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By Issy Ronald, Lex Harvey, CNN

(CNN) — Three people aboard the cruise ship hit by a hantavirus outbreak will be evacuated in the coming hours, Cape Verde’s health ministry said.

Medical personnel from the country who boarded the ship have assessed that all three are clinically stable. Cape Verde authorities said two air ambulances would help with the evacuations, one of which is already in the country.

The news comes after the World Health Organization (WHO) said some human-to-human transmission may have occurred among people on board the ship. Three people have died and several others fallen ill.

“We do know that some of the cases had very close contact with each other and certainly human-to-human transmission can’t be ruled out so as a precaution this is what we are assuming,” Dr. Maria Van Kerkhove, WHO’s director for epidemic and pandemic preparedness and prevention, told reporters.

However, health authorities have emphasized that the outbreak does not pose a wider public health risk.

“The risk to the general public is low,” Van Kerkhove said, outlining that any suspected human-to-human transmission would have occurred between very close contacts like married couples. “This is not a virus that spreads like flu or like COVID. It’s quite different.”

Almost 150 people, including 17 Americans, remain stranded on the MV Hondius which is currently anchored off the coast of Praia, the capital of Cape Verde, an archipelago nation off Africa’s west coast.

The ship, operated by tour company Oceanwide Expeditions, left Ushuaia, Argentina last month on a voyage across the Atlantic Ocean, stopping off at some of the world’s most remote islands. But along the way, several passengers fell sick with a rapidly progressing respiratory illness, the company said.

Seven cases of hantavirus, a rare disease typically caused by contact with infected rodents’ urine, faeces or saliva, have been identified so far. Two of those are confirmed and five suspected, WHO said Monday.

A Dutch couple and German national have died while one British national remains in intensive care in South Africa, though Van Kerkhove said his condition is improving. Of the three people to be evacuated, one is “associated with” the German national, according to the tour operator.

What happens next?

Two air ambulances will evacuate the three individuals from Cape Verde according to the country’s health ministry and the tour operator.

A medical specialist is also expected to arrive to help passengers aboard the ship.

Once they have been evacuated and are in transit to the Netherlands, the plan is for the ship to sail to the Canary Islands, which will take three days of sailing, according to the tour operator. Spanish authorities will then conduct a full epidemiological investigation and full disinfectation, Van Kerkhove said. She later said the hope is for the ship to start moving to the next port by Tuesday night.

The Spanish health ministry said a doctor from the MV Hondius who is “in serious condition” would

By Eric Bradner, CNN

(CNN) — President Donald Trump vowed revenge when the Republican supermajority in the Indiana state Senate embarrassed him in December, voting down Trump’s demands to redraw the state’s congressional maps to help the party win two more seats.

In Tuesday’s primary, he got it.

At least five of the seven Trump-endorsed challengers defeated GOP incumbent state senators who broke with the president and voted against redistricting.

Those senators said at the time they were following the will of their constituents. But after millions of dollars in advertising and outsized attention on ordinarily low-key state legislative primary races, Tuesday served as a reminder that all politics, no matter how local, can be nationalized.

Prior to Election Day, Indiana Lt. Gov. Micah Beckwith — a staunch Trump supporter who has butted heads with Republican leadership in the state Senate, where he presides, and who campaigned with the challengers — had said the pro-Trump forces winning at least three races would make a statement.

“It’s better than I expected,” Beckwith said in an interview Tuesday night, as those challengers’ wins piled up.

“It was really that battle between the old-school Republicans of the Mitch Daniels, Mike Pence, George Bush era, versus Donald Trump and the ‘America First’ era,” he said, naming two of the state’s former Republican governors, along with the 43rd president. “And Indiana — at least the Republicans — are saying, we want to be the ‘America First’ party.”

It’s still Trump’s party

If the Indiana Senate’s rejection of Trump’s push for redistricting in December revealed that his influence has limits, the outcome of Tuesday night’s primaries in the Hoosier state demonstrated that — for Republican voters — it’s still Trump’s party.

Trump endorsed challengers to seven Republican incumbents who voted against redistricting. Shortly after 9 p.m. Eastern time Tuesday, CNN had projected five of them as winners, with one more too close to call. Only one incumbent Republican facing a Trump-backed challenger, Sen. Greg Goode of Terre Haute, was projected to win.

Sen. Spencer Deery, a West Lafayette Republican who was locked in a tight race with challenger Paula Copenhaver, said on CNN Tuesday that “the truth is I know that Trump doesn’t really have any idea who I am or any idea who my opponent is.”

Maybe so, but the president and his political allies flooded the ordinarily sleepy state legislative primaries — where the spending is typically in the tens of thousands and primary votes cast number about 10,000 to 12,000 — with millions of dollars in advertising casting the incumbents as disloyal to Trump and blaming them for voters’ various frustrations, particularly property taxes.

Trump’s approval rating has slipped nationally, and his support among independents has evaporated. But very conservative voters — those who make up his base — are still with him. And they are the voters who decide contests like state Senate primaries in deep-red Indiana. That’s a reality Deery also acknowledged.

“Trump is perhaps not as popular in my district as he once was, but he is still overwhelmingly popular,” Deery said.

Skyrocketing spending in Indiana contests

In interviews across the state, Hoosier voters described being inundated with television and digital advertising and daily mailers from candidates and the outside groups supporting them. The numbers back that up.

The political adverti

By Holmes Lybrand, CNN

(CNN) — Thirteen members of Washington, DC’s Metropolitan Police Department have been placed on administrative leave and face possible termination following an internal investigation into allegations that crime data was manipulated to make the city appear safer.

President Donald Trump often pointed to reports of manipulated crime stats as one of the reasons he surged federal law enforcement resources to the nation’s capital last summer, including National Guard members who continue to patrol the city. He declared a “crime emergency” in the city and said in a Truth Social post last August that “D.C. gave Fake Crime numbers in order to create a false illusion of safety.”

Interim Police Chief Jeffery Carroll announced the conclusion of the internal investigation during a press conference Tuesday but declined to provide specifics about what was found.

“No one was fired,” Carroll said. “Some members were served with paperwork yesterday as it relates to being placed on administrative leave pending termination.”

Carroll added that some of the 13 officers “were already on administrative leave for other matters earlier.”

Carroll also insisted Tuesday that crime has gone down in the district.

“Let me be clear,” he said, “we have made meaningful progress over the last three years in reducing crime. Homicides, shootings and carjackings have fallen steadily since 2023.”

Carroll said the investigation was referred to the MPD by the DC US Attorney’s office earlier this year, which opened its own investigation into the crime data in the summer.

The Republican-led House Oversight Committee also opened a probe into DC’s crime stats, issuing a report late last year alleging that former DC Police Chief Pamela Smith pressured officers to manipulate crime data to create the appearance of a safer city.

After just two years as DC’s top cop, Smith resigned last December amid intense scrutiny over the crime stats, but she vehemently denied any wrongdoing.

In a fiery farewell speech, Smith said, “Let’s be really clear about one thing – never would I, never will I ever compromise my integrity for a few crime numbers.”

As the federal law enforcement surge took hold in the city last summer and Republicans cried foul over DC’s crime numbers, House Democrats fought back, issuing a rebuke of the committee’s report.

“From start to finish, it has been clear that Oversight Republicans’ failed investigation was an assault on reality at the behest of an unstable President angry at a police department for doing its job,” Democrats wrote. “The Trump Administration lied about crime in D.C. to justify illegally deploying troops and attempting to take control of MPD. Commanders uniformly testified that crime in D.C. has significantly decreased since 2023.”

Oversight Committee chair, GOP Rep. James Comer said in a statement Tuesday after the disciplinary action was announced, “Our work is not done. I expect to receive MPD’s internal report and all related documents to ensure crime data is reported accurately and that anyone responsible for manipulation is held accountable.”

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