What we covered here
• Ceremony at Windsor: US President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump spent the day at Windsor Castle on their historic second state visit to Britain, which Trump hailed as “one of the highest honors of my life” during a banquet toast.
• State banquet: The day’s events are wrapping with a state banquet, where Trump and King Charles III are being joined by a string of British politicians and the CEOs of US tech giants, including Sam Altman of OpenAI and Jensen Huang of NVIDIA.
• Meanwhile in DC: FBI Director Kash Patel was grilled by lawmakers about the Justice Department’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files. The ousted former director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention testified that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. put politics before public health. And the Federal Reserve announced its first rate cut in nine months.