Fox News contributor and syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer says he has "only a few weeks to live" because of an aggressive form of cancer.
He disclosed his doctors' prognosis in a letter released Friday to colleagues, friends and viewers.
Krauthammer wrote that he underwent surgery in August to remove a cancerous tumor in his abdomen. While it was thought to be successful, he said there were complications that he was overcoming. However, he wrote, recent tests revealed the cancer has returned and is "spreading rapidly."
The columnist says he will "leave this life with no regrets." The 68-year-old, who was paralyzed below the neck in a diving accident, graduated from Harvard Medical School in 1975 and practiced psychiatry. He later developed a career as a Pulitzer Prize-winning author and commentator.
First-time hosts look forward to Tonys
Josh Groban and Sara Bareilles face a daunting task at Sunday's Tony Awards — anchor the telecast as first-time hosts, show off Broadway's season without a clear juggernaut like "Hamilton" and articulate the theater community's embrace of the #MeToo movement while not forgetting the nominees. The pop stars, who have both recently fallen into Broadway's orbit, face their biggest audience yet and a careful political balancing act when they co-host the CBS telecast from Radio City Music Hall. A-list talent expected to be on hand this year includes Robert De Niro, Claire Danes, Billy Joel, Carey Mulligan, Jim Parsons and Kerry Washington, who this fall will star in the Broadway premiere of "American Son." Bruce Springsteen will perform live and will receive a Special Tony Award for his one-man show "Springsteen on Broadway."
dame Catherine: Queen Elizabeth this week honored an activist and former sex worker by awarding her the title of "dame." Catherine Healy, 62, a founder of the New Zealand Prostitutes Collective, was instrumental in helping her country become the first to decriminalize prostitution in 2003. After 30 years of activism, the queen recognized her on Monday with a New Zealand Order of Merit "for services to the rights of sex workers.".
down on the ranch: Matt Lauer, the former "Today" show co-host who lost his job over sexual misconduct allegations, will be allowed to keep his ranch in New Zealand after a government agency said Friday it did not have sufficient evidence he had breached a good-character test for foreign property buyers. But a spokeswoman for the Overseas Investment Office, which started an investigation after Lauer's firing in November into his fitness to hold the lease of the 16,000-acre ranch, said it would continue to "monitor the matter."
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