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Find us wherever you get your podcasts. Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Jack Spear. Authorities say the man who has been charged with launching a weekend attack in Boulder, Colorado that left 12 people injured there had been planning it for a year, targeting what he called a Zionist group. The FBI has identified the suspect as 45-year-old Mohammed Sabe Soliman. Speaking at a news conference, acting US attorney for the District of Colorado,

J. Bishop Gruhl described Sunday's attack. What the charges allege that he did was to throw Molotov cocktails at a group of men and women, some of them in their late 80s, burning them as they peacefully walked on a Sunday to draw attention to Israeli hostages held in Gaza. Administration officials say Soleiman, an Egyptian citizen, is one of half a million

people estimated to have overstayed his tourist visa and, according to DHS, was in the U.S. illegally. Indiana Governor Mike Braun has replaced the alumni-elected trustees of Indiana University with his own picks, including several polarizing conservative figures. Ethan Sanweiss, a member of station WFIU, has more. Last minute changes to the state budget allow the governor to remove the three elected trustees, although Braun previously told reporters he wasn't considering it. The governor notified them they were terminated in a one-sentence letter.

The new trustees include conservative attorney James Bopp Jr., who represented Citizens United in a court case that opened the door for corporate political spending. Bopp has also challenged the results of the 2020 presidential election. Governor Mike Braun also appointed former ESPN anchor Stage Steel, who was suspended from the network in 2021 after comments against COVID vaccine mandates and about former President Barack Obama's racial identity. For NPR News, I'm Ethan Sandweiss in Bloomington, Indiana. Over the weekend, the oil producing members of OPEC Plus announced their increasing production, the kind of news that usually sends prices down, but not this time, and first Camila Dominovski explains. It's Econ 101. If supplies up and demand hasn't changed,

prices drop. And for months now, OPEC Plus, the group of oil producing countries led by Saudi Arabia, has announced it's putting more oil on global markets and global prices have dropped. But now it's a pattern. OPEC announced the same production hike three months in a row. So this time, the oil market was expecting it, already pricing it in. Add some geopolitical concerns to the mix and prices went up instead. Econ 101 is useful, but the real world's a good bit more complicated. Kamila Domenosky, NPR News. The Trump administration's announcement last week intends to double tariffs on foreign

steel and aluminum may hit Americans in unexpected places, including the grocery store aisle. That's because the 50% levy Trump announced on imports would affect big ticket items like washing machines and cars, but also packaging for things like soup and nuts. You're listening to NPR News. Israeli forces in Gaza apparently opened fire again as a group of people were headed to an aid distribution site, killing at least three people and wounding dozens more. That's according to Gaza health officials. Military there says it fired warning shots at suspects who approached its forces.

The shooting taking place at the same location where Israeli forces fired a day earlier on crowds of people headed for an aid hub in southern Gaza. An exercise program for colon cancer survivors can cut their risk of dying by a third. MPR's Maria Godoy is 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. Sicily's Mount Etna has rumbled to life, putting on a fiery show and sending tourists fleeing, though officials say wild volcanic activity sent a cloud of smoke and ash into the air, it poses no danger to the population. Alert level was raised at the Catania Airport today.

Representatives at Italy's National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology say the spectacle was caused when part of a southeast crater collapsed. I'm Jack Spear, NPR News. This message comes from NYU Langone. The NYU Langone Health app gives you access to your electronic health record. NPR News.