Here’s what you need to know:Mourning a maverick• Senator John McCain will lie in state this week in the Arizona State Capitol and later in the U.S. Capitol, as part of nearly a week of services in his honor. There will be a memorial service for Mr. McCain, who died on Saturday at the age of 81, at the Washington National Cathedral. On Sunday, leaders of both political parties and foreign dignitaries praised Mr. McCain, a former prisoner of war in Vietnam who represented Arizona in Congress for decades. A Republican, he was known for defying his party’s leaders, including President Trump, who was notably absent from the tributes. Doug Ducey of Arizona said that he would not appoint a replacement for Mr. McCain until after the senator was laid to rest.

Source: New York Times August 27, 2018 09:43 UTC