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Man feels death sentence hangs over him due to MGUS diagnosis

Dear Dr. Roach: After a routine blood test raised suspicions, my husband was diagnosed with monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance (MGUS). At first, we thought this wasn’t a big deal, but further tests indicate that he’s in the “high risk” category, although he doesn’t have symptoms. The hematologist/oncologist has indicated that he has a 50% chance of developing a blood cancer called multiple myeloma in 20 years. My husband is very upset and feels that a death sentence is hanging over him. The oncologist says he has to be monitored every three months. I’ve ...

Horoscope: Wednesday, June 3

What you hold in holy esteem will nourish your spirit, fill you with awe and prove worthy of your devotion in more practical ways, too. Aries (March 21-April 19) Just because something works on paper doesn’t mean it will in real life. The logical solutions won’t be enough to fix what goes wrong. The key ingredients for success today: creativity, vision, empathy and patience. Taurus (April 20-May 20) People make choices that don’t seem quite right to you. Of course, you don’t have full access to their reasons, their history or what they need to learn for themselves. You still ...

Hezbollah seeks impunity; Dems say ‘Sure!’

Democratic Sen. Chris Van Hollen recently claimed that the American Israel Public Affairs Committee was “un-American,” an announcement that surely surprised the hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of American citizens who have supported AIPAC, whose forebears and family members served in America’s military and fought for their country in America’s wars. Van Hollen is prominent among Democratic politicians scrambling to denounce Israel more loudly and more mindlessly than their potential rivals. This includes parroting the obligatory nonsense that, in defending itself from ...

Talarico’s nonbinary campaign

James Talarico has decided that God isn’t nonbinary after all. Anyone who has relied on the Texas senatorial candidate for theological guidance might be experiencing whiplash. Talarico is trying to clean up a series of idiotic statements, including about God’s supposed nonconforming gender, that are vulnerabilities ahead of a competitive race against the scandal-plagued Republican candidate, Ken Paxton. Once upon a time, Talarico, a former Presbyterian seminarian, wanted to make the Bible into a tool of radical gender ideology. It was during a 2021 debate in the Texas ...

It’s too late to sit out AI revolution

We have some bad news for anyone still intent on sitting out the AI revolution: You’re too late. If you’re like most Americans today, you already rely on artificial intelligence for myriad activities and services without even necessarily knowing it. Like any technological revolution, this one has brought societal upheaval with it. That can be seen in public meetings throughout Missouri and the U.S., where citizens are pushing back against construction of the large-scale data centers AI needs to function. Some of this feels like classic NIMBY (Not In My Back Yard), but it would be ...

Iran stops talking to mediators

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Iran stopped communicating with mediators about extending a ceasefire in the war with the U.S. and Israel, two semiofficial Iranian news agencies reported Tuesday, but President Donald Trump disputed the claim and said talks were continuing. The reports by the ...