Plus: 🎞️ Hot summer movies | Friday, May 24, 2024
| | | | | | | Presented By the Healthcare Distribution Alliance | | | | Axios PM | | By Mike Allen · May 24, 2024 | | 🏖️ Happy getaway Friday! Smart Brevity™ count: 669 words, a 2½-min. read. Thanks to Zachary Basu for orchestrating and Sheryl Miller for copy editing. | | | | | | 1 big thing — Scoop: Schwarzman backs Trump | | Stephen Schwarzman is interviewed in Tokyo in March. Photo: Noriko Hayashi/Bloomberg via Getty Images Stephen A. Schwarzman — chairman, CEO and co-founder of Blackstone, the private equity and real estate giant — tells Axios he will support Donald Trump as a "vote for change." - Schwarzman said he plans to donate to Trump and various Republican Senate candidates.
Why it matters: The endorsement gives Trump access to a potent network of Republican donors Schwarzman has cultivated. Trump also could get a new look from some business leaders who have been reluctant to back him. Schwarzman, a billionaire and lifelong moderate Republican, was one of Trump's most visible business supporters when he was in the White House. - But ahead of this year's GOP primaries, Schwarzman called for "a new generation of leaders." Schwarzman wound up not backing a primary candidate.
Axios is told Schwarzman's concern about rising antisemitism sped his decision to re-embrace Trump, along with concerns about President Biden's policies. - "The dramatic rise of antisemitism has led me to focus on the consequences of upcoming elections with greater urgency," he says in a statement to Axios.
- "I share the concern of most Americans that our economic, immigration and foreign policies are taking the country in the wrong direction. For these reasons, I am planning to vote for change and support Donald Trump for President. In addition, I will be supporting Republican Senate candidates and other Republicans up and down the ticket."
Keep reading. |     | | | | | | 2. 🇺🇳 ICJ orders Israel to halt Rafah offensive | | Palestinians grab aid from a truck delivered through a U.S.-built pier in Gaza. Photo: Majdi Fathi/NurPhoto via Getty Images The International Court of Justice ruled that Israel "must immediately halt" its military operation in Rafah — the Hague-based court's first order about the war in Gaza, Axios' Barak Ravid reports. - Why it matters: The court has no way of enforcing its orders, but the ruling is the latest sign of mounting international pressure on Israel to end the war.
Israel's government remains defiant about continuing the war, but pledged in a statement to "act, in full compliance with the law, to reduce as much as possible the harm caused to the civilian population in Gaza." - Earlier today, the Israel Defense Forces announced it had recovered the bodies of three more hostages held by Hamas. 125 are still suspected to be in captivity.
Keep reading. ... Egypt agrees to lift aid pause. | | | | | | | | A message from the Healthcare Distribution Alliance | | The logistics experts of health care | | |  | | | | Distributors work hard to ensure medicines reach pharmacies and hospitals — from the biggest cities to the smallest towns. Learn more about how the industry gets medicines to patients and supports providers on the front lines to ultimately foster a more resilient supply chain. | | | | | | 3. ⚡ Catch up quick |  | | | Movie poster for "Super Size Me," via IMDB. | | | - 🍔 Documentary filmmaker Morgan Spurlock — whose 2004 film "Super Size Me" tracked the physical and mental effects of eating nothing but McDonald's for 30 days — died at 53 of complications of cancer. N.Y. Times obituary (gift link).
- 🇷🇺 Vladimir Putin is ready to halt the war in Ukraine with a negotiated ceasefire that recognizes the current battlefield lines, four Russian sources told Reuters, saying he is prepared to fight on if Kyiv and the West don't respond. Go deeper.
| | | | | | | | 4. 🎥 1 for the road: Hot summer movies | Coming July 26: Ryan Reynolds (left) as Deadpool/Wade Wilson and Hugh Jackman as Wolverine/Logan in " Deadpool & Wolverine." Image: 20th Century Studios/Marvel Studios/AP "Barbenheimer" is an impossible act to follow — especially for a Hollywood that's entering the heart of the summer movie season with fewer superheroes and a landscape vastly altered by the strikes. - Why it matters: Hollywood is being forced to chart a new direction after the strikes pushed "Mission: Impossible 8," "Captain America: Brave New World" and "Thunderbolts" to 2025, AP reports.
Coming June 14: In " Inside Out 2." Photo: Disney/Pixar/AP This summer should have 32 wide releases and over 40 movies opening in 500+ theaters. Only one, "Deadpool & Wolverine," is a Marvel movie. And it's the only superhero movie until the "Joker" sequel in October. - Things kicked off in theaters this month with Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt's "The Fall Guy" and "Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes."
- June will begin with the fourth installment of "Bad Boys" and family-friendly "Inside Out 2," before the highly anticipated premiere of "The Bikeriders" starring Austin Butler.
Coming July 19: " Twisters." Photo: Universal Pictures/AP July will bring the space-race rom-com "Fly Me to the Moon," "Twisters" and "Deadpool & Wolverine." - August has "Alien: Romulus" and the thrillers "Cuckoo" and "Trap," the latest twist-filled offering from M. Night Shyamalan.
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