Fox News' Charles Krauthammer Has Just Weeks to Live The 68-year-old ‘Washington Post’ columnist and Pulitzer Prize winner revealed his diagnosis in his final column on Friday. Krauthammer wrote about how he has been recovering from a surgery to remove a cancerous tumor from his abdomen for much of the last year but that he has suffered a series of complications stemming from the surgery, and doctors recently informed him the cancer has returned. Charles Krauthammer, in 'The Washington Post' Charles Krauthammer, in 'The Washington Post'