Republican Arizona Senator John McCain has died at the age of 81. The senator and two-time presidential candidate has been battling a malignant brain tumor for over a year. On Friday, his family announced he was ending his treatment, and he died Saturday afternoon at his home. McCain served as a naval pilot in the Vietnam War, spending five years as a prisoner of war after his plane was shot down in 1967. He spent two years in solitary confinement and twice attempted suicide. He eventually signed a statement he would forever regret: a “confession” admitting to “crimes against the Vietnamese country and people.” This experience made McCain a lifelong opponent of torture. Yet, upon his release and return to the United States, he wrote an article expressing support for President Nixon and the U.S. bombing of Cambodia. After McCain’s election to U.S. Senate in 1987, he consistently promoted war and U.S. military intervention abroad, including in the first Gulf War, Afghanistan and Iraq. In 2008, he ran for president vowing to deploy a surge of U.S. troops to Iraq. McCain was also known for reaching across the aisle and working with Democrats on some key issues. In 1995, he worked with John Kerry, a Vietnam War veteran who had opposed the war, to provide political cover for President Clinton to normalize relations with Vietnam. Last year McCain famously voted “thumbs down” against the repeal of the Affordable Care Act. He also recently opposed CIA Director Gina Haspel’s nomination because of her role in post-9/11 torture. Former Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama will eulogize McCain at his funeral at the National Cathedral on Saturday. CNN has reported McCain did not want President Trump to attend. We’ll have more on McCain’s political legacy after headlines.