Former First Lady Jill Biden revealed that former President Joe Biden will live with prostate cancer for the remainder of his life, sharing new details about his Stage 4 diagnosis and ongoing treatment.

Speaking to Fox News, Mrs. Biden recalled noticing early warning signs during his presidency, noting that her husband would frequently wake up up to seven times a night to use the restroom.

“I never thought it was prostate cancer. I really never thought about that,” Mrs. Biden said. “The issue is that it’s Stage 4 and it’s in his bones. So that takes it to a whole different level. I mean, he will live with cancer for the rest of his life, which means he’s on heavy-duty medication.”

The former first lady disclosed that the former president underwent a grueling five-week course of radiation therapy, which required constant travel between their family home in Delaware and Philadelphia.

“You know, it’s exhausting,” she said. “He still keeps his schedule, but he slows down. I think Stage 4 cancer at 83, combined with the medication he’s on, just makes life a little bit harder these days.”

When asked how she is managing her husband’s health crisis, Mrs. Biden described stepping into a primary caregiver role. “I’m the one who makes sure he takes the right prescription. I’m the one who talks to the doctors. I’m the one who makes the appointments. I’m the one who makes sure he eats properly,” she said.

Beyond the health update, the former first lady also touched on the political turmoil that marked the end of her husband’s re-election campaign. She admitted feeling “hurt” when fellow Democrats—many of whom she considered longtime friends—publicly called for Mr. Biden to drop out of the 2024 presidential race.

The office of the former president first announced in May 2025 that he had been diagnosed with prostate cancer that had metastasized to his bones, a progression that carries a far more serious prognosis than early-stage localized prostate cancer. Mr. Biden completed his radiation treatments in October 2025.

Hillary Clinton says Biden’s re-election bid cost Democrats the 2024 election

Former secretary of state says the winner of a genuine Democratic primary ‘would have beaten Donald Trump’

Joe Biden’s decision to seek a second term was “a terrible mistake” that cost Democrats the presidency and may have permanently damaged his legacy, Hillary Clinton has declared.

Speaking at the 92nd Street Y in Manhattan on Monday, the former US secretary of state and 2016 Democratic nominee said Biden had reneged on a prior commitment to step aside – and that the betrayal of that promise proved catastrophic. “He made a terrible mistake for himself, his legacy, and for the country,” she said.

Clinton argued that had Biden announced in late summer 2023 that he would not run, a genuine Democratic primary would have produced a stronger nominee.

“I believe whoever emerged from that contest, whether it was the vice-president or a governor or a senator or anybody else, would have beaten Donald Trump,” she said, calling the decision to stay in the race “a terrible miscalculation”.

Biden eventually abandoned his re-election bid in July 2024 following a disastrous debate performance against Trump, during which his wife Jill Biden recently revealed that she believed he was having a stroke while watching him. Biden then went on to hand over the nomination to his vice-president, Kamala Harris, in August, who went on to lose the general election to Trump a few months later.

Still, Clinton’s claim that any Democrat would have beaten Trump deserves scrutiny. A 2025 report from the left-leaning Way to Win into the 2024 defeat identified three core problems: voters wanted economic change; Republicans held a structural media advantage; and leftwing movements on Gaza, racial justice and immigration were badly out of alignment with the party. A controversial, and belated, internal review of the Democrats’ losses identified a slew of mistakes, describing a party that had lost ground at every level of government for nearly two decades.

In her remarks on Monday, Clinton explained that “once [Biden] didn’t move and did not, you know, admit that he had said he was going to step aside, and then decided not to, and held on for as long as he did, we were in a terrible dilemma.”

Former President Joe Biden Sues Department of Justice to Block Release of Private Audio Recordings

WASHINGTON — Former U.S. President Joe Biden has filed a lawsuit to block the public release of audio recordings and transcripts of private conversations with his ghostwriter, court documents showed.

The lawsuit, filed Sunday in federal court in Washington, D.C., seeks to stop the Department of Justice (DOJ) from turning over the materials to the House Judiciary Committee and the conservative think tank Heritage Foundation, which the agency had planned to do by June 15.

The records in question stem from a 2016–2017 period and were utilized during Special Counsel Robert Hur’s 2023 investigation into Mr. Biden’s handling of classified documents. While Mr. Hur ultimately declined to bring criminal charges, the Heritage Foundation sought access to the records shortly after the probe concluded.

According to the lawsuit, the DOJ had previously resisted the think tank’s Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests in 2024, maintaining that the records were exempt from disclosure. However, that stance shifted following the inauguration of President Donald Trump.

The DOJ subsequently announced it would release the files to satisfy a records request from the House Judiciary Committee—a move Mr. Biden’s legal team argues is a pretext designed to circumvent federal laws that would otherwise protect the materials from disclosure.

The complaint asks the court to declare the committee’s request invalid and pretextual, and seeks a permanent injunction to block the transfer of the records.

The audio recordings were captured at Mr. Biden’s private residence as part of the process for his 2017 memoir, “Promise Me, Dad: A Year of Hope, Hardship, and Purpose.” The book chronicled his deliberations over a potential presidential run while his eldest son, Beau, was battling terminal brain cancer.

Earlier this month, Mr. Biden sought to intervene in an ongoing lawsuit between the Heritage Foundation and the DOJ regarding the materials. A federal judge granted him permission to join the case last week, but ruled he could not pursue claims related to the House Judiciary Committee’s specific request, according to court filings.

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