NPR News: 05-04-2026 3AM EDT
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Why is Rudy Giuliani hospitalized and what is his condition?
A spokesman for Rudy Giuliani says the former New York City mayor has been hospitalized. Bruce Convisor reports from New York.
Giuliani is in critical but stable condition, according to his spokesman. But why exactly the former mayor is in the hospital is unclear. Also left unsaid is when he entered the hospital and what his prognosis is. Giuliani's eight-year stint as mayor of the largest city in the country was punctuated by the al-Qaeda terror attack on New York's World Trade Center in 2001. He subsequently launched an ill-fated bid for president and eventually became a political attack dog for Donald Trump. He went after Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential campaign, and four years later he led the public relations blitz asserting that the 2020 election had been stolen. For NPR News, I'm Bruce Convisor in New York.
AAA says the price of gasoline surged by more than 30 cents a gallon this last week. The national average is now $4.44 a gallon. The price of diesel used in trucking and rail climbed 18 cents. It is now at $5.64 a gallon. Kevin Book is an oil industry analyst with Clearview Energy Partners. He doubts the price of gasoline or any other oil-related product will be coming down, even if the Strait of Hormuz is reopen soon.
We may be weeks or even months, depending on how long the strait stays closed, from the peak of prices from this crisis. And then from there, we could be many months longer still for the ships that are trapped to get free, for the facilities that are damaged to be repaired, and for that matter, for the inventories to be replenished before we see something like a price we previously thought as normal.
President Trump said the U.S. military Monday will begin to assist ships transiting through the Strait of Hormuz. The U.S. attorney for Washington, D.C., Jeanine Pirro, says a buckshot pellet from the shotgun used in the White House correspondent's dinner attack has been recovered from the bulletproof vest of a Secret Service agent who was shot. Rob Stein has more.
Appearing on CNN, Pirro said a pellet that came from the suspect's shotgun was found in the fiber of the vest that saved the agent's life.
He hit at that Secret Service agent. He had every intention to kill him and anyone who got on his way to killing the President of the United States.
The 31-year-old suspect, Cole Thomas Allen of Torrance, California, has been charged with attempted assassination, transporting firearms across state lines, and discharging a firearm during a violent crime. Allen could face additional charges. Rob Stein, NPR News.
At least 10 people have been injured and are hospitalized after a mass shooting near Arcadia Lake, Oklahoma, Sunday night. Police say the violence erupted at a party involving a large group of people. The investigation is ongoing. This is NPR News. The FIFA World Cup takes place across the United States, Canada, and Mexico this summer, and there's a lot for fans to look forward to. But as NPR's Rafael Nam reports, some are saying they're going to stay home.
Ty Mulligani in Alabama was excited at first. He was hoping to take his family to see the U.S. national team. Then he saw the high ticket prices and how much hotels and flights would cost.
That was really what started this kind of big sigh of maybe this isn't going to work out the way I hoped it would.
Some fans overseas also say they are against some of the Trump administration policies and will not come as a result. FIFA and the White House say the World Cup will be a big success. But the hotel industry saying bookings so far in the U.S. are not as high as they had expected. And that's raising concerns with only weeks to go before the tournament. Rafael Nam, NPR News.
As many as 2,000 beagles, which were removed from a Wisconsin dog breeder and a research business, are being prepared to be adopted. Several hundred dogs received exams from veterinarians and are now being transported to animal welfare groups to find them permanent homes.
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