in july as disputed election he now faces the difficult task of uniting the country after an election that the opposition says was rigged. and in italy the standoff over a monitoring ship triggers a criminal investigation into the country s far right interior minister prosecutors are looking into charges of abuse of office kidnapping and illegal arrest. omarion evanston it s good to have you with us. tributes are pouring in for a u.s. senator john mccain who died overnight at the age of eighty one mccain had been battling an aggressive form of brain cancer since july of last year on friday his family had announced he d discontinued any further treatment after a long military and political career mccain passed away at his ranch in arizona