In a step toward Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s goal of upending vaccine policy, the committee decided to delay the shots for babies of mothers who test negative for the virus, reversing longstanding guidance.

America’s goal should be “to help Europe correct its current trajectory,” the administration said in its new National Security Strategy.

Boris Pistorius, Germany’s defense minister, is pushing to expand its military in case tensions with Russia escalate. That’s tricky in a country where the Nazi era casts a long shadow.