--:-- Tracy Mumford: From the New York Times, it's the headlines. I'm Tracy Mumford. Today's Monday, June 2nd.
--:-- Tracy Mumford: Here's what we're covering. When this call came out today, our officers rushed as quickly as they could, and they immediately ran into a chaotic situation where a man was throwing Molotov cocktails.
--:-- Tracy Mumford: In Boulder, Colorado yesterday, a group of demonstrators who regularly gather on Sundays to march in support of Israeli hostages was attacked. Witnesses are reporting that the subject threw an incendiary device into the crowd.
--:-- Tracy Mumford: The suspect was heard to yell, "free Palestine," during the attack. In all, eight people were injured, two of whom were airlifted to a burn unit.
--:-- Tracy Mumford: Boulder's mayor described the group as Jewish community members who were on a march for peace and for hostage return.
--:-- Tracy Mumford: The FBI said a 45-year-old man identified as Mohammed Sabri Salman was arrested at the scene.
--:-- Tracy Mumford: As a result of these preliminary facts, it is clear that this is a targeted act of violence, and the FBI is investigating this as an act of terrorism.
--:-- Tracy Mumford: The attack has intensified fears about the backlash to Israel's military campaign in Gaza, coming less than two weeks after two Israeli embassy aides were shot and killed in Washington, D.C.
--:-- Tracy Mumford: In Gaza yesterday, according to local health officials, more than 20 people were shot and killed and almost 200 were wounded as they waited at an aid distribution center.
--:-- Tracy Mumford: The crowd had gathered overnight to try and beat the rush to get food. The Israeli military initially said it was unaware of any injuries from Israeli fire at the location but a military official later told reporters that troops had fired what were described as warning shots toward suspects.
--:-- Tracy Mumford: The incident is the latest involving the new aid distribution system in Gaza. Until recently, Israel had blocked all aid into the territory.
--:-- Tracy Mumford: Now, civilians are being directed to a handful of tightly controlled sites. The rollout began last week. While some days have gone smoothly, there have also been chaotic scenes, including one other instance in which Israeli forces said they fired warning shots.
--:-- Tracy Mumford: Over the weekend, Ukraine launched a stunning attack on Russian air bases, stretching all the way from near Norway in the west to Siberia in the east.
--:-- Tracy Mumford: The full scope of the damage is still becoming clear. What we do know, even with this limited information, is that this was one of the most audacious attacks of the Ukrainians to date.
--:-- Tracy Mumford: My colleague Mark Santora says the attack was so unexpected, some military analysts have likened it to the surprise of Pearl Harbor.
--:-- Tracy Mumford: The Ukrainians had been trying to find a way to hit Russia's airfields to cut off their ability to continue launching relentless bombing campaigns on Ukrainian towns and cities.
--:-- Tracy Mumford: They tried in the past with long-range weapons, but the Russians had adapted. So what the Ukrainians did this time was basically drive right up to the bases by secreting these drones in the backs of trailers and then releasing them remotely so that the Russian defenses were essentially useless.
--:-- Tracy Mumford: While the New York Times hasn't been able to confirm the full extent of the damage, Ukrainian intelligence services and President Zelensky said that 41 Russian bombers, some 34 of the fleet were damaged or destroyed which is worth an estimated billion carried out by little drones that cost a few thousand dollars each.
--:-- Tracy Mumford: Russia also launched a major attack this weekend, sending around 500 drones and decoys into Ukraine.
--:-- Tracy Mumford: Delegations from the two countries are scheduled to meet later today in Istanbul for peace talks, but expectations of a breakthrough are low.
--:-- Tracy Mumford: American auto executives are warning that the U.S. trade war with China could force them to cut back production in the coming days and weeks because they're running out of magnets.
--:-- Tracy Mumford: The magnets are made from rare earth metals, a resource China has a near-total lock on. The country stopped exporting the metals last month.
--:-- Tracy Mumford: Though China and the U.S. have reached something of a trade truce for the moment, China's continued to limit access to the materials, which are critical not only to cars—they're used in motors, brakes, and steering—but also to everything from semiconductors to fighter jets.
--:-- Tracy Mumford: One economic analyst called America's dependence on rare-earth magnets an Achilles heel.
--:-- Tracy Mumford: Some American factories hope to start producing rare-earth magnets this year, but China has a significant head start on mining, production, and research.
--:-- Tracy Mumford: Dozens of universities there offer rare-earth chemistry programs, which have found more efficient ways to process the metals. The U.S. has zero similar programs.
--:-- Tracy Mumford: And finally, in Canada, the country's last old department store chain is closing.
--:-- Tracy Mumford: Granted, chain stores taking a hit these days is not uncommon. RIP Kmart and almost every Sears.
--:-- Tracy Mumford: But the Hudson's Bay Company is the oldest corporation on the continent, founded 355 years ago, long before Canada or the U.S. were even countries.
--:-- Tracy Mumford: It was not a department store then, of course. Britain set it up as a fur trading company. The full name? The Governor and Company of Adventurers of England trading into Hudson's Bay.
--:-- Tracy Mumford: It was given a vast stretch of territory, about a third of what's now Canada. There was no consideration of the indigenous people who already lived there.
--:-- Tracy Mumford: Hudson's Bay Company established remote trading posts and relied on indigenous trappers for beaver pelts and other resources.
--:-- Tracy Mumford: Over the centuries, it evolved from a major force in colonizing North America to its final form, a sprawling department store chain with perfume counters and a small army of mannequins, which are also now for sale as the stores close.
--:-- Tracy Mumford: The company filed for bankruptcy in March.
--:-- Tracy Mumford: One shopper raiding one of the final clearance sales in downtown Ottawa told The Times she had a love-hate relationship with the store.
--:-- Tracy Mumford: For her, it was a mix of nostalgia, but with the dark side of Canada's colonial history.
--:-- Tracy Mumford: Those are the headlines. Today on The Daily, Times investigative reporters walk through what they uncovered about Elon Musk's chaotic life on the campaign trail.
--:-- Tracy Mumford: That's next in the New York Times audio app where you can listen wherever you get your podcasts. I'm Tracy Mumford. We'll be back tomorrow.
