METASTASIS Former President Joe Biden has been diagnosed with an “aggressive”  form of prostate cancer that has already spread to his bones, his office revealed yesterday.

  “While this represents a more aggressive form of the disease, the cancer appears to be hormone-sensitive which allows for effective management,” the statement from Biden’s office said. “The president and his family are reviewing treatment options with his physicians.” Generally when prostate cancer has spread to the bones it can’t be cured but the patient can still live for years beyond diagnosis.

  Biden left office in January at age 82, the oldest serving president. His cancer diagnosis comes just as a new book dissects how his deteriorating intellect was covered up by staff during his last years in the White House.

  President Trump, who bashes, blames, and denounces Biden nearly every day, issued a statement saying, “Melania and I are saddened to hear about Joe Biden’s recent medical diagnosis.” 

STORMY WEATHER: At least 28 people are dead after violent storms and tornadoes struck the Midwest and South over the weekend.

  Nineteen people died in Kentucky. “I’ve now been governor for at least 14 federally declared disasters, 13 of them weather. And this is one of the worst,” said Gov. Andy Beshear.

A LITTLE SALT ON THAT: President Trump’s tax and immigration bill passed the House Budget Committee after an internal Republican fight with their own fiscal conservatives. The four budget conservatives voted merely “present,” allowing the bill to pass through the committee.

  Speaker Mike Johnson says he wants to get the President’s “Big Beautiful Bill” passed by Memorial Day. As written for the moment, it would end taxes on tips, overtime wages, and auto-loan interest while spending hundreds of billions of dollars on immigration enforcement, defense, and other Trump priorities.

  The spending plan would still raise the federal deficit. And there is a continuing fight about raising the deduction on state and local taxes … the SALT deduction … from $10,000 to $30,000. Representatives in high tax states say even a $30,000 deduction is not high enough.

“EAT IT”: Following Walmart’s announcement that the company will have to raise retail prices because of President Trump’s tariffs, the President posted over the weekend that Walmart should “EAT THE TARIFFS.” 

  Trump and his economic advisers have fostered the fiction that importers and retailers can absorb the cost of his tariffs will the treasury hauls in billions of dollars and retail customers feel no pain.

  “Walmart should STOP trying to blame Tariffs as the reason for raising prices throughout the chain,” Trump posted on his Truth Social. He said, “Between Walmart and China they should, as is said, “EAT THE TARIFFS,” and not charge valued customers ANYTHING. I’ll be watching, and so will your customers!!!”

BEFORE THE MAST:  A sailor and a naval cadet were killed and 22 injured Saturday evening when the Mexican Navy’s three-masted training ship crashed into the Brooklyn Bridge. Half of the injured were in critical condition.

  As many as 277 people were on board at the time. Video shows the ship at twilight drifting backwards under the bridge, snapping off upper sections of the masts. It continued under the bridge with the stern striking the strand at Brooklyn Bridge Park where hundreds of people were watching.

  New York Mayor Eric Adams said the ship, which had sails raised, had lost engine power. The stately three-masted barque Cuauhtémoc is used to train seamen, captains, and officers at Mexico’s Heroic Naval Military School. The 300-foot steel-hulled ship was launched in 1982.

NIHILISTIC:  A 25-tear-old man died Saturday in the explosion he set off outside a fertility clinic in Palm Springs, California. Four other people were slightly injured.

  The FBI calls the attack an act of domestic terrorism.

  The explosion shattered windows in homes and businesses in the area. Authorities said  Guy Edward Bartkus of Twenty-Nine Palms, California is believed to have targeted the clinic and that he had “nihilistic ideations.” His exact motive has not been explained.

THE GRADUATE: A student at New York University’s Gallatin School of liberal arts was denied his diploma Saturday after delivering an unapproved speech supporting Palestine. In his 2 1/2 minute speech, Logan Rozos said, “The only thing that is appropriate to say in this time and to a group this large is a recognition of the atrocities currently happening in Palestine.” 

  Students cheered and the administration did not. They say they are considering further disciplinarity action after denying Rozos his diploma. 

  Rozos further said that, “The genocide currently occurring is supported politically and militarily by the United States, is paid for by our tax dollars and has been livestreamed to our phones for the last 18 months.” 

THE WAR ROOM: Russia yesterday hit Ukraine with one of its biggest drone barrages of its war just a day before President Trump and Russia’s Vladimir Putin are expected to talk about ending the fighting.

  Although Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky has said he would agree to a ceasefire, Putin has demanded conditions that are unacceptable to Ukraine. Officials in Ukraine say that Putin’s continued attacks are proof that he does not intend to end the war.

THE SPIN RACK:  A train struck and killed two women walking on a railroad bridge last night in Fremont, Ohio. A child is missing after the accident. A 1 year old child was recovered from the river below and a 5 year old is missing.   

BELOW THE FOLD: Rocker Bruce Springsteen performing in England. Carried on with his campaign against the Trump administration telling his audience, “Things are happening right now that are altering the very nature of our country’s democracy, and they’re too important to ignore.”

  Trump has called Springsteen an “obnoxious jerk ” and a  “dried out ‘prune’ of a rocker.” 

  Speaking of dried out prunes …. 

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