Start your week smart: Israeli war ultimatum, Paul Pelosi’s attacker, Dow milestone, Rudy Giuliani served, Alice Stewart
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CNN’s 5 Things Sunday brings you the news you need to start your week smart.
The month of May can be a busy one for many people, and parents in particular. There’s Mother’s Day, the end of the school year and all the related activities encroaching on work and what little free time exists. “Maycember” is the term coined to encapsulate the chaos, and we have a few tips for surviving the mayhem. Here’s what else you need to know to Start Your Week Smart. • Israeli war cabinet divisions broke out into the open after Benny Gantz demanded that the cabinet lay out a plan for the war against Hamas by June 8, threatening to withdraw from the government if his demands are not met. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected the ultimatum. Follow live updates.• A federal judge will reopen the sentencing in the case against David DePape, the man convicted of the 2022 attack on Nancy Pelosi’s husband, Paul, because he did not get a chance to speak during his sentencing hearing. DePape was sentenced to 30 years for assault and 20 for attempted kidnapping.• The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed above the 40,000 mark Friday for the first time in its 139-year history. The blue-chip index initially crossed the key threshold the day before but ended lower.• Rudy Giuliani was served with notice of his indictment related to an alleged scheme to overturn the 2020 election results in Arizona, according to Arizona’s attorney general. A GOP operative told CNN she was hosting Giuliani’s 80th birthday party in Florida when the former New York City mayor was served.• Alice Stewart, a veteran political adviser and CNN political commentator who worked on several GOP presidential campaigns, has died. She was 58. MondayDonald Trump’s former attorney Michael Cohen goes back on the stand for what will likely be another bruising day of cross-examination in Trump’s hush money trial. Court was not in session Friday so Trump could attend his son Barron’s high school graduation. Closing arguments could begin as early as Tuesday. TuesdayGeorgia, Idaho, Kentucky and Oregon will hold their primaries, and voters in California’s 20th Congressional District will head to the polls in a special runoff election to fill the vacant seat in Congress left by former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy. FridayFriday is the traditional getaway day for Memorial Day weekend, although many hit the road a day earlier. AAA projects 38.4 million people will travel by car over Memorial Day weekend, the highest number for that holiday since AAA began tracking in 2000.
President Joe Biden warned against a streak of “semi-isolationism” in the US as he stressed the importance of alliances during a symbolic visit to the Aisne-Marne American Cemetery on Sunday, honoring the thousands of Americans who died in World War I at a site former President Donald Trump skipped during a 2018 visit to Paris.
Looking to shore up Latino votes in Nevada and Arizona for his reelection campaign, President Joe Biden is on the verge of soon following up last week’s executive action aimed at curbing border crossings with another move focused on providing legal status for long-term undocumented immigrants married to American citizens and without criminal records.