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These days, there is a lot of news. It could be hard to keep up with what it means for you, your family, and your community. Consider This from NPR is a podcast that helps you make sense of the news. Six days a week, we bring you a deep dive on a story and provide the context, the backstory, and analysis you need to understand our rapidly changing world. Listen to the Consider This podcast from NPR. 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. FBI Special Agent Mark Michalik 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, 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 warplanes based at several airfields and it came as peace talks are scheduled to get underway in Turkey this week. MPR's Joanna Kokissis 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 Kekis, NPR News, CAVE. Facebook and Instagram owner Meta 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 Meta 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, 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 burning in Canada are continuing to cause air quality issues in several U.S. border states. More than 25,000 people have now been evacuated from their homes in three provinces because of the flames, including about 17,000 people in Manitoba.

Fire officials say those numbers could continue to climb as dry, hot weather helps to feed the flames. This is NPR News. The death toll has grown following a shooting Sunday near an aid distribution site in Gaza. Health officials say at least 31 people are now dead and another 170 people have been injured. Witnesses blame the shooting on Israeli troops, but Israeli officials say their troops only fired warning shots at suspects advancing toward them overnight. the troops only fired warning shots at suspects advancing toward them overnight.

Sweden's Maya Stark has won the U.S. Women's Golf Open. Stark's two-shot victory took place at the Aaron Hills course near Milwaukee. Chuck Kornbacher, member station WUWM, has our report. Stark shot a final round even par 72 to hold off top U.S. player Nelly Korda and 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. That could be one thing. Overall for the four-day tournament, Stark was seven shots under par. It's her first win of a major U.S. competition.

She played collegiate golf at Oklahoma State University. For NPR News, I'm Chuck Quirmbach in Aaron, Wisconsin. The Disney live action hybrid movie Lilo and Stitch hung on to first place again this weekend, bringing in another $63 million in ticket sales in North American theaters. That brings its total domestic gross to $280 million in its second week in movie houses. Mission Impossible Lafana Reckoning meanwhile claims second with $27.3 million. And the Karate Kid Legends opened in third with a $21 million haul. I'm Dale Willman, NPR News.

President Donald Trump is testing the power of the presidency in ways that are stressing Neil Willman, NPR News.