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What a Prostate Cancer Diagnosis Like Biden’s Means for Patients

While prognoses for prostate cancer patients were once measured in months, experts say that advances in treatment and diagnosis now improve survival by years.

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Because of recent advances in diagnosing and treating prostate cancer, former President Joe Biden and others who develop metastatic prostate cancer diagnoses are more likely to live longer.
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Train hits pedestrians in Ohio, killing at least two

Emergency crews search the Sandusky river near Miles Newton Bridge for at least one missing person

Two people were killed, police said, and at least one person was missing after pedestrians were struck by a train on Sunday evening in northern Ohio, authorities said.

The incident occurred at around 7pm in Fremont, near Lake Erie between Toledo and Cleveland, WTOL-TV reported.

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© Composite: Breaking news (News) graphic holding image — 2025

© Composite: Breaking news (News) graphic holding image — 2025

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The Who fire drummer Zak Starkey for second time in a month

The band’s drummer since 1996 says there have been ‘weeks of mayhem’ since he was fired then reinstated three days later

The Who’s drummer Zak Starkey has been fired from the band for a second time, just one month after he was fired then quickly reinstated.

In an Instagram post on Monday, the group’s guitarist, Pete Townshend, announced that Starkey was no longer part of the band, just months shy of their farewell tour across North America.

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© Photograph: Tin!y/Alamy

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Trump news at a glance: president faces intensifying criticism over Qatar plane gift

Top Democrat condemns ‘flying grift’ as senior Republicans join chorus of disapproval – key US politics stories from Sunday 18 May at a glance

Donald Trump is coming under increasing pressure for accepting a $400m luxury plane from Qatar as several senior Republicans join the chorus of criticism.

Leading Democratic Chris Murphy on Sunday called it the “definition of corruption”, while even some of Trump’s close allies have been enraged, with some saying it was the opposite of Trump’s promise to drain the swamp and was “a stain on the administration”.

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© Photograph: Kent Nishimura/Reuters

© Photograph: Kent Nishimura/Reuters

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Greg Cannom, Who Made Brad Pitt Old and Marlon Wayans White, Dies at 73

He won five Oscars as a makeup artist on movies in which characters transformed, like “Mrs. Doubtfire,” “White Chicks” and many more.

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Greg Cannom after winning the Academy Award for best makeup for “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” in 2009. He also won four other Oscars.
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