🌾 Kansas

• Kansas will run a deficit every year through 2028, according to updated Consensus Revenue Estimates that show income tax collections falling $127.4 million below previous predictions for the fiscal year ending June 30. →

• Former Coldwater Mayor Joe Ceballos pleaded guilty Monday to three misdemeanor counts of disorderly election conduct, receiving a $2,000 fine and suspended six-month jail sentence for voting illegally as a noncitizen. →

• Ford County Fire and EMS Firefighter/Paramedic William Cory "Liam" Price died Sunday after suffering a medical emergency while on duty. →

• Former University of Kansas runner Sharon Lokedi won her second consecutive Boston Marathon on Monday, finishing in 2:18:51 to capture her third World Marathon Majors title. →

• Kansas health and extension officials are warning residents that ticks have emerged in large numbers this spring, with experts attributing the early activity to warmer-than-average weather. →

🇺🇸 US

• Uncertainty over U.S.-Iran peace talks Tuesday exposes a power struggle between political officials leading negotiations and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, which increasingly holds final authority over Iran's positions. →

• Virginians vote Tuesday on a Democratic-backed referendum that could redraw the state's congressional map and deliver the party as many as four additional House seats. →

• Tim Cook is stepping down as Apple chief executive Sept. 1, handing the role to hardware chief John Ternus while becoming executive chairman. →

• Amazon will invest an additional $5 billion in Anthropic as part of a broadening partnership that could grow to $25 billion, with Anthropic agreeing to buy more than $100 billion of Amazon cloud services. →

• Uber has committed more than $10 billion to buying autonomous vehicles and taking stakes in their developers, marking a shift from its asset-light gig-economy model. →

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APRIL 21, 753 B.C.: ROME FOUNDED BY ROMULUS

According to Roman tradition, the city was established by Romulus on the site where he and his twin brother Remus were miraculously saved and nursed by a she‑wolf. The myth, later refined by scholars like Marcus Terentius Varro, became the foundational legend explaining Rome’s divine origins and early rise.

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