MONDAY
It's shaping up to be another eventful week on Capitol Hill as GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene says she will force a vote over House Speaker Mike Johnson's ouster sometime this week, a move that comes after Democrats said they will vote to kill the effort and ensure Johnson doesn't lose his job. Many Republicans oppose the push to oust Johnson and do not want to see the House GOP Conference devolve into disarray as it did after former Speaker Kevin McCarthy was ousted in a historic and unprecedented vote last year.
After years of delays and setbacks, Boeing's Starliner spacecraft is scheduled to make its inaugural crewed launch. NASA hopes to launch astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore from Florida's Kennedy Space Center to the International Space Station, marking what could be a historic and long-awaited victory for the beleaguered Starliner program.
Columbia University, the site of a large pro-Palestinian protest and a campus building takeover that was cleared by police in riot gear last week, will announce the 2024 Pulitzer Prize winners and finalists via livestream. Each year, the Pulitzer Board awards prizes in 23 categories across journalism, books, drama and music.
The first Monday in May means it's time for the annual Met Gala, when celebrities, designers, athletes and politicians show off their themed costumes on the carpeted steps of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art. Learn more about this year's theme, "The Garden of Time."
And it's the beginning of National Nurses Week.
TUESDAY
President Joe Biden will deliver the keynote address at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum's Annual Days of Remembrance ceremony on Capitol Hill. He will also discuss the need to combat the "rising scourge of antisemitism" and his administration's work to implement the first National Strategy to Counter Antisemitism.
Apple will host an online event that it teased with the tagline "Let Loose." Given that the event's invitation shows a drawing of a hand holding an Apple Pencil, new iPads are likely in the offing.
Voters head to the polls in Indiana's primary elections.
WEDNESDAY
House Republicans are calling on National Public Radio CEO Katherine Maher to appear before a subcommittee hearing following a now-former NPR staffer's allegations of left-wing bias in the radio broadcaster's news coverage. Uri Berliner, who wrote a scathing online essay claiming NPR had "lost America's trust" by embracing a "progressive worldview," resigned in April. NPR's editor-in-chief and other staffers have pushed back against Berliner's characterization of the outlet. As to whether Maher will attend the hearing, information on NPR's website indicates that the outlet has a board of directors meeting all day on May 8.
FRIDAY
The Port of Baltimore plans to open a limited access channel at a depth of 45 feet following the expected removal of the cargo ship Dali, which crashed into the Francis Scott Key Bridge on March 26, crippling the structure and killing six workers repairing potholes on it. Closer to the Midwest than any other port on the East Coast, Baltimore is a major hub for vehicles, containers and commodities.
