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Joe Biden's Prostate Cancer Sparks Wild Conspiracies, Even as Trump and Obama Offer Well-Wishes

Joe Biden, 82, has been diagnosed with aggressive prostate cancer, prompting support from Trump and Obama—but also fuelling conspiracy theories online. Biden says he's ready to fight, while critics question the timing and transparency of the announcement.

International Business Times UK · May 20, 2025

Former Obama Adviser Rebukes Democrats' 'Massive Cover-Up' After Book Reveals Biden's Decline: 'A Crime Against This Republic'

Former Obama adviser Van Jones condemned the Democratic Party for what he called a "massive cover-up" of former President Joe Biden's cognitive decline

Latin Times · May 19, 2025

Biden Thanks Outpouring Of Support After Cancer Diagnosis: 'We Are Strongest In The Broken Places'

Former President Joe Biden thanked the outpouring of support received after being diagnosed with an aggressive form of prostate cancer: "Like so many of you, Jill and I have learned that we are strongest in the broken places. "

Latin Times · May 19, 2025

MAGA in meltdown as Trump fans try to identify who controlled Biden’s ‘autopen’

Biden’s alleged use of an autopen has become an obsession on the right, with Rep. James Comer lashing out on Fox News

The Independent UK · May 17, 2025

Bill Maher slams Trump for planning to accept plane as gift from Qatari royals

‘You know, when you travel, you like to leave with a souvenir, right? So he got a $400 million plane,’ Maher says of Trump’s Middle East trip

The Independent UK · May 17, 2025

‘Very disturbing’: Trump receipt of overseas gifts unprecedented, experts warn

White House remakes foreign policy under pay-for-access code that critics say could violate US constitution

The Guardian - US · May 17, 2025

H-bomb creator Richard Garwin was a giant in science, technology and policy

Richard Garwin, who died on May 13, 2025, at the age of 97, was sometimes called “the most influential scientist you’ve never heard of.” He got his Ph.D. in physics at 21 under Enrico Fermi – a Nobel Prize winner and friend of Einstein’s – who called Garwin “the only…

The Conversation · May 16, 2025

Richard Branson: 'Why I won't leave my billions to my children'

The entrepreneur tells Michael Odell about inheritance, his new London hotel, dancing on the tables at 74 and why he has stopped afternoon drinking

Evening Standard · May 15, 2025

Lions, horses and things of value: Other gifts given to US presidents as Trump faces heat over $400m jet

Poised to accept a $400 million Qatari jet, Donald Trump isn’t the only U.S. president who has been sent gifts from foreign leaders, writes James Liddell

The Independent UK · May 14, 2025

Trump Declares the 'Neocon' Era Over

The president’s speech in Saudi Arabia promised a new course for U.S. policy in the Middle East. Can he deliver?

Reason · May 14, 2025