Start your week smart: Israeli war ultimatum, Paul Pelosi’s attacker, Dow milestone, Rudy Giuliani served, Alice Stewart
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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.
Speaker Mike Johnson is a political survivor, weathering crisis after crisis since his unlikely ascent two years ago.
Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Elena Kagan are well matched, rhetorically forceful opposites. And they have been clashing for more than a decade over an increasingly relevant question of presidential power: How easy should it be for the president to fire the heads of independent agencies?
The Army gynecologist described in a recent lawsuit as a “predator in uniform” is now being held in the Bell County Jail in Texas, “after apparently violating conditions of liberty imposed by his commander,” according to an Army spokesperson.
Brian Walshe on Thursday came face-to-face for the first time with the man who had been having an affair with his wife before her death, as he took the stand to testify in Walshe’s murder trial.
The Supreme Court on Thursday allowed Texas to use a congressional map that will boost President Donald Trump’s effort to keep Republicans in control of Congress, blocking a lower court decision that found the new boundaries were likely unconstitutional because they were drawn based on race.
The US military carried out a strike Thursday on a suspected drug boat in the Eastern Pacific, killing four people on board, according to a social media post from US Southern Command.
A grand jury voted against indicting New York Attorney General Letitia James after being asked to look at the mortgage fraud case against her a second time, according to multiple people familiar with the development Thursday.
National Guard troops deployed to Washington, DC, can remain there for now, after a federal appeals court on Thursday temporarily froze a judge’s ruling that would have soon required them to leave the city’s streets.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s bad week just got worse. That’s after the long-awaited release Thursday of an inspector general’s report on his sharing of highly sensitive military attack plans on the unclassified app Signal earlier this year.
President Donald Trump has hired a new architect for the White House ballroom amid disputes between the president and his architect originally contracted to complete the project, several sources have told CNN.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth risked compromising sensitive military information that could have endangered US troops through his use of Signal to discuss attack plans, a Pentagon watchdog said in an unclassified report released Thursday. It also details how Hegseth declined to cooperate with the probe.
If nothing else, the controversy over the Trump administration’s second strike on an alleged drug boat in the Caribbean has surfaced a long-overdue debate about its already legally dubious first strikes.
Two top House lawmakers emerged divided along party lines after a private briefing with the military official who oversaw September’s attack on an alleged drug vessel that included a so-called double-tap strike that killed surviving crew members, with a top Democrat calling video of the incident that was shared as part of the briefing “one of the most troubling things” he has seen as a lawmaker.