior member and former chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee, which oversees the Federal Communications Commission and the telecommunications industry.

While Rick Santorum has vowed to stay in the presidential race despite losing three more primaries to Mitt Romney on Tuesday, the last GOP nominee to seek the White House said Santorum's campaign is now “basically irrelevant.” John McCain, the Arizona senator who lost the election to Barack Obama in 2008, said in an interview with CNN's Soledad O'Brien on Wednesday that “whether Rick Santorum stays in or not, is now basically irrelevant… Mitt...

John McCain may not be a BlackBerry user. But Tuesday, one of his aides was ready to give the Republican presidential nominee credit for one of the technological marvels of the modern age. In a comment that brought to mind the 2000 presidential campaign flap over whether Al Gore had invented the Internet, McCain's senior policy advisor said the candidate was responsible for the BlackBerry. Douglas Holtz-Eakin held up his little device to show reporters in Miami as he sought to explain why McCain was qualified to lead the nation out of its economic morass.

In the latest indication that momentum is nonexistent in the Republican presidential contest, Mitt Romney won a victory in Puerto Rico on Sunday and worked toward another in Illinois on Tuesday, results that would quash Rick Santorum's efforts to build on primary successes last week in Alabama and Mississippi. On Sunday, the candidates were traveling down very different campaign paths. Romney made stops across Illinois, including in conservative areas downstate where Santorum is expected to show strength.

The morning after Pastor Rick Warren interviewed both major presidential candidates at his evangelical church in Orange County, he delivered a Sunday sermon urging his congregation to judge Sens. Barack Obama and John McCain on how their characters would affect their decisions as leaders. "Don't just look at issues, look at character," Warren said to a crowd of nearly 3,000 during one of two morning sermons at Saddleback Church in Lake Forest. "Look at the candidate and say, 'Does he live with integrity, service with humility, share with generosity, or not?

When presumed Republican presidential nominee John McCain turns 72 on Friday, it's likely his Democratic opponents will make sure no one forgets his birthday. But McCain beat them to the punch line Monday night with his own jokes during a return appearance to NBC's "The Tonight Show With Jay Leno." McCain had barely taken his seat when Leno offered him early birthday wishes: "We were going to have a cake, but the fire marshal said 'that many candles?' " The late-night host added that they'd ribbed McCain with "a few jokes" about his age during the campaign.

California, the ATM for politicians nationwide, has spit out cash for Barack Obama at an extraordinary clip. One of every five dollars he has raised in itemized contributions to his campaign has come from the Golden State. At last count, in mid-October, the Democratic presidential nominee had withdrawn $84 million from California, or 20% of his contributions of more than $200 -- the threshold at which campaigns must disclose detailed information about donors.

Race has bedeviled this country from the start, when the Founding Fathers ducked the slavery issue for fear of killing the nation in its cradle. Obviously, much has changed. For one thing, Americans are seriously weighing the prospect of elevating a black man to the White House in November. But as this past week's debate over "the race card" illustrates, there is still no subject in American politics as fraught as the color of a candidate's skin.

The fall of the Kadafi regime is a victory for Libya, the Middle East and the world, said U.S. Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), who had been strong advocates for U.S. military intervention in the months-long conflict. "Americans can be proud of the role our country has played in helping to defeat Kadafi," the senators said in a statement released late Sunday night.  "But we regret that this success was so long in coming due to the failure of the United States to employ the full weight of our airpower.

Reports of the Egyptian government blocking employees of non-governmental organizations, including American citizens and the son of a U.S. Cabinet secretary, from leaving the country drew sharp criticism from Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), who said Thursday that the matter was of "special personal concern. " McCain called on the Egyptian government to cease its "harassment" of the NGOs and warned that the aggressive investigations "could set back the long-standing partnership between the United States and Egypt.

Mitt Romney won the Idaho Republican presidential nominating caucuses, according to The Associated Press. It added to a strong showing on Super Tuesday for Romney, who also notched wins in Virginia, Vermont and his home state of Massachusetts. He was in a tight battle with former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum in Ohio, the most sought-after state of the night. Santorum also made a strong showing, winning in Tennessee, Oklahoma and North Dakota. Each of the four GOP candidates had spent some time campaigning in Idaho, where 32 delegates are at stake.

Rick Santorum has won the Oklahoma primary, according to an Associated Press projection, giving him a much-needed statewide triumph on Super Tuesday in a dark-red Republican state. The projection came after Santorum was also declared the victor in Tennessee. The former Pennsylvania senator has now won six nominating contests. Forty-three delegates were up for grabs in the Sooner State today, making it the fifth-largest cache up for grabs on Super Tuesday. Of that total, 25 will be awarded on a proportional basis to all candidates with more than 15% of the statewide vote.

Republican Sen. John McCain said the United States should lead a military air assault on government forces in Syria, arguing the Obama administration's continued efforts at diplomacy and sanctions against the Assad regime are "starting to look more like a hope than strategy. " The influential GOP senator becomes the highest ranking member of Congress to call directly for U.S.-led airstrikes to support the Syrian Free Army and other opposition sources battling President Bashar al-Assad's military attacks on civilians.

As Republicans wage a sharply divisive presidential nominating contest, HBO is preparing to release a television film on the 2008 ascent of then-Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin that seems sure to reopen the wounds of that lost campaign and reignite controversy over Palin's fitness for office and the wisdom of putting her on the ticket. "Game Change," based on the 2010 book of the same name by two journalists, is not due to premiere on the pay-cable channel until March 10, but already on Friday Palin's supporters were hitting back at its depiction of her as woefully unprepared to be a national candidate or be a heartbeat away from the presidency.

Rick Santorum won the Colorado GOP presidential preference straw poll, according to the Colorado Republican Party. The victory means a trifecta tonight for the former Pennsylvania senator, who also won in Minnesota and Missouri. It is a significant defeat for front-runner Mitt Romney, who took 60% of the vote in the Colorado's 2008 nominating contest. John McCain , the eventual nominee, won just 18%. PHOTOS: Campaign 2012 highlights The results were announced late Tuesday on CNN by Colorado Republican Party Chairman Ryan Call.

Four years ago, Mitt Romney lost the Florida presidential primary to John McCain by just 5  percentage points. Exactly nine days later, Romney dropped out of the GOP race. This time around, Romney is expected to win Florida, probably by substantially more than McCain did. But Romney's defeated rivals aren't going anywhere. Newt Gingrich has vowed to press on to the Republican National Convention at the end of August. Rick Santorum and Ron Paul are already campaigning in states that hold caucuses next month.

It was a bittersweet homecoming of sorts when John McCain returned to this picturesque town on Wednesday. Peterborough was the site of one of his very first presidential campaign rallies in his unsuccessful 2000 bid to be the GOP presidential nominee, and the site of one of the last before he lost the 2008 general election to President Obama. McCain returned to endorse and campaign with Mitt Romney, with whom he fought a fierce primary battle four years ago, and who is a front-runner to win this year's Republican nomination.

John McCain, the Republican presidential nominee in 2008 and a two-time winner of the New Hampshire primary, plans to endorse Mitt Romney on Wednesday in the nation's first primary state, sources close to the Arizona senator confirm. The expected backing of the Arizona senator would lend more establishment support to Romney's campaign and potentially add to the sense of momentum following his ultra-narrow, eight-vote victory in the Iowa caucuses Tuesday. McCain had said last year that he would follow in the tradition of past Republican nominees and not back one of the candidates in the contested primary fight.

President Obama is spending the day in Las Vegas and Colorado trying to sell his vision for America's energy future, but he's going to have to work to overshadow the buzz around his personal clash with the Arizona governor the day before. On Thursday, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) came to the defense of Gov. Jan. Brewer in a conversation with Fox Business Network, where he suggested that President Obama can be a little abrasive. "Apparently Bobby Jindal, the governor of Louisiana, had a similar exchange with the president," McCain said Thursday morning.

Reports of the Egyptian government blocking employees of non-governmental organizations, including American citizens and the son of a U.S. Cabinet secretary, from leaving the country drew sharp criticism from Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), who said Thursday that the matter was of "special personal concern. " McCain called on the Egyptian government to cease its "harassment" of the NGOs and warned that the aggressive investigations "could set back the long-standing partnership between the United States and Egypt.