Former ESPN star Adrian Wojnarowski revealed in an interview he was diagnosed with prostate cancer before he decided to leave the company and take a job at St. Bonaventure.

Wojnarowski opened up about the cancer in an interview with Sports Illustrated. He said he went to the doctor in February and blood tests revealed an elevated prostate-specific antigen (PSA). He had a second blood test after an MRI showed nothing. A biopsy later revealed the early-stage cancer.

“When you hear cancer, you think about it going through your body like Pac-Man,” Wojnarowski said. “Prostate cancer, it generally stays confined to your prostate and is typically slow growing.”

He added that the cancer is “pretty limited in scope” and that he’s going through checkups every three months. He said doctors have told him to change his eating habits and surgery is an option but only if he can’t handle the battle mentally, according to Sports Illustrated.

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NEW YORK– President-elect Donald Trump was certainly top of mind on Wednesday when media executives, finance bigwigs and tech entrepreneurs gathered in New York City to hear from some of the world’s most influential people at the annual New York Times DealBook Summit. 

Rather than the hostility that could be expected from elites at the event, some were optimistic.

“I’m very hopeful — he seems to have a lot of energy around reducing regulation,” billionaire Jeff Bezos told Times columnist Andrew Ross Sorkin during an on-stage conversation. 

“My point of view is, if I can help him do that, I’m going to help him,” Bezos continued. “Because we do have too much regulation in this country.”

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Bezos, who owns the Washington Post, faced significant backlash from both employees and subscribers when he nixed the liberal newspaper’s planned endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris days before the election. 

“It was the right decision,” Bezos told Sorkin. 

“I’m proud of the decision we made, and it was far from cowardly because we knew there would be blowback,” he added. “We did the right thing.” 

Bezos dismissed the belief that he didn’t want his paper to endorse Harris because Trump could hold a grudge against Amazon, the Washington Post or his other companies. He even suggested that he likes what he’s seen from Trump since his victory over Harris. 

“I’m very optimistic that President Trump is serious about this regulatory agenda and I think he has a good chance of succeeding,” Bezos said. 

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Sorkin then asked, “What about this idea that he thinks the press is the enemy?”

Bezos said he would “try and talk him out of that,” and said Trump has “grown” in the last few years. 

“I don’t think he’s going to see it the same way. Maybe I’ll be wrong,” Bezos said. 

“What I’ve seen so far is he is calmer than he was the first time,” Bezos added. “And more confident, more settled.”

President-elect Donald Trump was top of mind for media executives, finance bigwigs and tech entrepreneurs at the annual New York Times DealBook Summit.  (Chris Unger/Zuffa LLC)

Bezos wasn’t the only high-profile speaker to discuss Trump.  

Former President Bill Clinton, who told Sorkin he “wished” President Biden hadn’t repeatedly promised he wouldn’t pardon his son Hunter Biden if he was going to do it anyway, also evoked the incoming president. 

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Clinton said Democrats haven’t learned to disagree with the press without sounding like a “left-wing version of Donald Trump,” noting that some Republicans appreciate anti-press rhetoric, but liberals largely frown upon it.

Jerome Powell, the chair of the Federal Reserve, also spoke at the event and said he was “confident” that working with Trump’s Treasury nominee, Scott Bessent, would be smooth. “Call Her Daddy” podcast host Alex Cooper revealed that her team had discussions with Trump’s campaign ahead of the election – an interview never took place, but she did interview Harris – and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman sacked concerns that Elon Musk’s close relationship to Trump could hurt OpenAI.

Alex Cooper, host of “Call Her Daddy” and founder of the Unwell Network, speaks during the New York Times annual DealBook summit at Jazz at Lincoln Center on December 04, 2024 in New York City.  ((Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images))

“I believe pretty strongly that Elon will do the right thing and that it would be profoundly un-American to use political power to the degree that Elon would hurt competitors and advantage his own businesses,” Altman told Sorkin. 

Citadel CEO Ken Griffin, a GOP donor, kicked things off hours before Bezos took the stage by suggesting America is “back to business” to a packed crowd inside Jazz at Lincoln Center. 

“For corporate America, it’s a better world today than it was before the election,” Griffin told Sorkin. 

The annual DealBook conference in New York City showcases some of the most influential people in the world. Google CEO Sundar Pichai, Prince Harry, the Duke of Sussex, and tennis legend Serena Williams were among other speakers. 

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Former CNN boss Chris Licht, New England Patriots owner Bob Kraft, billionaire hedge fund guru Bill Ackman, Polymarket CEO Shayne Coplan, longtime anchor Katie Couric, former CNN boss Jeff Zucker, Lance Armstrong and fashion designer Rebecca Minkoff were among the high-profile attendees of the suumit.

Pro Football Hall of Famer Brett Favre thinks America should take its farms back. 

Favre, who passionately supported and celebrated President-elect Donald Trump amid the election cycle and after his victory, shared a post on X in which he advocated for America taking back farm land owned by China. He re-shared a post that read “Do you think China should forfeit their 192,000 acres of US farmland and banned from purchasing more?” 

Favre captioned the re-share with, “That’s a ton of land. If true, Americans should own American farmland.”

Chinese agricultural investment in the U.S. increased tenfold between 2009 and 2016 alone, Fox News Digital previously reported. 

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Investigative journalist Sara Carter said in 2022 that the Department of Agriculture (USDA) estimated China owned about 192,000 acres of U.S. land in 2019, which she added has been augmented since March 2021 with a collective $6.1 billion in land.

Carter also found that China-owned farmland was located in several critical locations across the U.S., including land in proximity to Laughlin Air Base near the U.S.-Mexico border in Texas, but the open, uncontrolled U.S.-Mexican border presents complications given the reported amount of Chinese-linked fentanyl being smuggled in from Mexico. 

Carter reported that a Chinese company purchased 370 acres in the vicinity of Grand Forks Air Force Base and in Montana near a U.S. nuclear site.

The Biden administration failed to properly track foreign ownership of U.S. farmlands and did not appear to have a plan to begin tracking that data, according to an investigation by the U.S. Government Accountability Office in January. 

The investigation found that the USDA has failed to consistently share timely data on foreign investments in U.S. agricultural land as required under the 1978 Agricultural Foreign Investment Disclosure Act.

Republican lawmakers and local leaders nationwide have increased scrutiny on land purchases by foreign investors. The increasing number of land purchases has sparked concern that foreign companies and investors, particularly those from China, may be establishing a stranglehold on key U.S. food and energy supplies.

In March, Reps. Elissa Slotkin, D-Mich., and Blake Moore, R-Utah, proposed a plan to expand the authority of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States over foreign real estate purchases.

Now, Favre appears to be doing his part to spread awareness about the issue as well, ahead of Trump’s inauguration and return to the White House on Jan. 20. 

Favre dedicated much of his social media presence to praise of Trump and critique of Democrats in the recent election cycle and even joined Trump on the campaign trail for a rally in Wisconsin. At that rally, Favre ripped both President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris for their handling of various issues in the country during their administration. He particularly made sure to call out Biden for comments he had made about Trump supporters being “garbage.” 

“I can assure you we’re not garbage. How dare he say that? I see police officers, teachers, nurses, grandparents, students. I see everyday Americans that make this country great,” Favre said.

Favre went so far as to say that voting for Harris would be “insane.” 

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“We’ve already had President Trump once — we’ve already seen Kamala in action. We can compare, and we know which is better,” Favre continued. “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results… It would be insane to give Kamala four more years in office. So it’s time to bench Kamala and put in the star quarterback.”

Favre’s Trump support dates as far back as the 2020 election that Trump lost to Biden. 

The Hall of Fame quarterback endorsed Trump on Oct. 30, 2020 in a post on X, citing his stance on issues of freedom of speech, gun rights and support for the military and police. 

“My Vote is for what makes this country great, freedom of speech and religion, the second amendment, hard-working tax-paying citizens, police and military. In this election, we have freedom of choice, which all should respect. For me and these principles, my vote is for [Donald Trump],” Favre wrote. 

Favre made this endorsement despite the fact that he has, on multiple occasions, said he believes sports are becoming “too political.”

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In late 2020 and early 2021, Favre did a podcast called “Bolling With Favre” with co-host TV personality Eric Bolling. Favre stirred backlash with comments on several topics, including his stance on NFL players kneeling for the national anthem and wanting to keep transgenders out of women’s sports. 

After Derek Chauvin, the police officer responsible for the death of George Floyd, was sentenced to prison, Favre said on the podcast that he “found it hard to believe” Chauvin intended to kill Floyd. These comments incited backlash from current NFL players, including former Pro Bowl wide receiver Steve Smith, and fellow former NFL wide receiver Torrey Smith.

The podcast was discontinued in June 2021. 

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Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos defended the paper’s choice to not endorse a 2024 presidential candidate a few weeks before the election, arguing it wouldn’t have made a difference anyway.

Liberal staffers publicly condemned the decision not to endorse Vice President Kamala Harris after a draft had reportedly already been written. There were resignations from Post staffers and editorial board members, a mass exodus of subscribers and Bezos even had to defend the “principled decision” in a rare op-ed.

Bezos was asked about the decision on Wednesday as he was interviewed by New York Times columnist Andrew Ross Sorkin at DealBook Summit 2024.

After recalling the history of The Post, citing how the organization historically did not endorse candidates up until after Watergate, he explained, “We just decided that, you know, it wasn’t going to help … it wasn’t going to influence the election either way.”

“There’s no evidence that newspaper endorsements influence elections,” Bezos said. “No independent voter in Pennsylvania at that time was gonna say, ‘Oh! Is that what the Washington Post thinks? Well, then I’ll do that.’ So that wasn’t going to happen.”

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“We just decided that the pluses of [an endorsement] were very small and it added to the perception of bias,” he continued. “At the same time, you know, we’re struggling with the issue that all traditional media is struggling with, which is a very difficult and significant loss of trust.”

He said the media not only has to be accurate, but the people have to believe it’s accurate.

Sorkin read particularly scathing rebukes of the non-endorsement from former Post executive editor Marty Baron and journalist David Remnick, but Bezos stood his ground. 

Andrew Ross Sorkin and Jeff Bezos speak onstage during The New York Times Dealbook Summit 2024 at Jazz at Lincoln Center on December 04, 2024 in New York City.  ((Photo by Eugene Gologursky/Getty Images for The New York Times))

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“We made this decision, it was the right decision. I’m proud of the decision we made, and it was far from cowardly because we knew there would be blowback, and we did the right thing anyway,” he said. 

Sorkin proceeded to bring up the backlash, such as 250,000 people canceling their subscriptions, asking if Bezos’ attempt to restore trust in the media had backfired and instead made them more wary of it.

“No, I don’t follow that logic,” Bezos said, later adding that he was not surprised by the backlash, “You can’t do the wrong thing because you’re worried about bad PR or whatever it is you want to call it. This was the right decision. We made the right decision. I’m very proud of that decision.”

When Bezos expressed his optimism about Trump’s next presidency, Sorkin pressed him about the president-elect’s contentious relationship with the media, having referred to them as the “enemy.”

“I’m going to try to talk him out of that idea. I don’t think the press is the enemy. And I don’t think, you know, he’s also… You’ve probably grown in the last two years. He has, too. Like, it’s, you know, this is not the case. The press is not the enemy,” Bezos said. 

He later added, “Let’s go persuade him of this. You and I should go. Let’s go talk to him.”

Fox News’ Brian Flood contributed to this report.

Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti said he’s feeling “really good” about the arguments delivered Wednesday before the Supreme Court in a case over transgender treatment.

The historic case, United States v. Skrmetti, questions whether a Tennessee law passed last year violates the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment.

Tennessee Senate Bill 1 (SB1) prohibits all medical treatments intended to allow “a minor to identify with, or live as, a purported identity inconsistent with the minor’s sex” or to treat “purported discomfort or distress from a discordance between the minor’s sex and asserted identity.”

“We felt great about putting on a strong case for Tennessee’s law. It is an evidence-based law. It is a bipartisan supermajority of the Tennessee legislature that adopted this,” said Skrmetti Wednesday on “The Ingraham Angle.”

Dr. Jared Ross, a senior fellow at the Do No Harm medical advocacy group, argued there’s no consensus about allowing minors to use hormone therapy and puberty blockers or undergo gender surgery.

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Activists for and against trans rights protest outside the U.S. Supreme Court before the start of the United States v. Skrmetti case on Wednesday, December 4, 2024. (Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

“There’s not a consensus domestically as we see groups like the American Society of Plastic Surgeons speaking out against these practices. And there’s not a consensus internationally,” Ross said on “The Ingraham Angle.” “We’ve seen the U.K. walk back on this and ban it. Finland, Sweden [and] Belgium as well. So there’s no consensus here.”

“In some cases, it’s the parents that are motivating this. In some cases, the parents are being misled by the medical establishment. They have children that have underlying mental health co-morbidities, anxiety, depression, autism. And they’re being told that if they simply transition their child, that everything will be fine. And we know from the data that that’s clearly not the case, that these kids continue to struggle and their struggles get worse,” he continued.

Detransitioner and activist Chloe Cole outside the Supreme Court building during oral arguments in the Skrmetti vs. U.S. case on Dec. 4, 2024.  (Fox News Digital)

United States v. Skrmetti was brought by three transgender youths, their families and a Memphis physician who contend the Tennessee ban on hormone therapy, puberty blockers and gender surgery amounts to sex-based discrimination, thereby violating the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment.

Lucas Cameron-Vaughn, a staff attorney at the ACLU of Tennessee, said in a press release that the Supreme Court has the opportunity to “affirm the essential freedom and equality of all people before the law — including trans youth and their families.” 

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“Every day this law inflicts further pain, injustice, and discrimination on families in Tennessee and prevents them from receiving the medical care they need,” he continued. “We ask the Supreme Court to commit to upholding the promises of the U.S. Constitution for all people by putting an end to Tennessee’s state-sanctioned discrimination against trans youth and their families.”