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Emma Vanden Idy of Member Station KUNC reports he's also facing a federal hate crime charge. Investigators said 45-year-old Mohammed Sabri Saliman told them he had been planning the attack for a year, targeting quote, the Zionist group. He said he wanted them all to die and he would attack again if he could. Boulder County District Attorney Michael Doherty says the attack was quote, senseless and unjustified. To all the victims, their loved ones and to this community, I promise you that each one of us up here today will work tirelessly to ensure that justice is done and the defendant is held fully accountable.

Officials now say there were 12 victims. Boulder police are increasing security presence at events in the coming days. For NPR News, I'm Emma Vanden Heide in Denver. Officials in Salem, Oregon say five victims of a stabbing attack at a homeless shelter remain hospitalized, including two staff members. Seven others were injured in Sunday night's attack. Police arrested the suspect across the street from the shelter. Second round of peace talks between Russia and Ukraine and Istanbul today failed to reach any progress towards a ceasefire.

Instead, the two sides agreed to humanitarian prisoner exchanges, as imperious Charles Maynes reports from Moscow. These talks saw Russia and Ukraine exchange competing proposals for ending the war. Neither peace plan was acceptable to the other. The talks lasted little more than an hour. Yet Moscow and Kiev did agree to exchange all heavily wounded prisoners of war, as well as captured soldiers under the age of 25. They also agreed to return the remains of thousands of war dead. But Russia rejected Ukraine's calls for a month-long ceasefire that, despite threats of possible new sanctions against Moscow from the Trump

administration, instead Russian negotiators offered short-term stoppages in fighting, but framed it as a sanitary issue going into the hot summer months, a chance for both sides to collect their dead. Charles Maines, NPR News, Moscow. An exercise program for colon cancer survivors can cut their risk of dying by one-third. NPR's Maria Godoy has more on the findings of a first-of-its-kind trial. The study involved 889 patients who had completed chemotherapy. Half were given information promoting fitness and nutrition. The other half worked with a coach in a structured exercise program over three years.

After eight years, patients in the structured exercise program had a 28% lower risk of their cancer coming back. Over the years, lots of research has shown that colon cancer survivors who are more physically active have a lower risk of recurrence and improved overall survival compared to those who exercise less. But the new study is the first randomized controlled trial to find similar improvements. The findings appear in the New England Journal of Medicine. Maria Godoy, NPR News. This is NPR. Voters in South Korea are going to the polls. Tuesday's presidential election follows months of political turmoil triggered by former President Yoon Seok-yul. Yoon was

impeached and removed from office in April after a botched attempt to impose martial law in December. A new insurance report shows hurricanes have caused hundreds of billions of dollars in damage in the U.S. over the last decade. As NPR's Rebecca Hershaw reports, nearly half of those losses were insured. Of the five most expensive hurricanes to ever hit the U.S., three of them have happened in the last eight years. That's according to an analysis by the re-insurance company Munich Re. Property insurance companies were on the hook for about half the bill from those storms,

the analysis estimates. Insurance companies rely on their own insurance to cover such losses in the form of what's called reinsurance. Home insurance prices and the price of reinsurance for companies have both skyrocketed in recent years. This is the first week of Atlantic hurricane season. It runs through the end of November. Rebecca Herscher and PR News. And women's softball four-time defending champion Oklahoma has been eliminated from the women's college world series. Texas Tech scored the game-winning run in the seventh inning, a 3-2

walk-off win. The victory sends Texas Tech to the best of three championship series against Texas, which begins Wednesday. The financial markets in Asia are higher in Tuesday trading. Japan's benchmark Nikkei edged up half a percentage point in early trading following modest gains on Wall Street.