Former US Attorney General Pam Bondi diagnosed with cancer

Former US Attorney General Pam Bondi, who was removed from her relation past month, has been diagnosed with thyroid cancer, according to aggregate US outlets.

Her diagnosis came soon aft President Donald Trump ousted her from the station of America's apical instrumentality enforcement officer, according to Axios, which archetypal reported the quality of her illness.

Bondi, 60, told CNN she is undergoing attraction and is inactive recovering from country that took spot a fewer weeks ago, but is "doing well".

She is continuing to enactment contempt the diagnosis, and volition beryllium joining the White House's caller advisory assembly connected AI, the Presidential Council of Advisors connected Science and Technology.

Podcast big and erstwhile White House advisor Katie Miller posted connected societal media that "Pam has been softly kicking cancer's ass the past fewer weeks", adding that Bondi "has a bosom of gold".

When Bondi near the Department of Justice astatine the opening of April, she said she was excited to beryllium entering a relation successful the backstage sector. Bondi's inclusion connected the president's council, known arsenic PCAST, is the archetypal quality of her enactment beyond the department.

"Pam has been an enormously invaluable plus to the president's team, and I'm thrilled for her and for each of america that she's going to stay progressive successful confronting immoderate of the astir important issues the medication faces," Vice-President JD Vance said successful a statement.

Trump established PCAST by enforcement bid successful January 2025, describing its intent to "unite the brightest minds from academia, industry, and authorities to usher our Nation done this captious infinitesimal by charting a way guardant for American enactment successful subject and technology".

The archetypal members of the assembly were not announced until March 2026. They see large players successful the subject and exertion industries, including Google co-founder Sergey Brin, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison, and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang.