June 2 (Reuters) - The following are the top stories in the Wall Street Journal. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy.

- Six people were injured Sunday afternoon in downtown Boulder, Colorado, USA, in an incident the FBI is investigating as an act of terror against a group advocating for the release of hostages in Gaza.

- Australian investment manager Washington H. Soul Pattinson SOL.AX and building-products maker Brickworks BKW.AX agreed to merge into a single company worth $9 billion, cementing a formal relationship that began almost 60 years ago.

- More than 20 Gazans were killed as they made their way to a U.S.-Israeli aid distribution center, Palestinian health authorities said, the latest violence in a chaotic rollout of a new assistance program.

- Homeland Security's controversial "Sanctuary Jurisdictions" list disappeared from its website during the weekend as the agency fights criticism from red and blue states over the criteria used to create it.

- Rio Tinto RIO.L, RIO.AX has agreed to a new management plan with a local indigenous group that covers its iron-ore operations in an area of Australia's Pilbara region where it destroyed two ancient rock shelters five years ago.

- Stanley Fischer, one of the most influential economists of recent decades, who served as vice chairman of the Federal Reserve from 2014 to 2017 has died at the age of 81.

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