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President Trump is due back at the White House this evening after receiving the royal

tribute during his state visit to the U.K. He's flying back aboard Air Force One after meeting today with British Prime Minister Kirst Starmor.

Michelle Kellerman covers the State Department for NPR and assesses the state of the special relationship between the U.S. and the U.K.

President Trump has a fondness for the Brits.

His mother came from Scotland, and he talks about that a lot.

But, you know, they're treating the Brits like they are other European countries.

It's all about deal-making transactional diplomacy.

And not so much about these big picture issues of what the world looked like after World War II and this Special

Alliance. It's gotten down to kind of more transactional diplomacy.

The advisory panel handpicked by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is recommending new

restrictions on the

combination shot that protects against chicken, pox, measles, mumps, and rubella, voting 8 to 3 today

against administering the shots to kids younger than four years old. The recommendation now goes to the

CDC director tomorrow. The panel considers hepatitis B shots and the COVID-19 vaccine.

Experts say foreign governments are trying to influence the conversation around Charlie Kirk's

assassination last week, but NPR's Jeff Brumfield reports they're having trouble spreading that message.

Monitoring foreign paid influencers is the job of Darren Linville. He's a professor at Clemson University. He says after Charlie Kirk's death, foreign government influencers have absolutely been talking, but amid a flood of social media postings, the foreign influence can't really break through. He wishes he could blame someone else for the division he's seeing online, but... It's just us. The call is coming from inside the house.

Meanwhile, authoritarian governments are spinning conspiracies around the shooting for audiences at home.

That's according to a study by Media Watchdog News Guard.

Elements of Russian state media, for example, are blaming Ukraine for Kirk's death.

Jeff Brumfield, NPR News.

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