Hays

• KDOT began a $340,000 bridge repair on U.S. 183 over the Saline River in Ellis County, reducing traffic to one lane with minor delays. →
• The Hays City Commission reviewed a housing district and bonds to convert the former Lincoln Elementary School into rental housing. →
• A proposed special benefit district in Hays would fund $1.6 million in infrastructure improvements for 24 undeveloped lots. →
• The Hays City Commission approved support for $840,000 in state tax credits for new fourplexes at the Lincoln school property. →
• Hays and Russell leaders met with EPA Region 7 officials to discuss the R9 water transfer project and prospective grant partnerships. →
• Expect plenty of sunshine today with highs reaching near 96°F and a gentle southerly breeze.

🌾 Kansas

• Evergy reported a second-quarter profit of $215 million, driven by growing electricity demand from data centers, and reaffirmed its earnings outlook through 2030. →

• A Citizen Journal review found Kansas governments and school districts scrambling to repair aging power, water, bridge and cooling systems as equipment reaches the end of its service life. →

• The U.S. Department of Homeland Security bought CoreCivic's 1,033-bed Midwest Regional Reception Center in Leavenworth for $238.4 million, raising questions about future city tax payments and local oversight. →

• Bonner Springs-Edwardsville USD 204 deployed ZeroEyes AI gun detection software across its schools, funded through a state grant program. →

• A Citizen Journal review found Kansas communities including Salina, Hays, Emporia, Lawrence and Abilene advancing plans to convert vacant motels, schools, stores and civic buildings into housing. →

🇺🇸 US

• Initial unemployment claims rose by 1,000 to 199,000 for the week ending Aug. 1, marking a third straight week below 200,000, the longest such streak since 1969. →

• The Pentagon's deputy secretary convened an emergency meeting over weapons shortages after President Trump made an angry call, as years of arms transfers to Ukraine and use in Yemen and Iran have strained U.S. munitions stocks across multiple theaters. →

• SpaceX will build a $16.8 billion semiconductor campus in Grimes County, Texas, creating 3,000 jobs, Gov. Greg Abbott announced Aug. 6. →

• A New Mexico judge ordered Meta on Aug. 6 to pay $567 million for youth-harm remediation programs, bringing the company's total liability in the case to $942 million. →

• Ukraine struck Russian oil refineries in Bashkortostan and Yaroslavl overnight into Aug. 6, part of a deepening campaign against Russian fuel and retail infrastructure, as German investigators found a bomb-laden drone near a Ukrainian cargo plane at Leipzig/Halle Airport. →

Weather

AUGUST 7, 1998: U.S. EMBASSIES IN EAST AFRICA BOMBED

The twin embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania marked a violent escalation of Islamist militancy that had been building since the 1979 Iranian Revolution galvanized anti-American sentiment across the Muslim world. The attacks, orchestrated by Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaeda network, foreshadowed the 9/11 strikes and helped lay the ideological and operational groundwork for the U.S.-led Global War on Terror.

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