Amie Parnes

2 weeks ago | thehill.com | Nathaniel Weixel |Amie Parnes

Former President Biden’s aggressive prostate cancer diagnosis is raising questions about whether warning signs could have been caught earlier, and if the current screening recommendations should be changed. Prostate cancer is one of the most common types of cancer in older men. One in every eight men will be diagnosed in his lifetime. According to the American Cancer Society, prostate cancer kills 35,000 a year, meaning a man dies from prostate cancer every 15 minutes.

2 weeks ago | buzzfeed.com | Amie Parnes

What followed was an avalanche of text messages, not just that evening but in the days and weeks that followed — from morning until we fell asleep every night. For the first time since I’d known him, his flaws began to come into view. He told me about a dark time in his life a couple of years earlier and how stress had led to a drug addiction and then time in rehab. And while he had been in recovery for a while, he continued to cling tightly to near-daily Narcotics Anonymous meetings for support.

2 weeks ago | thehill.com | Julia Manchester |Amie Parnes

Former President Biden’s political allies and rivals alike sent a flood of well-wishes and tributes to the former president on Sunday following news of his cancer diagnosis, praising him as “a fighter.”The news of Biden’s health challenges came amid renewed scrutiny over his decision to initially run for a second term despite questions about his mental acuity. Several Democrats over the past week went further than in the past by saying that he should have dropped out sooner.

2 weeks ago | thehill.com | Amie Parnes

Democrats are tired of Joe Biden saying he would have won. What they want, they say, is for the former president to admit to his part in the party’s 2024 loss to Donald Trump. Democratic strategists, operatives and donors this week in conversations and text exchanges all reiterated the same thing: They want Biden to take responsibility for former Vice President Kamala Harris’s defeat to the new president. They also say he never should have run for a second term in the first place.

3 weeks ago | thehill.com | Amie Parnes

President Trump in recent weeks has seen an uptick of unlikely visitors at the White House and his Florida home at Mar-a-Lago: Democrats. The latest example came last week when Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser appeared in the Oval Office, all but discarding the hard-edged approach she took with Trump during his first administration. Bowser was the second prominent Democrat in the room in a month. Michigan Gov.