News
Joe Biden says he wouldn’t have run for second term in 2024 if he knew he had cancer
- Newsrooms
- 6
- Last 3 hours
- 4 reports
- Momentum
- Up 100%
2 in the 3 before
Emerging
Reports per hour, last 24 hours
How the coverage splits
Where it’s heading
Still spreading. Likely 7 to 12 newsrooms by 11:28am AEDT. Calls like this were right 92% of the time. How we knowAgainst the past week
More newsrooms than 91% of the past week’s 3841 stories, and number 128 of 1635 in News.
1File photo: Joe Biden
The 46th president announced in May 2025 that he had been diagnosed with stage 4 prostate cancer that had spread to his bones.
The Independent didn’t include a summary, so this is New York Post’s, from its report on the same story.3
Background: Joe Biden
Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. is an American retired politician who was the 46th president of the United States from 2021 to 2025. A member of the Democratic Party, he represented Delaware in the United States Senate from 1973 to 2009 and also served as the 47th vice president under President Barack Obama from 2009 to 2017.4
The story so far
6 newsroomsEmerging- Reports
- 6
- Newsrooms and sources
- 6
- Last 3 hours
- 4
Emerging: new in the last few hours and still picking up reports (4 in the last three hours, 2 in the three before).
First with it: New York Post, 49 min before anyone else.
Reported by 6 newsrooms.
The numbers behind it
How it spread, where it’s heading and where the coverage is from
Where the coverage is from
How it spread
Newsrooms reporting it, each counted at its first report.
- Newsrooms
- 6
- Over
- 2.5 hr
- To three newsrooms
- 1.5 hr
| Time | Newsroom | Total |
|---|---|---|
| 1:40am AEDT | New York Post | 1 |
| 2:29am AEDT | Politico | 2 |
| 3:10am AEDT | The Washington Times | 3 |
| 3:36am AEDT | Time | 4 |
| 3:57am AEDT | The Independent | 5 |
| 4:09am AEDT | The Globe and Mail | 6 |
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