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This is Ira Glass with This American Life, each week on our show. We choose a theme, tell different stories on that theme. All right, I'm just going to stop right there. You're listening to an NPR podcast, chances are you know our show. So instead, I'm going to tell you, we've just been on a run of really good shows lately. Some big epic emotional stories, some weird funny stuff too. Download us, This American Life. Live from NPR News, I'm Dale Willman. The FBI says they have a suspect in custody following an attack on Sunday in Boulder,

Colorado. He's been identified as 45-year-old Mohammed Sabri Salomon. This attack happened at a regularly scheduled weekly peaceful event. Witnesses are reporting that the subject used a makeshift flamethrower and threw an incendiary device into the crowd. That's FBI Special Agent Mark Michalek who says six people were injured in the attack and at least two of them have been transferred to a burn unit at a Denver hospital. The FBI says the suspect shouted free Palestine during the attack. They're classifying

the incident as an act of terrorism. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says his forces launched a daring attack inside Russian territory on Sunday. The attack destroyed 41 Russian war planes based at several airfields. The attacks came as peace talks are scheduled in Turkey this week. MPR's Joanna Kikissis has more. In his nightly video address Zelensky said 117 first-person view drones were used in what Ukraine's security services calls Operation Spiderweb. Zelensky said, we prepared for this operation for more than a year and a half. The organization and details were perfectly prepared.

In a statement, Ukraine's security service said about a third of strategic cruise missile carriers in Russia's main airfields were destroyed at a total cost of about $7 billion. Russia often uses bomber planes to shoot missiles at Ukrainian cities, killing civilians and destroying homes. Russia's defense ministry confirmed the attacks. Joanna Kakissis, NPR News, Cave. Facebook and Instagram owner Metup is planning to automate its efforts to review products for risks, including to the privacy of its users. As NPR's Shannon Bond reports, the move is part of a broader shift at the company toward

relying on artificial intelligence to do work now being done by humans. For years when Metup launched new features and products, human reviewers evaluated possible risks to privacy, to teen users, to the prevalence of toxic content. Now the company aims to automate up to 90% of risk assessments using a system powered by artificial intelligence, according to internal documents obtained by NPR. The change will allow product developers

to release app updates and features more quickly. Meta says only quote, low risk decisions are being automated, The change will allow product developers to release app updates and features more quickly. Meta says only quote, low risk decisions are being automated. But the internal documents reviewed by NPR show that Meta is considering automating reviews for sensitive areas, including AI safety and youth risk. Shannon Bond, NPR News. Wildfires are continuing to burn across Northwestern Canada this weekend. More than 25,000 people in three provinces have now been evacuated from their homes. Most of those evacuated

were from Manitoba. Smoke from the fires is causing air quality issues in parts of Canada, as well as several U.S. border states. Officials say ongoing hot, dry weather is a major driver of the fires. You're listening to NPR News. The death toll from a devastating flood that hit a market town in central Nigeria this weekend has now risen to at least 200 people. Officials say massive rainfall driven in part by climate change led to the flooding in Mokwa, which is a major trading hub for farmers. Search teams are continuing their efforts going through collapsed homes and buildings

as they look for more possible victims. In a major women's golf championship, Sweden's Maja Stark has won the U.S. Open. Stark's two-shot victory took place at the Aaron Hills course near Milwaukee this weekend. Chuck Kornbach of Member Station, WWWM, has our reports. Stark shot a final round even par 72 to hold off top US player Nelly Korda in Japan's Rio Takeda. The 25-year-old Stark earns $2.4 million for her victory. A reporter asked what she'll do with the money. Maybe move out of my studio apartment.

Could be one thing. Overall for the four-day tournament Stark was seven shots under par. It's her first win of a major US competition. She played collegiate golf at Oklahoma State University. For NPR News, I'm Chuck Quirmbach in Aaron, Wisconsin. Scotty Scheffler pulled away in the final round of the

Memorial Golf Tournament in Dublin, Ohio on Sunday to beat runner-up Ben Griffin by four strokes. The win makes Scheffler pulled away in the final round of the Memorial Golf Tournament in Dublin, Ohio on Sunday to beat runner-up Ben Griffin by four strokes. The win makes Scheffler the first back-to-back winner at the Memorial since Tiger Woods. Ricky Fowler meanwhile had his first top-10 finish of the year and that win allows him to enter the British Open. I'm Dale Willman, NPR News. I'm Dale Willman, NPR News.