Alex Trebek Has Pancreatic Cancer

Longtime Jeopardy! host Alex Trebek is asking for prayers while disclosing he has Stage 4 pancreatic cancer.

Trebek, 78, says he plans to continue working, and joked that he has to beat cancer because his contract says he has to host the show for three more years.

Freedom, Safety, Suicide, and Life:  Conversion Therapy Ban Draws Intense Testimony on Beacon Hill
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Freedom, Safety, Suicide, and Life:  Conversion Therapy Ban Draws Intense Testimony on Beacon Hill

John Cronin

An exchange between two men who have felt same-sex attraction but have sharply different takes on it highlighted nearly three hours of testimony about a proposed ban on conversion therapy at the Massachusetts State House.

Ken Williams, a California man who co-founded Changed, an organization of men and women who say they have left homosexuality, clashed with state Representative Jack Lewis (D-Framingham), a second-term legislator who used to run an organization dedicated to homosexual and transgender young people and is civilly married to a man.

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