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handout picture released by Iran's Atomic Energy Organization shows the atomic enrichment facilities Natanz nuclear
research center, some 300 kilometers south of capital Tehran.
New intelligence obtained by the United States suggests that
Israel is preparing to strike Iranian nuclear facilities, CNN reports,
citing multiple US officials familiar with the matter.
It’s not clear whether Israeli leaders have made a final decision, CNN adds, citing the officials.
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Creator of ‘Dilbert’ Says He Has the Same Cancer as Biden
Scott
Adams shared the news on his podcast and expressed sympathy for the
former president. “My life expectancy is maybe this summer,” he said.
Scott Adams, the cartoonist who created “Dilbert,”
Scott Adams, the cartoonist who created the comic strip “Dilbert,” said on his podcast
on Monday that he had the same kind of aggressive prostate cancer as
former President Joseph R. Biden Jr., and that it had spread to his
bones. He said he had only months to live.
“My life expectancy is maybe this summer,” he said.
Mr.
Adams, 67, is a supporter of President Trump and has been critical of
Mr. Biden, but on Monday he expressed his sympathy for the former
president.
“I’d like to extend my
respect and compassion and sympathy for the ex-president and his family
because they’re going to be going through an especially tough time,” Mr.
Adams said. “It’s a terrible disease — it’s going to get very painful
for the president.”
It was not clear
when Mr. Adams was diagnosed, but he said that he decided to share the
news after learning that Mr. Biden had the same disease, in part because
he hoped that Mr. Biden’s announcement would draw attention away from
his own. He had kept quiet about it to prolong a sense of normalcy, he
said: “Once you go public, you’re just the dying cancer guy.”
Mr.
Adams said he was also wary of sharing his diagnosis because he wanted
to avoid the kind of negative online attention that Mr. Biden has
received since his office announced the news on Sunday.
“One of the things I’ve been watching is how terrible the public is,” he said, adding that people had been “cruel.”
“There’s no sympathy for Joe Biden for a lot of people,” Mr. Adams said. “It’s hard to watch.”
Mr. Adams created “Dilbert,” which mocks office culture, in 1989, and it was syndicated around the world. In 2023, hundreds of newspapers dropped the cartoon
after Mr. Adams said on his podcast that Black people were “a hate
group” and that white people should “just get the hell away” from them.
On
his podcast at the time, he defended his remarks, saying that “you
should absolutely be racist whenever it’s to your advantage.” He later said his comments were intended as hyperbole.
On Monday, Mr. Trump said he was surprised that Mr. Biden’s diagnosis wasn’t made public earlier, seeming to suggest
without evidence that the former president’s cancer had been covered
up. But Mr. Adams said on his podcast that it was possible for Mr. Biden
to not have been showing symptoms when he received a clean bill of
health from his doctor last year.
Part
of Mr. Adams’ sympathy for Mr. Biden seemed to come from his own lived
experience with the disease, which he called “intolerable.” Mr. Adams
said he had been using a walker for months and was in a constant state
of pain. Apart from recording his podcast, he said, he spends most of
his days sleeping. As a California resident, he indicated that he would
be using aid-in-dying drugs, which are available to the terminally ill in the state.
“I don’t have good days,” he said. “Every day is a nightmare. And evening is even worse.”
