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Dear Annie: Affectionate brothers

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Dear Annie: My daughter is single and raising two sons. Her husband died in an automobile accident four years ago. I am worried about the relationship between her sons, “Steven,” 16, and “Frederick,” 10. I think they are too close and too affectionate with each other. Steven is very protective of Frederick, and Frederick worships his big brother. When I visit them or they come to my house, they cling to each other. They are constantly hugging and even kissing, which I honestly find a bit disgusting. Sometimes they watch TV together cuddled up on the sofa. I have even seen ...

Has Trump broken his McDonald’s promise?

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The defining moment of the 2024 presidential campaign, it can be argued, came almost exactly two years ago, on Sunday, Oct. 20, when then-former President Donald Trump traded his suit coat for a yellow apron and worked the fry station and the drive-thru window at a McDonald’s. His staff picked a propitious location in the battleground state of Pennsylvania: lower Bucks County, just south of the Pennsylvania Turnpike and about a mile west of U.S. 1, suburban turf settled a generation or two ago by the sons and daughters of blue-collar ethnic communities in northeast ...

1992 presidential debate

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AP Photo/Lennox McLendon Democratic presidential candidate Gov. Bill Clinton, center, shakes hands with President George Bush, right, following the final presidential debate. At left is Independent Ross Perot, walking off the stage at Michigan State University in East Lansing, Michigan, Oct. 19, 1992.

Trump’s final humiliation of Lindsey Graham

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Dear Lindsey, Your body had not long been in the grave when your pal Donald Trump made the anti-Russia legislation that carried your name a nullity. Wondering how you’d feel about this if you were around to see it. The whole point of your last decade of life was the belief (or was it a rationalization?) that by truckling to Trump you could do more good than you could have by opposing him. In your final hours, you reportedly joked that “I can’t die now. I still need to do the Russia sanctions, get Iran sorted out and do Israeli-Saudi normalization.” That was the Graham ...

Patient with BPH needs biopsy to be performed on prostate

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DEAR DR. ROACH: I am 68 years old and have an enlarged prostate and benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH). I’ve been taking tamsulosin for about seven years. My PSA level has slowly creeped up and was recently measured at 4.5 ng/mL. My doctor did a 4Kscore test, and it was rather high at 49%, indicating a higher potential for aggressive prostate cancer. The digital rectacl exam (DRE) was normal. An MRI came out low, at PI-RADS score of 2. My doctor indicated that there has been limited research on correlations between a relatively low PSA level and a high 4Kscore. A biopsy isn’t ideal ...

Dear Annie: Shoplifting in front of kids

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Dear Annie: My son and his wife have been married for 11 years, and my daughter-in-law, age 31, has struggled with alcoholism, depression and anxiety for the past six years. She’s also attempted suicide a few times in the past three years. She is under the care of a psychiatrist. But who knows whether she is telling him the truth? She also is a shoplifter. My two young granddaughters know that their mother does this. I’ve spoken with my granddaughters about this, as has my son, and they both know it is wrong and have asked their mother to stop. She shoplifted again yesterday while ...