By Tal Shalev and Dana Karni, CNN

(CNN) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu quietly underwent treatment for prostate cancer, he said Friday as he publicized the results of his annual medical examination.

It is the first time the longest-serving leader in Israel’s history has acknowledged that he was diagnosed with cancer.

Netanyahu, 76, underwent surgery for an enlarged prostate in December 2024, an operation the Prime Minister’s Office had disclosed publicly at the time. In the latest check-up following the surgery, Netanyahu revealed in a statement on social media that doctors discovered a malignant tumor in his prostate of less than a centimeter.

The Prime Minister’s Office also released two letters from his doctors to accompany the revelation on social media. “This is an early detection of a very small lesions, with no metastases, as all other tests confirmed beyond any doubt,” one letter said.

He does not reveal when the last check was, but an Israeli source familiar with the matter told CNN that the cancer was diagnosed several months ago. Netanyahu began undergoing radiation therapy about two and a half months ago, according to the source, and had recently completed the treatment.

Netanyahu says he made the decision to undergo targeted radiation therapy and “the spot disappeared completely.”

“Thank God, I am healthy,” Netanyahu said on social media. “I had a minor medical issue with my prostate that was completely treated.” He says he delayed the release of his annual medical report – which revealed he had been diagnosed with cancer – by two months so that it wouldn’t be used as propaganda by Iran.

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Happy Friday! It'll be a cool morning with a few areas of dense fog developing along major highways. Overcast skies kick in after lunch and cooler temperatures arrive. Highs rise into the 60s and low 70s. No watches, warnings or advisories to worry about. Marine waters and winds remain calm.

Low pressure develops along the boarder of Nevada and California. This system will drudge up showers and thunderstorms. This brings rain chances up to 50% for most of the area! Expect erratic and fast moving showers to arrive after midday. Any rain amounts will be dismal and impacts should be minimal other than the fair forecast. Skies hold overcast and highs rise into the 50s and low 60s, this is the coolest day of the period.

We hold with a 20% chance of showers Sunday. Some light rain may pop up in the morning before we dry by the evening. Drying conditions arrive Monday through next week, until Wednesday Thursday where 20% chances arrive again. Highs this entire weekend into next week hold in the 60s and low 70s. Winds will need to be monitored each day.

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By Brian Stelter, CNN

(CNN) — In the same way that President Donald Trump’s second term is like any other, this weekend’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner will be unlike any other.

Trump will be attending the gala for the first time as president and speaking before thousands of journalists and politicos — leaving attendees to wonder what he’ll say and how the room will react.

Will the president use a dinner dedicated to the First Amendment to attack journalists and air his well-worn grievances? Or will he deliver the barbs with a lighter touch, perhaps in the joking, back-slapping manner he sometimes adopts around reporters?

A wide range of critics say the soirée risks normalizing Trump’s anti-democratic assaults on the press. Trump’s presence at the event is “a profound contradiction of its purpose,” a petition signed by 250-plus veteran journalists and several media advocacy groups said earlier this week.

But the journalists who invited him, the board of the White House Correspondents’ Association, say they are glad Trump is ending a years-long boycott of the dinner and embracing a tradition that dates back one hundred years. The association has been inviting the sitting president to the dinner ever since President Calvin Coolidge attended in 1924.

Members of the association, which says it exists to “facilitate robust coverage of the presidency,” note that the black-tie function doubles as an award ceremony for the association and a fundraiser for its scholarship program.

This year’s president of the WHCA, Weijia Jiang, senior White House correspondent for CBS News, said “there is no confusion about what this dinner is about.”

“Everyone in attendance has chosen to be there knowing that it is a dinner dedicated to recognizing the importance of the First Amendment,” she told CNN. “Especially as we mark America’s 250th birthday, our decision to gather — as journalists, newsmakers and the president in the same room — is a reminder of what the free press means in this country.”

Jiang will give remarks about the essential role of the press corps, as is customary for the association’s president. Attendees will likely be watching the president’s face carefully for his reactions.

In past years, the association president has been followed by the commander-in-chief, and then a headliner, usually a comedian who roasts everyone in the room. This year, the association booked mentalist Oz Pearlman rather than a comedian, partly to sidestep the potential backlash a comedic performance can cause.

“My job is to bring us together,” Pearlman told NPR.

The parties and the protests

The dinner, which will be televised live by CNN and other channels, is the centerpiece of the weekend’s social calendar, surrounded by more than a dozen brunches, ceremonies, receptions and late-night parties.

Attendees generally say the gladhanding and networking can be valuable in a city that runs on tips and leaks. But the appearance of reporters and politicians yukking it up together generates criticism every year, all the more so this time because Trump is attending.

Ron Fournier, a former DC bureau chief of The Associated Press, acknowledged the tension in a recent essay.

“Yes, the industry’s best reporters will be honored Saturday night with prizes for their work uncovering wrongdoing inside the Trump administration, and the dinner raises money for college scholarships. This is the good work of the WHCA,” Fournier wrote. “But why celebrate journalism alongside a man whose concept of news travels the narrow range between ‘Trump is a great president’ to ‘Trump is the greatest president ever’? Why cel

Análisis por David Goldman, CNN

Las gasolineras están racionando el combustible. Los hospitales se están quedando sin suministros médicos. La gente está acaparando bolsas de plástico y las fábricas se enfrentan a la escasez de envases.

Todo eso está ocurriendo ahora en Asia.

Eso podría convertirse en un problema para Estados Unidos: aproximadamente la mitad de los productos que compran los estadounidenses provienen de Asia.

Si las fábricas asiáticas están sufriendo escasez de suministros, ¿deberían los estadounidenses esperar también escasez?

Posiblemente, pero no todavía. Al menos no de forma generalizada ni grave. Pero cuanto más tiempo permanezca cerrado el estrecho de Ormuz, más difícil será para Estados Unidos evitar que los problemas se acumulen en otros lugares.

Sin duda, las señales de alarma están apareciendo.

La guerra con Irán ha amenazado el suministro mundial de aluminio, plásticos y caucho en particular.

Medio Oriente exporta cerca del 25 % del polipropileno mundial y el 20 % del polietileno, dos de los plásticos más utilizados. Además, representa una cuarta parte del azufre mundial y el 15 % de sus fertilizantes.

“Se habla mucho del petróleo crudo y de sus repercusiones en el diésel y la gasolina, pero también hay escasez de materias primas y productos petroquímicos”, afirmó Angie Gildea, directora global de petróleo y gas de KPMG.

Varios productores petroquímicos importantes, entre ellos Yeochun de Corea del Sur y PCS de Singapur, han declarado “fuerza mayor”, señaló Stephen Brown, economista jefe para Norteamérica de Capital Economics. Esto significa que no pueden cumplir con sus compromisos con los clientes.

Otras empresas afirman que se están quedando sin envases de plástico para sus productos. Un fabricante de preservativos declaró el martes que los precios se dispararían debido a la falta de acceso a las materias primas para su fabricación.

El indicador global de escasez de suministro del S&P 500, una medida clave de los informes de las grandes empresas sobre las limitaciones de existencias, se ha disparado en las últimas semanas, superando su promedio a largo plazo por primera vez en tres años.

“En Estados Unidos estamos más expuestos de lo que creemos”, declaró Ross Mayfield, estratega de inversiones de Baird.

A diferencia de los aranceles, que Trump anunció con meses de antelación, la guerra sorprendió a muchas empresas y les dio poco tiempo para prepararse, especialmente a aquellas que dependen en gran medida de los productos asiáticos.

“La administración impuso aranceles y podría revocarlos”, señaló Mayfield. “Es mucho más difícil sacar a Estados Unidos de esta situación sin complicaciones”.

Los repetidos contratiempos en las negociaciones entre Estados Unidos e Irán sugieren que no se vislumbra una solución al cierre del estrecho de Ormuz. Kpler pronostica que las pérdidas de suministro de petróleo derivadas del cierre de la vía ascenderán a 700 millones de barriles para finales de abril.

Según Gildea, esa escasez de petróleo podría provocar una falta de productos estadounidenses en el futuro.

Por ejemplo, la menor disponibilidad de combustible en Asia podría impedir que los empleados de las fábricas lleguen a sus puestos de trabajo, comentó Gildea, lo que podría ralentizar la producción para la exportación.

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By Brenda Goodman, CNN

(CNN) — Measles crept into Utah and Arizona in June, with reports trickling into local health departments of patients coming to doctors and saying their children had just recovered from full-body rashes, and parents telling pediatricians that their whole family had just recovered from measles.

But because patients would decline testing, there were no official cases in the outbreak until August 8, when the Mojave County, Arizona, Department of Public health received a report about a 10-year-old boy who lived in a tightly knit community that spans the border of northern Arizona and southern Utah.

That outbreak has grown to more than 600 reported cases and is now the most active in the US. The Arizona-Utah cases will almost certainly be important to determining whether the US has lost its measles elimination status, meaning it’s stopped the routine transmission of the virus within its borders for over a year. The meeting to make that determination is now set for November.

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention tasked one of its disease detectives with using molecular evidence – clues buried deep in the genomes of the measles viruses that infected patients – to learn more about when the outbreak really started and how large it actually is.

The number of reported measles cases in the US jumped last year to 2,267, the highest total in more than three decades. Transmission has not slowed, with cases topping 1,700 in just the first four months of this year as the virus spreads through communities that have turned away from vaccination.

Tracing the origins of an outbreak

Almost as soon as the Utah outbreak was confirmed, health officials suspected that the true number of patients was bigger than they knew.

Most disease outbreaks are undercounted because doctors may miss diagnoses of unfamiliar diseases and patients may not seek medical care for religious or cultural reasons. Both factors seemed to be at play in this outbreak.

Measles has not circulated widely in the US in 30 years, so many doctors have never seen a case. Additionally, the community where measles is spreading has been the home of a sect of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, a group that had a charismatic leader named Warren Jeffs who sowed distrust in vaccines.

The measles vaccine is highly effective. Two doses prevent disease roughly 97% of the time. Because the virus is so contagious, lingering in air for up to two hours after a person leaves the room, high vaccination coverage in an area, more than 95%, is needed to stop it from spreading. But misinformation campaigns and a lack of trust in public health officials have caused population-level protection against the virus to plummet.

Public health departments working to combat the outbreak wondered whether it might be possible to estimate when it really started, as well as its true size, by looking at how the genome of the virus had changed over time, according to Dr. Annie Wang, an Epidemic Intelligence Service officer who was assigned to Arizona’s Pima County Health Department during the outbreak.

EIS officers are a group of highly trained public health specialists who are often assigned to state and local public health departments to help with outbreak investigations. Wang presented their investigation into the outbreak Tuesday during the CDC’s annual EIS conference.

This technique for tracing the origins of an outbreak relies on knowing how quickly viruses develop mutations, or changes, in their genetic material as they pass from person to person. The measles virus is relatively stable and changes very little during transmission. But even this relativel