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• Voters across central Kansas will decide on several local ballot measures Tuesday, with school bond proposals in McPherson and Newton and sales tax questions in Hutchinson and Wichita topping the ticket. →

• More than 100 residents packed Colwich Elementary School for a community meeting on possible data center developments in western Sedgwick County, which remains under a 90-day moratorium on new data center zoning and building permit applications. →

• Conservative lawmakers in the Kansas Senate have introduced a proposed constitutional amendment that would redefine legal rights as beginning at conception. →

• A Kansas House committee has advanced a measure that would grant civil liability immunity to law enforcement officers who cooperate with federal immigration authorities. →

• Seward County Fire Chief Andrew Barkley resigned days after a tense exchange with a commissioner over radio access during wildfire response, as officials identified lack of a centralized command center as a key failure. →

🇺🇸 US

• The State Department closed its embassies in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait after Iranian drone attacks struck both compounds and ordered Americans to immediately depart 14 Middle Eastern countries. →

• Persian Gulf nations face dwindling interceptor supplies as they defend against hundreds of Iranian drones and missiles, with experts warning current defensive burn rates can be sustained only days longer. →

• The death toll from an Iranian strike on a U.S. tactical operations center at Kuwait's Shuaiba port rose to six after recovery of two additional service members' remains. →

• Analysts project U.S. military campaigns in Iran and Venezuela could neutralize two chronic sources of oil supply disruptions and reduce geopolitical volatility in global markets. →

• Venezuela's oil exports doubled in February to 788,000 barrels per day as production recovers under U.S.-directed oversight following the capture of Nicolás Maduro. →

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March 3 1820: Congress passes the Missouri Compromise

The Missouri Compromise of 1820 let Missouri enter the Union as a slave state and Maine as a free state while banning slavery in most of the remaining Louisiana Purchase north of the 36°30′ line, temporarily preserving the balance of power between North and South. Over time, Southern leaders chafed at these limits, and Congress’s 1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act repealed the compromise by allowing settlers in Kansas and Nebraska to decide slavery by popular sovereignty, directly triggering the violent clashes known as “Bleeding Kansas.” The breakdown of this earlier compromise system, the bloodshed in Kansas, and the hardening of pro- and antislavery positions helped push the nation past the point of political compromise and into the Civil War in 1861.

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