GEOFF BENNETT: In the day's other headlines: Maine Governor Janet dropped her Senate bid, an erase seen as a litmus test for which candidates can best help the Democrats in this year's midterms.

The two-term governor said that while she was eager to carry on the campaign, she simply does not have the financial resources to do so.

That leaves oyster farmer and political newcomer Graham Platner with a clear path to the Democratic nomination.

He's vowed to work with Mills in unseating the Republican incumbent.

GRAHAM PLATNER (D), Maine Senatorial Candidate: We need to beat Susan Collins.

That's what this project has been about since the beginning.

That is exactly what the governor got in it to do as well.

And I think we all at this moment need to come together and recognize that building power for working people across the state, that's how we're going to do it.

GEOFF BENNETT: The 41-year-old military veteran held a strong lead over mills and the lead-up to the June primary.

That's despite controversy over past online comments about women and a tattoo he has since covered widely seen as a Nazi symbol, though Platner says he was unaware until recently that the image had been associated with Nazi police.

Maine is a key state for the Democrats should they hope to retake control of the Senate this fall.

In Texas, officials at Camp Mystic are dropping plans to reopen this summer amid outrage by family members who lost loved ones in last year's flooding.

In a statement, camp leaders say they want to give families more time to grieve.

The decision comes just weeks before it was set to welcome hundreds of campers.

And it follows days of tense hearings in which state lawmakers grilled camp officials over their handling of the disaster; 25 campers and two teenage counselors were killed when a flood swept through the camp last July.

The camp's owner also died.

The head of the U.S.

Secret Service provided new details today about last weekend's shooting at the White House Correspondents' Dinner.

Director Sean Curran told FOX News that the officer who was injured in the attack was not hit by friendly fire, but, rather, was shot at point-blank range by the suspect.

Curran also said that same officer was the one who fired five rounds toward the suspect, though he did not hit him.

SEAN CURRAN, U.S.

Secret Service Director: That officer, while being shot, was in the process of falling down and was returning gunfire.

To be shot at is not a pleasant thing.

And to be able to actually return fire in that rate of speed is just remarkable.

GEOFF BENNETT: Meantime, the suspect appeared in a Washington, D.C., court today, where his lawyer said he would not contest the government's effort to keep him in federal custody ahead of trial.

President Trump says he's easing some tariffs on Scotch whiskey.

The decision was, as he put it, in honor of the king and queen of the United Kingdom, who wrapped up their state visit to the U.S.

today.

DONALD TRUMP, President of the United States: Great king.

QUESTION: What would you rate the visit?

DONALD TRUMP: The greatest king, in my book.

GEOFF BENNETT: On their fourth and final day, the royals returned to the White House to bid farewell to President Trump, who has hinted that the visit could help ease recent U.S.-U.K.

tensions.

Then the king and queen laid a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington, Virginia, and attended events in the fittingly named town of Front Royal.

The visit was meant to mark 250 years since America's independence from Great Britain.

This week, King Charles instead highlighted what he called the unbreakable bond between the two nations.

The U.S.

economy grew 2 percent in the first quarter of the year when compared to 2025.

Economists say business investment and government spending helped drive growth, though the impact of the war with Iran is likely to weigh on the economy moving forward.

Also today, a closely watched reading on inflation hit its highest level in almost three years last month, as gas prices soared.

Meantime, on Wall Street, stocks rallied today, despite the latest spike in oil prices.

The Dow Jones industrial average jumped nearly 800 points on the day.

The Nasdaq added more than 200 points.

The S&P 500 closed out its best month in more than five years.

And J. Craig Venter, the maverick scientist who played a critical role in sequencing the human genome, has died.

In 2000, his company Celera achieved the feat faster than the government-funded Human Genome Project, and Celera did it using Venter's very own genome.

The accomplishment was a major advancement in the understanding of human diseases and their origins.

In 2007, he told the "News Hour" about the benefits of his work at a time of public skepticism surrounding the study of genetics.

J. CRAIG VENTER, Scientist: It takes us in a step of public accessibility of this information, versus it only being in secret databases.

And it sends an important message to the public, you don't have to fear your genetic information.

GEOFF BENNETT: J. Craig Venter's namesake institute said he had recently been hospitalized for side effects from cancer treatment.

He was 79 years old.

And singer-songwriter David Allan Coe has died.

In the mid-1970s, Coe solidified his outlaw country image with songs like "You Never Even Called Me By My Name" and "Long Haired Redneck."

His music was inspired by his own checkered past, which included a stint in prison.

And some of his most well-known songs were actually recorded by other artists.

Johnny Paycheck turned Coe's "Take This Job and Shove It" into a blue-collar anthem in the late 1970s.

Coe himself appeared in a film of the same name and had minor roles IN a handful of others.

His representatives said Coe died yesterday but gave few other details.

David Allan Coe was 86 years old.

Still to come on the "News Hour": airlines under pressure amid rising fuel costs and a budget carrier bankruptcy; Germany builds up its military to prepare for a potential future without U.S.

support; and we report from Texas on how changes to SNAP benefits are affecting residents there.