🌾 Kansas

• Kansas voters approved four school bond and sales tax measures and rejected two Tuesday, with McPherson and Newton passing school bonds, Wellington narrowly rejecting a renovation bond by 26 votes, Hutchinson approving a city sales tax and Wichita rejecting a citywide sales tax increase in a landslide. →

• Republican Kansas House members introduced HB 2789 Tuesday, a bill that would classify all abortions as criminal homicide under the state's existing fetal protection statute nearly four years after 59% of voters rejected an anti-abortion constitutional amendment. →

• The Kansas House voted 119-0 Tuesday to pass SB 348, expanding state oversight of electric cooperative subsidiaries that serve about 10-15% of Kansans, almost all rural. →

• The Kansas Senate introduced SB 525 Tuesday requiring county sheriffs to honor ICE detainers and mandating the state pay legal costs and judgments from related federal court cases. →

• Both chambers of the Kansas Legislature moved Tuesday to approve a gaming compact between the Wyandotte Nation and the state submitted by Gov. Laura Kelly in February. →

🇺🇸 US

• Israeli airstrikes are systematically targeting Iran's internal security infrastructure, including Basij paramilitary forces and senior intelligence officials, with the United States joining the campaign by striking the Tehran headquarters of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. →

• The Assembly of Experts met virtually Tuesday to deliberate on a successor to slain Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, with his son Mojtaba emerging as the clear front-runner despite some members' concerns about announcing the appointment too quickly. →

• Oil and gas tanker traffic through the Strait of Hormuz has dropped to near zero since U.S.-Israeli strikes began Saturday, prompting Trump to order U.S. Navy escorts for tankers and political risk insurance for maritime trade through the strait. →

• The Senate Banking Committee released a combined bipartisan housing bill merging the ROAD to Housing Act with the House's Housing for the 21st Century Act, adding a Trump-backed ban on large institutional investors controlling more than 350 single-family homes from purchasing additional ones. →

• The Trump administration's blockade of all foreign oil shipments to Cuba has forced Russian and Canadian airlines to suspend flights and evacuate thousands of tourists as gasoline rationing and power outages cripple the island's tourism industry. →

Weather

March 4 1918: First cases reported in deadly 1918 flu pandemic

Army Private Albert Gitchell reported flu-like symptoms at Fort Riley, Kansas; within hours over 100 soldiers were ill, in what are believed to be the first reported U.S. cases of the 1918 influenza pandemic. This outbreak quickly spread through military camps, across the Atlantic with U.S. troops in World War I, and around the globe, ultimately infecting about 28% of Americans and killing tens of millions worldwide—far more than the war itself.

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