John Mccain

Netflix, Hulu, Apple: Who's got what you want to watch tonight? That question became more complicated Thursday as online-video viewers got another suitor: The Google-owned video site YouTube said it will ask consumers to pay a monthly subscription for some of the videos on its site. With the announcement of its new service, Google is throwing its hat into a crowded market of video providers all trying to answer consumers' demands to give them want to see, when they want to see it. Americans are increasingly watching video through...

WASHINGTON — The White House says President Barack Obama plans to meet with Republican Sen. John McCain on Wednesday to discuss ongoing efforts to pass an overhaul of immigration laws and budget issues. McCain, of Arizona, is one of the key Republicans in a bipartisan group of eight senators who drafted broad immigration legislation that would include a path to citizenship for immigrants illegally in the United States. The Senate Judiciary Committee has been assembling the bill as its key sponsors attempt to fend off...

He's only been in Washington since January, but Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) is the subject of rampant speculation that he will be a presidential candidate in 2016, particularly after his recent visit to the early-primary state of South Carolina. But complicating the calculus is that Cruz, 42, was born in Canada, raising questions about whether he is even eligible to seek the presidency. Cruz spoke at a state Republican fundraiser Friday and was warmly received by top donors and activists as he railed against the Obama...

A frustrated President Obama said Monday that the Republican focus on the administration's response to last year's fatal attacks in Benghazi, Libya, is a "sideshow" with obvious partisan motives. "There's no ‘there' there," Obama said in response to the ongoing criticism of the administration's initial public response to the assault. Last week, edited versions surfaced of the administration's talking points for congressional leaders and other officials shortly after the attacks, which killed four...

Correction: An earlier version of this editorial incorrectly described Sen. John McCain as representing Nevada. He represents Arizona. The following version has been updated. A COWARDLY minority of senators blocked a gun background-check proposal on Wednesday , in one vote betraying both the will of the American people and the charge voters gave them to work in their interest. But at least those senators avoided a rebuke from the National Rifle Association.

Last night's debate, a town-hall discussion dominated by economic questions, made it clear that John McCain's effort to change the campaign's focus to the culture wars of the 1960s is not going to work. Voters want candidates to talk about problems and how to solve them, especially the enormous ones confronting us now. And so it was that while McCain took shots at Barack Obama -- about his "cronies and his friends" at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, about his tax proposals, about his health-care plan -- he could not drag the debate into...

Foreign policy has slipped to the periphery of presidential politics, displaced by a nonexistent recession as the voters' preoccupation. Come autumn, however, Iraq and Iran may be central subjects, Iraq as a bigger problem for the Democratic nominee than for John McCain and Iran as a problem for McCain. And the presidency may be won by the candidate who embraces a modest conception of that office. Regarding Iraq, Democrats have won a retrospective argument: Most Americans regret the invasion and execrate the bungled aftermath.

In his 2002 book, "Worth the Fighting For," John McCain offered this confession -- an acknowledgment of a restless mind: "Although I seem to tolerate introspection better the older I am, there are still too many claims on my attention to permit more than the briefest excursions down the path of self-awareness. When I am no longer busy with politics, and with my own ambitions, I hope to have more time to examine what I have done and failed to do with my career, and why. " A telling observation, or so it seems, and...

Sen. John McCain spent yesterday visiting supporters at his headquarters in Phoenix before embarking on a one-week tour aimed at highlighting opportunities for people of all constituencies. He will address the National Council of La Raza today, have breakfast with Latino small-business owners in Albuquerque on Tuesday and speak at the NAACP convention in Cincinnati on Wednesday. SOURCE: Staff writer Juliet Eilperin AUG. 25-28 Democratic National Convention SEPT. 1-4 Republican National Convention

John McCain tested Missouri's long-standing reputation as a bellwether state yesterday as he battled to overcome a wave of economic uncertainty that drove women, younger people, and black and Hispanic voters to Barack Obama. The Show-Me State has voted for the presidential loser only once in about the past 100 years, choosing Adlai Stevenson, another Democrat from Illinois, in 1956. President Bush carried Missouri in 2004, winning 54 percent of the women's vote. But his plummeting popularity and the faltering economy...

President Obama's supporters are discovering that winning a national election is easier than winning over Congress. Organizing for Action , an advocacy group born from the remnants of Obama's victorious 2012 reelection campaign, has struggled in its attempts to help the president push through legislation on the economy, guns and other issues central to his second-term agenda. The fledgling nonprofit group has spent its first four months staging rallies and generating local news coverage in an...

WASHINGTON — Guest lineups for the Sunday TV news shows: ABC's "This Week" — Sens. John McCain, R-Ariz., and Jack Reed, D-R.I. ___ NBC's "Meet the Press" — Reps. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., and Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill.; Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif.; former diplomat Thomas Pickering, who helped lead the State Department's review of the attack against the U.S. in Benghazi, Libya. ___ CBS' "Face the Nation" — Pickering; former Defense Secretary Robert Gates; Sens.

HIGHLIGHTS Saturday night, original movie "Dangerous Intuition" (Lifetime at 8) shows a woman moving from "devastated" to "rage" when she thinks the woman who stole her husband is out to hurt her daughter. Kristen Wiig hosts "Saturday Night Live" (NBC at 11:30) with musical guest Vampire Weekend. Sunday talk shows: "Platts Energy Week" (WUSA at 7:30 a.m.) interviews EEI's Tom Kuhn and EPRI's Matt Olearcyzk; "This Week in Defense News" (WUSA at 8) has Lt. Gen. Willie J. Williams and Lt. Gen. Michael...

WASHINGTON — A buttoned-down Prince Harry joined Michelle Obama in honoring military families Thursday and toured an exhibition in Congress about land-mines, opening a weeklong U.S. visit devoted to the wounded victims of war. Shrieking onlookers gave him the pop-star treatment, but he was all royal business. The British soldier-prince had one of America's most storied wounded warriors, the wisecracking Sen. John McCain, at his side as he viewed a display of land-mine...

Netflix, Hulu, Apple: Who's got what you want to watch tonight? That question became more complicated Thursday as online-video viewers got another suitor: The Google-owned video site YouTube said it will ask consumers to pay a monthly subscription for some of the videos on its site. With the announcement of its new service, Google is throwing its hat into a crowded market of video providers all trying to answer consumers' demands to give them want to see, when they want to see it. Americans are increasingly...

He's only been in Washington since January, but Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) is the subject of rampant speculation that he will be a presidential candidate in 2016, particularly after his recent visit to the early-primary state of South Carolina. But complicating the calculus is that Cruz, 42, was born in Canada, raising questions about whether he is even eligible to seek the presidency. Cruz spoke at a state Republican fundraiser Friday and was warmly received by top donors and activists as he railed against the...

John McCain lavished attention on Pennsylvania in the closing days of Campaign 2008. It paid off, but not enough. Voters who said they made up their minds in recent days went for the Republican nominee, according to network exit polls. But McCain's failure to rack up enormous margins in the state's rural center -- the only real recipe for GOP success here, and for a come-from-behind McCain win in the electoral college -- ultimately cost him Pennsylvania's 21 electoral votes. The senator from Arizona was damaged by large...

HIGHLIGHTS Saturday night, "Cops" (Fox at 8) wraps up Season 25 as police in Las Vegas struggle with suspects. The two musicals on "Smash" (NBC at 8), "Bombshell" and "Hit List," wind up being connected in a surprising way. Zach Galifianakis hosts "Saturday Night Live" (NBC at 11:30), with musical guest Of Monsters and Men. Sunday talk shows: "Platts Energy Week" (WUSA at 7:30 a.m.) interviews Continental Resources' Rick Bott and Rep. John Shimkus (R-Ill.)