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Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin Back in Hospital Weeks After Secretive Stay<!-- wp:html --><p>Alex Wong/Getty Images</p> <p>Defense Secretary <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/keyword/lloyd-austin">Lloyd Austin</a> was hospitalized on Sunday “for symptoms suggesting an emergent bladder issue,” a Pentagon spokesperson said in a statement.</p> <p>It comes a month after Austin’s last hospital stay, for complications from prostate cancer surgery that he kept hidden from the White House.</p> <p>Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder, the Pentagon press secretary, said that while Austin is in the hospital this time, he will continue to work until further notice.</p> <p><a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/defense-secretary-lloyd-austin-hospitalized-with-bladder-issue-weeks-after-secretive-stay">Read more at The Daily Beast.</a></p><!-- /wp:html -->

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Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin was hospitalized on Sunday “for symptoms suggesting an emergent bladder issue,” a Pentagon spokesperson said in a statement.

It comes a month after Austin’s last hospital stay, for complications from prostate cancer surgery that he kept hidden from the White House.

Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder, the Pentagon press secretary, said that while Austin is in the hospital this time, he will continue to work until further notice.

Read more at The Daily Beast.

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