Start your week smart: Israeli war ultimatum, Paul Pelosi’s attacker, Dow milestone, Rudy Giuliani served, Alice Stewart | CNN (2024)

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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 toStart Your Week Smart.

The weekend that was

• 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.

The week ahead

Monday
Donald 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.

Tuesday
Georgia, 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.

Friday
Friday 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.

Saturday
Will the third time be the charm for Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft? A May 17 launch was scrubbed after teams found a small helium leak in the Starliner’s service module. The original May 6 launch of the mission, dubbed the Crew Flight Test, was aborted when engineers found an issue and stopped the countdown. If successful, the May 25 launch could be the final major milestone before NASA deems Boeing’s spacecraft ready for routine operations as part of the federal agency’s Commercial Crew Program.

President Biden will deliver the commencement address at the United States Military Academy at West Point.

One Thing: Cohen’s credibility
In this week’s “One Thing” podcast, CNN’s Kara Scannell tells us what she saw in the courtroom as Michael Cohen testified in Trump’s New York criminal hush money trial. Listen here.

Photos of the week

A person watches the northern lights from atop a rock formation near Sheffield, England, on Saturday, May 11.

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An English co*cker spaniel looks over a fence in New York during the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show on Tuesday, May 14. See the best photos from the event.

Explosive charges are set off at a portion of the collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore on Monday, May 13. The charges helped demolish a portion of the bridge wreckage that was resting on the trapped cargo ship Dali. The move was meant to help free the vessel nearly seven weeks after it struck the bridge and caused the span to collapse.

Britain's King Charles III unveils an official portrait of himself at London's Buckingham Palace on Tuesday, May 14. The portrait, by artist Jonathan Yeo, is the King's first official portrait since his coronation. And with its lurid red brushstrokes, it is proving to be divisive.

Liudmila, 85, looks though the window of a bus after being evacuated from Vovchansk, Ukraine, on Sunday, May 12. Her husband was killed in their house after a Russian airstrike on the city.

Graduates from the UC Berkeley School of Law wear T-shirts spelling out "UC DIVEST" at the school's commencement in Berkeley, California, on Friday, May 10. College campuses across the country have been thrown into disarray by pro-Palestinian demonstrations in recent weeks. While the demands among protesters vary at each university, nearly all the demonstrations have called for universities to divest from Israel in some form.

Plebes from the US Naval Academy build a human pyramid around the Herndon Monument in Annapolis, Maryland, on Wednesday, May 15. It's an annual tradition for the first-year students to climb the monument, coated with a thick layer of vegetable shortening, to retrieve the Plebian Sailor's hat on top and replace it with an officer's hat.

Security officers move Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico into a car after he was shot five times during an assassination attempt in Handlová, Slovakia, on Wednesday, May 15. Fico was conscious and able to speak on Thursday afternoon, but he was still in serious condition, according to Slovakian President-elect Peter Pellegrini. Police have charged a man with attempted murder.

Villagers work in a terraced field in Shiyuan, a village in Bijie, China, on Monday, May 13.

Former US President Donald Trump looks out at people on the beach as he flies to a rally in Wildwood, New Jersey, on Saturday, May 11. Trump held a beachfront rally on the Jersey Shore, returning to the campaign trail after an explosive week of testimony in his hush money trial in New York.

The Russian Knights aerobatic team flies over a monument of Russian poet Alexander Pushkin during a Victory Day parade in Moscow on Thursday, May 9. Victory Day marks the anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany in World War II.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, right, performs Neil Young's "Rockin' in the Free World" with Ukrainian band 19.99 at a bar in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Tuesday, May 14. During his surprise trip to the Ukrainian capital, Blinken met with President Volodymyr Zelensky to discuss battlefield updates and the importance of newly arrived US aid.

Houses sit on the slopes of the Jalousie neighborhood in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on Monday, May 13. For more than two months, Port-au-Prince has been cut off from the world, its international seaport and airport shuttered following an explosion of gang attacks in late February.

NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured this image of a solar flare on Friday, May 10. Solar flares usually take place in active regions of the sun that include the presence of strong magnetic fields.

Swiss singer Nemo celebrates on stage after winning the Eurovision Song Contest on Saturday, May 11. Nemo won over crowds with a stunning rendition of "The Code," a genre-bending anthem about their journey toward accepting their nonbinary identity.

Cars are surrounded by flooded streets after heavy rain in Canoas, Brazil, on Thursday, May 9. Dozens of people have died in the heavy rains and floods that have torn through the state of Rio Grande do Sul.

A pelican is silhouetted by the afternoon sunshine as it stands in London's St. James's Park on Friday, May 10.

Actress Anya Taylor-Joy poses on the red carpet at the Cannes Film Festival in France on Wednesday, May 15. She stars in "Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga," which was making its premiere at the festival. See the best fashion from Cannes.

Michael Cohen, Donald Trump's former personal attorney, leaves his apartment building in New York on his way to Manhattan criminal court on Monday, May 13. Cohen has been testifying this week in Trump's hush money trial. Cohen says Trump directed him to pay hush money to Stormy Daniels in the final days of the 2016 presidential campaign. Trump denies the allegations.

Palestinians sit at their house in Khan Younis, Gaza, on Tuesday, May 14. It had been destroyed in an Israeli strike. Months of fierce fighting in Khan Younis have left much of the city in ruins.

Activity from the Villarrica volcano is seen from Pucón, Chile, on Sunday, May 12.

Manchester United forward Lucía García kisses the trophy after her club won the Women's FA Cup for the first time in its history on Sunday, May 12. United defeated Tottenham Hotspur 4-0 at London's Wembley Stadium.

This aerial photo, taken on Monday, May 13, shows new cars waiting to be transported from a port in Nanjing, China.

Men shovel mud from a house on Saturday, May 11, after flash floods in Afghanistan's Baghlan province. At least 300 people have died in flash flooding that has ravaged northern Afghanistan in recent days, the World Food Programme said on Sunday.

Singer Taylor Swift performs in Paris during a stop on her "Eras Tour" on Friday, May 10.

Several allies of former US President Donald Trump — including House Speaker Mike Johnson, center — watch Trump speak to reporters outside his hush money trial in New York on Tuesday, May 14. With Johnson, from left, are US Rep. Byron Donalds, North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum, former presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy and US Rep. Cory Mills.

A man lies on the ground as he watches his burning house, which was destroyed by a Russian airstrike in Vovchansk, Ukraine, on Saturday, May 11.

This photo, taken with a drone, shows surfers at Fistral Beach in Newquay, England, on Thursday, May 9.

Mariana, mother of late Ukrainian serviceman Nazary Gryntsevych, gives a final touch to his coffin during his funeral in Vinnytsia, Ukraine, on Friday, May 10. See last week in 32 photos.

The week in 29 photos

Check out more imagesfrom the week that was, curated by CNN Photos.

What’s happening in entertainment

In theaters
“Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga” roars onto the big screen Friday. Anya Taylor-Joy stars as the titular character in the origin story of the renegade warrior, a roleplayedby Charlize Theron in 2015’s “Mad Max: Fury Road.” Chris Hemsworth trades in Thor’s hammer for a prosthetic nose to play Dr. Dementus, the villain in this prequel, which again is directed by George Miller. (“Furiosa” is from Warner Bros. Pictures, which, like CNN, is part of Warner Bros. Discovery.)

“The Garfield Movie” stands as proof that some cats have far more than nine lives. Since hitting the comics page of newspapers nationwide in 1978, “Garfield” has become an industry, with licensing deals on stuffed toys, greeting cards, mugs and car window stickers. “The Garfield Movie” features the voices of Chris Pratt, Samuel L. Jackson and Hannah Waddingham. Much lasagna will be consumed.

What’s happening in sports

At a glance …
The final round of the PGA Championship gets underway this morning, with Collin Morikawa and Xander Schauffele tied atop the leaderboard at 15 under par. Shane Lowry equaled the lowest score ever carded at a men’s major with a spectacular nine-under 62. The tournament got off to a blistering start on Thursday whenSchauffele shot 62 to take the early lead and world No. 1 Scottie Scheffler eagled the first hole in his first tournament since becoming a father. The following morning, though, Scheffler was arrested and charged with a felony and other counts after a traffic incident outside the golf course that he said in a statement was a “big misunderstanding” during a “very chaotic situation.” After being released, Scheffler calmly carded a 66.

The NBA Playoffs are inching closer to the Eastern and Western conference finals, with the Boston Celtics awaiting the winner of today’s Game 7 matchup between the Indiana Pacers and the New York Knicks.In the West, Denver and Minnesota square off tonight in Game 7 of their series. The winner will face the Dallas Mavericks.

We all know top-tier professional athletes make a lot of money, but if you ever wondered just how much, we’ve got you covered. According to Forbes’ list of the world’s highest-paid athletes, soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo earned $260 million over the last 12 months — $200 million from his club contract and $60 million in off-field earnings. Ronaldo is followed by golfer Jon Rahm, who joined the Saudi-backed LIV Golf Tour ina lucrative three-year dealin December, and Inter Miami forwardLionel Messi.

Speaking of soccer — or football as most of the world calls it — the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution this month proclaiming May 25 as World Football Day. Saturday will mark the 100th anniversary of the first international football tournament in history with the representation of all regions, which took place on May 25, 1924, during the Summer Olympics in Paris.

In the NHL playoffs, the Florida Panthers eliminated the Boston Bruins to advance to the Eastern Conference finals against the New York Rangers. In the West, Edmonton and Vancouver are headed to a decisive Game 7 on Monday night. The winner will play Dallas.

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Quiz time!

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Play me off …

‘Stray Cat Strut’
As a nod to the upcoming “Garfield” movie, here’s a song about another “black and orange stray cat” … (Click here to view)