Rudy Giuliani, former mayor of New York City, is in the hospital “in critical but stable condition”, his spokesperson said on Sunday evening.
Ted Goodman, the spokesperson, posted on social media: “Mayor Giuliani is a fighter who has faced every challenge in his life with unwavering strength, and he’s fighting with that same level of strength as we speak. We do ask that you join us in prayer for America’s Mayor Rudy Giuliani.”
It is unclear why Giuliani, 81, is in the hospital or how long he has been there for.
Giuliani garnered acclaim for his response to the 11 September 2001 al-Qaida attack on New York City, earning the nickname “America’s mayor”.
Giuliani worked as an attorney for Donald Trump in his failed efforts to overturnthe results of the 2020 election, an effort that led to criminal charges against Giuliani in two US states and a defamation lawsuit from election workers. Giuliani has denied wrongdoing in the criminal cases. Trump pardoned Giuliani after he faced criminal charges for his efforts to help try to overturn the 2020 election.
Trump, on his social media platform Truth Social, praised his former attorney: “Our fabulous Rudy Giuliani, a True Warrior, and the Best Mayor in the History of New York City, BY FAR, has been hospitalized, and is in critical condition,” he wrote on Sunday. He went on to say, without evidence, that Giuliani had been “right about everything” and that Democrats “did anything possible to destroy our nation, and now, look at Rudy. So sad!”
He was previously hospitalized last year following a car crash in New Hampshire.
A suspected hantavirus outbreak aboard a cruise ship in the Atlantic Ocean has left three people dead and several others ill, the World Health Organization (WHO) said in a statement posted to X.
The U.N. health agency said one case of hantavirus infection has been laboratory confirmed, while five additional suspected cases are pending. Of the six people affected, three have died and one is currently in intensive care in South Africa.
The WHO said it is coordinating with governments and the ship’s operator to arrange the medical evacuation of two symptomatic passengers, while continuing to assess the public health risk to those still on board.
“Detailed investigations are ongoing, including further laboratory testing, and epidemiological investigations,” the WHO said. “Medical care and support are being provided to passengers and crew. Sequencing of the virus is also ongoing.”
The cruise ship MV Hondius is stationary off the port of Praia, Cape Verde, on May 3, 2026. An outbreak of severe acute respiratory illness on board the ship has resulted in two deaths and one patient in intensive care in Johannesburg, South Africa. The patient tested positive for hantavirus, according to South African health officials.(AFP/Getty Images)
Oceanwide Expeditions, which operates the vessel, confirmed that three passengers died during the voyage and that one passenger is being treated in intensive care in Johannesburg.
Two crew members on board also require urgent medical care, the company said.
The cruise ship MV Hondius is stationary off the port of Praia, Cape Verde, on May 3, 2026, amid an outbreak of severe acute respiratory illness that has caused two deaths and left a third patient in intensive care in Johannesburg, South Africa. The patient tested positive for hantavirus, according to South African health officials.(AFP via Getty Images)
As of late Sunday, authorities in Cape Verde had not authorized the disembarkation of passengers requiring medical treatment or broader medical screening, according to the company.
Local health officials have boarded the vessel to assess the situation but have not yet approved the transfer of symptomatic individuals to facilities on land.
“The priority of Oceanwide Expeditions is to ensure that the two symptomatic individuals on board receive adequate and expedited medical care,” the company said.
A 3D illustration shows the structure of hantavirus, an RNA virus transmitted to humans through rodent excreta that can cause severe illnesses including hemorrhagic fever, renal disease, and hantavirus pulmonary syndrome.(iStock)
Dutch authorities are working to coordinate the repatriation of those affected from Cape Verde to the Netherlands, though the effort depends on approval from local officials, Oceanwide Expeditions said.
“While rare, hantavirus may spread between people, and can lead to severe respiratory illness and requires careful patient monitoring, support and response,” WHO said.
There is no specific cure for the virus, though early treatment can improve survival.
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Accidents often occur on the Eastern Peripheral Highway due to speeding vehicles. This route is an important route connecting Delhi-NCR. Police said that the people in the car were going somewhere. The truck driver has fled from the spot.
Three died in road accident
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A horrific road accident took place on Monday on the Eastern Peripheral Highway of Dadri in Greater Noida. In this accident, three people including a woman died on the spot. A girl has been seriously injured.
Spirit Airlines has almost finished refunding customers for flights abruptly canceled over the weekend as the company folded.
The budget airline left thousands of customers and staff stranded after deciding on Saturday to pull the plug on a business that was struggling for years, before a surge in the price of jet fuel blew a new hole in its budget.
“Unfortunately, despite the company’s best efforts, the recent material increase in oil prices and other pressures on the business have significantly impacted Spirit’s financial outlook,” the statement reads. “With no additional funding available to the company, Spirit had no choice but to begin this wind-down.”
Transportation secretary Sean Duffy, however, cast the blame for the airline’s failure on the Joe Biden administration in comments to the media on Saturday. The justice department under Biden blocked a proposed merger that would have joined Spirit and JetBlue.
“Many at the time said this was a disaster, this merger should have been allowed,” Duffy said. “And this today would indicate this is not better for travelers, this is not better for pricing, this is not better for competition – actually it’s worse.”
Duffy urged Spirit customers to stay home.
“If you have a flight scheduled with Spirit Airlines, don’t show up at the airport – there will be no one here to assist you,” Duffy said. “What Spirit Airlines is now going to do is go through an orderly liquidation process. We’ll see how that goes through the course of the next couple of days.”
Conservative critics, including Duffy, drew attention to comments from Elizabeth Warren, a Democratic senator from Massachusetts, praising the Biden administration’s blocking of the merger back in 2024. Warren said at the time that the merger would have led to “fewer flights and higher fares”.
In response to the criticism, Warren tweeted on X that Spirit collapsed over spiking oil prices, adding that the “JetBlue merger failed because a judge, appointed by Ronald Reagan, said the deal was illegal”.
“Republicans are desperate to shift blame from higher costs hitting families,” Warren tweeted.
“Saturday Night Live” opened its Saturday episode with a White House press briefing sketch featuring Aziz Ansari as FBI Director Kash Patel, satirizing the administration’s response to an assassination attempt of President Donald Trump at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner.
The sketch’s most striking moment came as Ansari’s Patel framed himself as a “trailblazer” while undercutting his own competence.
“I’m the first Indian person to suck at their job,” Ansari said as Patel. “We can be just as incapable and incompetent as the Whites.”
The character also mocked the agency’s investigative timeline when pressed by reporters.
Aziz Ansari appears as Kash Patel at a mock press conference, joking about the FBI’s investigation into the assassination attempt and responding to criticism of his leadership.(Candice Ward/Getty Images for Lionsgate)
“For those of you saying I’m doing a bad job running the FBI, well, what if I told you this agency is only six weeks away from pinpointing the exact location of Osama bin Laden,” Ansari said.
At another point, the character referenced the alleged manifesto tied to the Correspondents’ dinner suspect while addressing questions about his standing with Trump.
“Even the Correspondents Dinner shooter said, ‘Kill everyone but Mr. Patel,’” Ansari said. “You get a shout-out like that in a psycho’s manifesto, you must be doing something right.”
The cold open also included a portrayal of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth by Colin Jost, shifting briefly to foreign policy and military operations involving Iran.
Colin Jost portrays Pete Hegseth, delivering exaggerated updates on military action and trading insults with reporters during the briefing.(Gilbert Flores/WWD)
“As you might have seen on our sick-a– TikTok, we’ve been bombing stuff, doing sick air raids,” Jost said as Hegseth. “This war has been a movie, specifically ‘The NeverEnding Story.’”
When pressed on costs associated with the conflict, the sketch used musical parody to deflect.
“I guess I could put it in terms like a theater kid like you would understand, 525,000, 600 billion,” Jost said. “In summary, war is awesome.”
The sketch opened with Ashley Padilla portraying White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt, who introduced Hegseth before the briefing escalated.
The cold open stages a White House press room scene featuring multiple Trump administration figures addressing the attempted attack and taking questions from the press.(Brendan Smialowski/AFP)
“That’s when you tell President Trump about your maternity and he says leave,” Padilla said as Leavitt.
The sketch included Patel dismissing allegations about his conduct in office as he fielded questions from reporters. The sketch also featured a running gag about Patel denying allegations of misconduct, including questions about email access and personal behavior.
“I’ve always been able to log into my email, except for a brief 36-hour period of time when I forgot I had changed my password,” Ansari said as Patel.
The episode of Saturday Night Live followed a security breach at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner, where prosecutors allege suspect Cole Tomas Allen attempted to storm the event with multiple weapons. Federal authorities have said the investigation remains ongoing.
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Will be uploaded on the board’s website at 11 o’clock
According to the information, Himachal Pradesh School Education Board had organized the board examinations of class 12th from March 3 to April 1. During this period, more than 81 thousand students appeared for the examination across the state. The Education Board had started the evaluation of answer sheets from April 5 at 41 centers established across the state. Dr. Major Vishal Sharma, Secretary of the School Education Board, said that the examination results have been prepared. It will be declared on May 4 at 11 am and will be uploaded on the board’s website.
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HPBOSE 12th Result 2026 Live: Himachal Board result will be released today, first check the results here in an easy way.
Himachal Pradesh Board of School Education will declare the class 12th exam result today at 11 am. More than 81 thousand candidates have appeared for the 12th class examination across the state. The education board will declare the results of Arts-Commerce and Science streams on Monday. This time the 12th class exam result will also be uploaded on the website of Amar Ujala. From where students will be able to see it easily.
Rebecca Mohr Bell, a cattle farmer and business owner, lives 100km south-west of Katherine in the Northern Territory, and with three young children, has relied on in-home childcare since 2018.
The little-known taxpayer supported program is used by about 800 families with children who cannot access mainstream care, including because they live in remote locations, have serious illness or a disability, or because their parents work unusual hours.
Mohr Bell and her husband have a full-time live-in childcare educator, but recent cost increases not covered by the government have left her family in a difficult situation. She said her gap payments after receiving the childcare subsidy have skyrocketed in the past two years due to the rising cost of accommodation and wages.
“It’s just going to mean it becomes unaffordable. I just can’t afford to do it or I’ll have to cut the hours for my educator which is not really feasible either,” she said.
“We’re not asking for anything special. We’re just asking to be treated equitably and ensure that our children have got access to the same quality of childcare that children in metropolitan [areas] have.”
Nearly one in three childcare operators providing last resort services for regional and remote families, and children with disabilities and other complex needs say they are at risk of shutting down, warning government-funded pay rises for workers in mainstream childcare centres must be extended to in-home care.
Workers in the program have been excluded from the federal government’s childcare worker retention program, which will increase wages by more than 15%, staged over two years. That cost is instead being absorbed by families, who are reducing hours or leaving the system altogether.
A survey of providers by the peak body found 31% said they are now at risk of closure, with more than half declaring they are operating “under significant pressure”.
The survey of 23 providers, which service 810 families, found some services were concerned that after the next wage increase on 1 July, up to 50% of families could withdraw from the program, and the services could be placed on a “direct path to closure”.
Already, the sector says it has seen a reduction in hours of more than 30% and almost three-quarters of providers have seen families reduce hours or withdraw entirely.
The sector’s peak body, the Australian Home Childcare Association (AHCA), said providers on already thin margins were being forced to pass on the wage increases to families, many of whom are “the most vulnerable in the country”.
“The majority of the families we support come from complex medical, child protection, and high-risk backgrounds. These are not families who can transition into mainstream care,” said in-home care provider and AHCA president, Nicole Morgan.
“Services will close. Families will lose care. Educators will exit the workforce. And children – already identified as vulnerable – will be left in increasingly unsafe and unsupported environments.”
Advocates have already warned the government the in-home care program is expensive, difficult to access and carries high administrative burdens on families. Just a quarter of the program’s 3,200 places are filled – in 2022, 37% of places were filled, and before 2018, 59% of 3,000 available places were used.
A 2024 report by the productivity commission, found the hourly rate cap for in-home care did not adequately take into account operating costs and recommended it be reviewed. In-home care is more expensive than centre-based care due to higher qualification requirements and lower educator-to-child ratios.
Greens senator Steph Hodgins-May said she has been contacted by families including nurses and doctors working shifts, parents of children with cancer and families on cattle stations “hours from the nearest childcare centre, who are all at breaking point”.
“Some have had to unenroll from care because they simply can’t afford to stay in the system. All the red tape just to enrol in in-home care means the program is going underused, and even those who get in are being priced out,” she said.
“Instead of expanding to offer real choice to those who need it, the sector is fighting for survival.”
The childcare minister, Jess Walsh, would not commit to increasing funding for the program, and said families using in-home care are already supported by the childcare subsidy.
“I know that in-home care is important to the around 800 families who use it and who, for a range of reasons, can’t participate in centre-based care.”
Public Works Minister Kailash Vijayvargiya, who was in-charge of Bengal, expressed happiness over BJP’s victory in Bengal and said that the public supported BJP even in the booths in Bengal where workers were not allowed to sit earlier. Elections were held in Bengal amid an atmosphere of fear for 30 years.
For the first time, voters voted fearlessly. He said it was difficult to get workers to work for the BJP in Bengal. During the last elections alone, 300 workers were murdered. Houses of many workers were burnt. Despite this we did not give up. BJP’s victory in Bengal is dedicated to those workers.
False allegations like rape were made in Bengal
Vijayvargiya also expressed his pain during this time and said that he was targeted in Bengal. That was unbearable. Serious allegations like rape were made to break my morale. Because of this I have suffered mental pain for six years. While saying these things, his eyes filled with tears and he said that these tears are not my weakness, but my pain against injustice.
He said that after 2014, Modi government has brought development across the country. Its effect has been seen in Bengal also. This victory shows the pace of development. The Indian Army is among the third most powerful armies in the world. Vijayvargiya said that Home Minister Amit Shah’s strategy also worked in Bengal’s victory. Now Bengal will be free from corruption and develop as Sonar Bangla.
Ashley Graham is fighting back against the rise in popularity of weight loss shots.
Graham, 38, admitted her work cultivating the body positivity sphere has been more challenging lately due to the rampant use of GLP-1’s on and off the runway.
“It’s really disheartening,” she told Marie Claire about beauty industry standards more predominately swaying toward skinny.
“There was a pendulum that swung that was so body acceptance, positivity, everybody be who they want to be. And now it’s going back this whole opposite way that feels like a smack in the face to the women who have felt like they’ve had a voice.”
Ashley Graham slammed weight loss shots as another trend negatively impacting the body positivity movement.(Taylor Hill/FilmMagic)
Graham became synonymous with the body positivity movement more than a decade ago as one of the first visibly plus-size models to walk high-fashion runways, and earned covers on nearly every major magazine.
She’s witnessed “more movement for plus-size women than some people give the whole industry credit for,” but still acknowledged the dangers of weight loss shots.
“It goes with the times — and GLP-1s are a time,” she said. “I know that there are and there’s gonna still be women who are considered plus size forever.”
Ashley Graham said the use of weight loss shots in her industry is “really disheartening.”(Taylor Hill/WireImage)
The mother of three added, “This drug isn’t going to wipe out a whole statistic of women.”
Graham emphasized that her work in the body positivity movement feels more crucial than ever, especially as trends begin to favor slimmer body types again.
“Why would I stop now and why would I get angry about the work I’ve done?,” Graham questioned. “I put my head down and I focus on the women we’ve built the community with.
Ashley Graham has been a champion for the body positivity movement.(Angela Weiss/AFP via Getty Images)
“There’s so many [plus size influencers and creators],” Graham continued. “They’re all over the place with their sizes and their proportions and how they look and how they’re relatable. And to me, that’s the coolest part about all of this.”
She added, “Seeing that these girls, who were raised on social media at such a young age are now coming in and they have a platform to say to the younger generation, ‘Be yourself, be who you want to be. If you have cellulite, who cares?'”
Despite the challenges, she knows the value of staying true to her message.
Ashley Graham wore a black set with wings on the runway last year at Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show.(Gilbert Flores/Variety via Getty Images)
“It’s incredibly important to continue to advocate for women of all shapes, all sizes, and all backgrounds to have clothes that fit … to have people who don’t have confidence, have confidence in themselves,” Graham said of her latest plus-size JCPenney collaboration.
“I also don’t think that my community is just curvy women. I think it’s all kinds of women because, really, confidence at the end of the day, it doesn’t discriminate.”
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