Today's Top Headlines

Monday, May 4

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Jury selection is set to begin Monday in the trial of former Patriots star Stefon Diggs, as he faces accusations that he assaulted his personal chef.

The alleged incident happened in 2025, but the case was delayed for the Patriots’ playoff run.

Five months later, a trial will get underway in Dedham.

Former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani was hospitalized in “critical condition” on Sunday, according to his spokesperson and President Donald Trump, writing on social media.

“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,” Trump wrote in part on his Truth Social account.

“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,” spokeperson Ted Goodman wrote on X.

The United States on Monday kicked off an effort to “guide” stranded ships from the Iran-gripped Strait of Hormuz, as it tries to counter economic disruptions that outlasted the peak of fighting with no peace deal in sight.

A day after President Donald Trump announced what he called “Project Freedom,” the Joint Maritime Information Center said Monday that the U.S. had set up an “enhanced security area” south of typical shipping routes and urged mariners to coordinate closely with Omani authorities “due to anticipated high traffic volume.” The strait sits between Iranian and Omani territory.

The center warned that passing close to the usual routes, known as the traffic separation scheme, “should be considered extremely hazardous due the presence of mines that have not been fully surveyed and mitigated.”

Winds have turned around to southwest. That’s now scooped up warmer air and dropped it here. Wall-to-wall sunshine is the name of the game Monday. A few more clouds drift in later in the afternoon.It’s another windy one out there, though. Gusts could reach 40 mph later Monday afternoon. But because it’s a warm breeze, it’ll pump our temperatures up to nearly 70 degrees.

It’s even better for Tuesday. We’ll watch as top temperatures close in on 80 degrees. That means it’ll feel more like the end of June. Boston Logan hasn’t hit 80 degrees since last October. Does that change on Tuesday? Check back with us.

The wind is still a factor on Tuesday, with gusts once again, on the top end, around 40 mph.

President Donald Trump’s vow to shrink America’s military deployment in Germany has put a new spotlight on the U.S. role in Europe.

There are usually 80,000 to 100,000 troops on the continent, with more than 36,000 in Germany. The Pentagon announced Friday that it would remove 5,000 troops from Germany, and Trump said the next day that he would go “a lot further” than that.

The U.S. military presence is a legacy of World War II, when Americans helped stabilize and rebuild Europe, and the Cold War, when the troops served as a bulwark against Soviet expansion. More recently, the deployment has played a key role supporting operations in the Arctic, Africa and the Middle East including the current conflict with Iran.

Cole Tomas Allen, the California man charged with attempting to assassinate President Donald Trump at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner at a Washington, D.C. hotel one week ago, is no longer on suicide status, according to his attorneys.

The 31-year-old’s lawyers filed a motion in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on Saturday to have Allen released from suicide precautions, saying they violate his rights under the due process clause and that “he has exhibited no indications of suicidality.”

His defense team submitted a court filing Sunday afternoon to withdraw that request after learning Allen was no longer on suicide status, making the motion moot. In the latest filing, they also asked the judge to cancel a hearing that was slated for 9 a.m. Monday.