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Live from NPR News in Washington, on Corva Coleman, the FBI is investigating an attack in Boulder, Colorado, as terrorism. Authorities say eight people were set on fire at an outdoor mall yesterday. From member station KUNC, Emma Vanda90 reports a suspect has been arrested. Local FBI officials identified the male suspect as 45-year-old Mohammed Sabri Salomon. He used a makeshift flamethrower and threw it at a crowd. Boulder County District Attorney Michael Doherty says the list of mass attacks in Colorado is too long.

But from those experiences, we have forged really strong working relationships and ensuring that we do everything possible, everything we can do and need to do to secure justice for the victims, their family members and the Boulder community. Officials say the suspect yelled, Free Palestine, during a march in support of releasing Israeli hostages held by Hamas. They believe he acted alone. For NPR News, I'm Emma Vanden Heide in Denver. China and the U.S. are accusing each other of violating the trade agreement the two countries reached just last month in Geneva.

Cherise Pham reports from Hong Kong the clash is threatening to again upend trade relations. Beijing accused the US of breaching deal terms, signaling that talks between the world's top two economies have taken a turn for the worse. The trade war between China and the US had been on a hiatus, following a trade agreement forged in Geneva that led to a suspension of most tariffs for 90 days.

But tensions have been rising. Last week, the U.S. restricted the sale of semiconductor software to China and said it planned to revoke visas for Chinese students. China's Ministry of Commerce said those moves violate the trade agreement. The spokesperson added that if the U.S. continues to damage China's interests, China will take forceful measures to safeguard its rights and interests. For NBR News, I'm Shireen Spam in Hong Kong.

Traders on Wall Street are watching the renewed trade tensions between the U.S. and China. Dow Jones' industrial futures are lower in pre-market trading this morning. Steel futures are also lower. President Trump said last Friday he will double U.S. tariffs on imports of aluminum and steel to 50%. These new 50% tariffs are supposed to start on Wednesday. Tulsa's mayor has announced the city will raise money for a $105 million charitable trust to address harms

from the 1921 Tulsa race massacre. That's when mobs of white people attacked and killed as many as 300 black members of the prosperous neighborhood of Greenwood. Tulsa Mayor Monroe Nichols says the trust will invest in affordable housing, scholarships, and land acquisition. This is not the age-old battle of black versus white, or the more contemporary battle of blue versus red.

This is about putting those petty divisions and out there thinking behind us as we press on together. The Tulsa mayor also declared yesterday as race massacre observance day. This is NPR. There's been fresh violence reported at aid distribution sites in southern Gaza. Health officials in the Palestinian enclave say there have been dozens of shooting deaths reported and hundreds of injuries. The U.S. and Israeli-backed aid group only claims there have been successful distributions

of aid that it's passing out. The Israeli military says it fired warning shots, but there have been no casualties, it claims. Climate change is warming the North and South Poles faster than the rest of the planet. NPR's Lauren Summer reports new research shows there could be an unexpected source of cooling, penguins. There are big penguin colonies in Antarctica,

and a lot of penguins means a lot of poop. Researchers from the University of Helsinki were studying the atmosphere there and noticed fog forming around a colony of Adelie penguins. They measured large amounts of ammonia gas coming from the penguin waste. That gas creates particles that become the seeds for clouds to form. Researchers say that could be cooling Antarctica, which matters to the rest of the planet because ice melting at the poles is causing sea levels to rise around the world. Lauren Summer, NPR News. Heavy wildfires in central and western Canada have forced more than 25,000 people to flee

across three provinces. Most of the evacuations are in Manitoba. That province lies to the north of Minnesota and North Dakota. The smoke from the Canadian wildfires is seeping south. Most of Minnesota is under an air quality alert today. Weather forecasters say this is a long duration event and that there will be multiple rounds of smoke that descend to the south. This is NPR.