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Live from NPR News, I'm Giles Snyder. The man accused in the Molotov cocktail attack in Boulder, Colorado, on people marching in support of Israeli hostages held by Hamas, had his first court appearance Monday. He's facing numerous state charges, as well as a federal hate crime charge. Jay Bishop Gruhl is the acting U.S. Attorney for the District of Colorado. My office has charged Mohammed Sabri Solomon, age 45, with the commission of a hate crime under 18 USC section 249. When that offense includes attempted murder, The statutory maximum federal sentence is life in prison. Authorities say the number of those injured in Sunday's Molotov cocktail attack has risen

to 12. The Homeland Security Department is increasing its arrest quotas for immigration officers, and Pierce Jimena Pastillo reports that the demand to arrest more people comes at the same time that DHS is running out of space and money. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem confirmed over the weekend that Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency is now required to conduct 3,000 arrests a day. That quote is an increase from 1,800. But the department is also struggling to keep up with its own pace.

It currently has more people in detention than it has detention beds, and the administration is asking Congress for billions of dollars to hire more people and increase detention space, but that money may not come for several more weeks. The targets also come amid efforts to streamline and expedite deportations, but with limited resources, including personnel, to carry out those efforts. Ximena Bustia and PR News, Washington. The United Nations Secretary General says it's unacceptable that Palestinians are risking their lives for food.

Here's NPR's Michelle Kellerman. The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation says it has delivered six million meals in its first week in operations in southern Gaza and has denied reports of chaos and shootings near its distribution sites. UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres, though, says he was appalled by reports Gaza, and has denied reports of chaos and shootings near its distribution sites. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, though, says he was appalled by reports that some Palestinians were killed trying to reach one of those sites on Sunday. He's calling for an immediate and independent investigation and reminding Israel that it

has, quote, clear obligations to facilitate aid into Gaza. The UN is not taking part in the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation. The US says the UN is wrong to criticize the foundation, which it says is trying to make sure Hamas doesn't benefit from aid. Michelle Kellerman, NPR News, the State Department. Another deadly incident is being reported

near an aid site in Gaza. Palestinian health officials say at least 27 people were killed today. The Israeli military says its forces opened fire near a group that ignored warning shots after leaving designated access routes near a distribution center. 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 Sung-yool.

Yoon was impeached and removed from office in April after a botched attempt to impose martial law in December. Your favorite childhood toy could still be languishing in a landfill, but what if someone else could have borrowed that toy like a book from a library? Reporter Buffy Gorilla has more from Philadelphia. After becoming a mom, Crystal Cuniera started to think about ways to live more sustainably, and the biggest roadblock was the toy box. We had these higher end toys that I didn't want to just get rid of.

So my group of friends, we started sharing toys and it just felt like there was something more there. So it's a pretty simple concept. A toy library is just like a book library, but for toys. You borrow them and you bring them back and exchange them. But Kuniera runs the Ruta Bega toy library like a business. Families pay up to $65 per month. And then they get to bar four toys at a time

with unlimited exchanges. So they literally can come back every single day and exchange one or all of them. For NPR News, I'm Buffy Gorilla in Philadelphia. 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 in a three to two walk off win. The victory since Texas Tech to the best of three championship series against Texas, which begins Wednesday. This is MPR News.