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Hey, everybody, it's Ian and Mike, the hosts of How to Do Everything. That's the show where we take your questions and find overqualified experts to answer them. Alex asked us to write his out-of-office email message. But we don't know how to write, so we called up U.S. Poet Laureate Adilimon. Is this National Public Radio? Sort of. Technically, yes. Season two just dropped.

Listen to the How to Do Everything podcast from NPR. Live from NPR News, I'm Lakshmi Singh. The FBI has released photos of a person of interest in the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk yesterday at Utah Valley University. Meanwhile, a source tells NPR that Vice President J.D. Vance will accompany Kirk's casket and family on Air Force 2 from Utah to Arizona, where the group Kirk co-founded, Turning Point USA, is headquartered. Kirk was 18 when he co-founded the nonprofit to educate young people about conservative principles and politics. And in the years since, it has become an integral part of the GOP. Kirk's credited with helping President Trump get elected to a second term with his impact among Gen Z voters. And Pierre Steven Fowler has more.

Kirk and Turning Point were the smashmouth front line on the Republican Party's culture war. And at times he did weather controversy. He courted far right figures on his podcast and made. comments denigrating transgender people, vaccines, the 2020 election, and so much more. He also delivered a made-for-social media rebuke of President Biden's economic vision at last year's Republican National Convention. He was close with President Trump and actually remained one of the president's advisors and figures who stayed by his side when Trump was out of power. NPR Stephen Fowler. The House Appropriations Committee has voted to advance a government

funding bill with a Republican proposal to alter a special set of numbers from the upcoming 20-30 census. Here's NPR's Hansi Lo Wong. How many congressional house seats and electoral college votes each gets for a decade is determined using a key set of census results. The 14th Amendment says those results must include the, quote, whole number of persons in each state. But the Republican-controlled House Appropriations Committee has advanced a funding bill for the Census Bureau that calls for excluding people living in the states without legal status. GOP lawmakers have introduced four other similar bills this year. If any of them become law, they would likely be challenged in Court. Last month on social media, President Trump put out his own call to alter census apportionment

counts. He came in the middle of his push for new congressional district maps to help Republicans keep control of the House after next year's midterm election. Onzi Luong, NPR News. New research shows an additional 2 million or more people could die from tuberculosis by the end of the decade if U.S. foreign aid is not restored. NPR's Jonathan Lambert reports a study also suggest new sources of funding for TB control could bring that number down. Tuberculosis kills more people than any other infectious disease. Many of these deaths occur in lower-income countries, where the U.S. has played an outsized role in fighting the disease, for instance, by funding expansions in treatment and testing. But the Trump administration ended much of that funding. New research in the journal PLOS Global

Public Health estimates that if funding isn't restored, more than 10 million additional cases could pop up in the most affected countries by 2030. If funding comes back quickly, that projection goes down to about 600,000. Jonathan Lambert, NPR News. It's NPR. More than 300 South Korean workers who were detained in an immigration operation at a Hyundai battery plant in Georgia last week are due to arrive back in their home country in the coming hours. The South Korean nationals were arrested along with 10 people from China, three from Japan,

and one individual from Indonesia. The head of South Korea, who recently visited the White House, said the immigration raid may now make South Korean companies more reluctant to invest in the United States. British Prime Minister Kirstarmer has fired his ambassador to Washington over links to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. And PR's Lauren Freire has more from London. Even after Jeffrey Epstein was indicted, Peter Mandelson, then a top center-left British politician, wrote him a 2000. and eight emails saying, quote, your friends stay with you and love you. Photos have also emerged of Mandelson in a bathrobe at Epstein's home and a birthday message in which Mandelson called Epstein his best pal.

The British Foreign Office says emails show the extent of Mandelson's relationship with the late sex offender was materially different than what was known at the time he was appointed as ambassador. Mandelson's sacking complicates Starmer's efforts to build bridges with the Trump administration. Just days before the U.S. President comes here for a state visit. Lauren Friar, NPR News, London. U.S. stocks are trading higher this hour with the Dow up 585 points or more than 1% at 46,079. I'm Lakshmi Singh, NPR News. A good internet domain name can be worth millions.

Think apple.com or zoom.com. So what is up with the guy who owns milk.com? I happened to like chocolate milk, you know, and so he started calling me Milk Boy. He's like, hey, milk boy, how's it going? Milk Boy. Yeah, Milk Boy. On the latest Planet Money podcast, the strange economics of million-dollar domain names.