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NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt

Sunday, May 18, 2025

NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt

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Policy, War, Government, Politics, President, News, Information, Political, World, Campaign, Congress

4.32K Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2025

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Biden diagnosed with ‘aggressive’ form of prostate cancer; 2 dead, more than a dozen injured after Mexican navy ship crashes into Brooklyn Bridge; FBI calls California fertility clinic bombing an ‘act of terrorism’; and more on tonight’s broadcast.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Breaking news tonight, former President Biden diagnosed with prostate cancer.

0:05.3

We're learning tonight he's set to receive treatment for an aggressive form of the cancer that has already spread to his bones.

0:11.8

What we know about his condition and the new reaction just coming in.

0:16.2

The heart stopping moment, a tall ship, look at that, crashes into the Brooklyn Bridge, the boat out of control, the masts crushed.

0:24.6

Oh my gosh.

0:26.6

You see here, sailors hanging from the rigging, crowds on shore running for safety, and now the push to understand how this could have happened. Terror in Palm Springs, the deadly bombing at a fertility clinic.

0:41.3

What we're learning now about the suspect and why he may have done it.

0:45.3

A devastating tornado outbreak, leaving a path of destruction in Missouri and Kentucky.

0:51.3

We had a community of people in this neighborhood and like, it's gone. It's gone.

0:56.0

At least 28 people killed in the South and Midwest. Cars, flipped, homes, leveled, and now the new

1:03.6

threat to Missouri tomorrow. President Trump taking on Walmart over tariffs, telling them not to raise

1:10.1

prices.

1:15.8

But the Treasury Secretary says he told the company's CEO and what it all means for the price you pay.

1:17.5

The Pope calling for peace in his first public mass as the Ukrainian president meets with

1:23.0

Vice President Vance just ahead of talks between Russia's leader and President Trump.

1:27.8

And there's good news tonight about the kindness of strangers and this mom's trip of a lifetime.

1:37.2

This is NBC Nightly News with Hallie Jackson.

1:41.6

Good evening. We are coming on the air with breaking news tonight.

1:44.6

Former President Biden diagnosed with an aggressive form of prostate cancer, according to his

1:50.1

personal office, which says the cancer has spread to his bones. He and his family are now reviewing

1:55.4

treatment options with his doctors. The former president, who's 82, receiving support from around the country and here

2:02.4

in Washington, including from President Trump late today, wishing his predecessor a fast and

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