Representative McCarthy diagnosed with lung cancer

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Representative Carolyn McCarthy, a gun control advocate elected to Congress after her husband was killed in a mass shooting, said on Monday she has lung cancer. “I look forward to a successful treatment and returning to continue the mission that I’ve started as a member of Congress,” the 69-year-old New York Democrat said in a statement. McCarthy was first elected to the House of Representatives in 1996, three years after her husband was killed in a shooting spree on a Long Island, New York, commuter train. …