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appeared in the Washington Post Monday, speaking to reporters at Joint Base Andrews,

following a trip to Ohio. Trump said he was following the secret services recommendation

when he took a separate plane to leave Turkey following last month's NATO summit. Here's NPR's Tamarkees. He had flown there on the new Katari Air Force one, which is luxurious, but was rushed into a service and doesn't have all the security features of the older purpose-built Air Force ones.

Nid-trip hostilities with Iran flared back up that raised the threat level. So just before he was supposed to leave Trump announced he was sending the new Air Force one ahead. So US troops at a base in the UK could admire it. President Trump boarded the old Air Force one, waived from the top of the stairs as usual. The Washington Post reports he was then smuggled off the plane in a catering truck.

Trump on a separate plane Air Force one was essentially a decoy, leaving White House official security and support staff and reporters vulnerable. Many public health experts are worried that President Trump's call to change childhood vaccinations will unnecessarily confuse and frightened parents. NPR's Rob Stein has more.

President Trump wants to cut the number of vaccinations children get and space out the shots they do receive. And I've actually an activist, they're welcoming Trump's executive order calling for that, but most medical experts are denouncing it. And while the President's order won't change anything right away, Dr. Aaron Milstone from the American Academy of Pediatrics says it can still be harmful.

The most tangible thing that will come out of the announcement is confusion and confusion amongst parents are going to lead to delaying vaccination. They think a few are kids getting vaccinated and more kids getting sick from infections like measles and wooping golf, Rob Stein and Pyrenees.

The Western U.S. more than six million acres burned by wildfires so far this year. Fire

managers warning the traditional summer fire season barely halfway through. Here's NPR's Kirk's sickler. Half of the some 100 out of control wildfires in the U.S. right now are burning in the northwest. The top priority for firefighters are two 100,000 acre plus fires in Oregon in Washington. Washington's Public Lands Commissioner Dave up the Grove says crews are

making progress in Spokane where whole neighborhoods were levelled last week.

We have a long way to go. That's why I need your help. Don't be the spark that starts

the next fire. Please follow the burn bands. Please be extra careful with anything that could cause a spark. The wildfires in the northwest are believed to have largely been ignited by lightning, except authorities have arrested a man suspected of arson in connection with Spokane's most destructive wildfire. Kirk's sickler and Pyrenees. This is NPR news. One of the more closely watched races among Tuesday's primaries in six

states was in South Carolina. Darling Graham has advanced to a runoff. Graham was appointed to fill out the rest of her late brother Lindsey Graham's term and when Alfaise Congressman Ralph Norman in the runoff for the Republican nomination scheduled for August 25th, primary voters also went to the polls in Alabama, Connecticut, Minnesota for Montenewis, Wisconsin. Russia has released a former U.S. Marine from jail after four years, supporters of Robert

Gilman say he was near death and will have a long road to recovery as NPR's Michelle Calamand reports. The Trump administration says Gilman was released on humanitarian grounds and the U.S. made no concessions to Russia. Gilman had been jailed on disputed charges of assaulting a police officer in recent weeks. The 32-year-old was reported to be in a catatonic state, says Cure and Ramsey, a former FBI official who has been working on

the case for a group called Global Reach. I would still say he's not ambulatory. He's not walking around with any ease, but he is a verbal. I mean, he's able to be verbally responsible, at least minimally. President Trump says he spoke by phone to Gilman whose one request was for a cheeseburger. The former Marine will be treated at a special medical facility in Texas. Michelle Calamand and PR news the State Department.

The financial markets in Asia edging higher after Wall Street slipped today. The S&P 500

fell three tenths of a percent of the second modest drops in setting it's all time high

at the end of last week. This is NPR News Attention, a PSA from SureWave and PR Science

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