Lawrence

• Johnson County Transit has suspended the K-10 Connector bus service, which runs between Lawrence and Overland Park, for the summer. →
• The Lawrence-Douglas County Metropolitan Planning Organization is seeking public feedback on a newly drafted Lawrence Bikes Plan. →
• Candidates have filed to challenge incumbents for all three Douglas County Commission seats up for election in 2026. →
• Nine candidates have applied to fill the district court judge vacancy in the 7th Judicial District of Douglas County. →
• The Lawrence Environmental Sustainability Advisory Board is calling for increased grassroots participation to implement city climate goals. →
• Lawrence's annual public art exhibition features World Cup-themed sculptures and downtown walking tours. →
• Expect a beautiful, partly sunny Tuesday in Lawrence with comfortable highs reaching exactly 84 degrees and a light easterly breeze.

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🌾 Kansas

• Former Republican Gov. Jeff Colyer dropped out of the 2026 Kansas gubernatorial race June 1, ending his campaign after President Trump endorsed Senate President Ty Masterson and leaving seven Republicans on the August 4 primary ballot. →

• Overland Park Mayor Curt Skoog filed for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination hours before the June 1 deadline, naming Dr. Jennifer Bacani McKenney as his running mate and joining a three-way primary against state Sens. Ethan Corson and Cindy Holscher. →

• Severe thunderstorms swept the Kansas City metro overnight June 1, waking soccer star Lionel Messi to a tornado warning during his first night in the city and causing widespread wind damage, downed trees and flash flooding across the region. →

• Jake Steel, a Harvard doctorate holder and former math teacher, officially became Kansas Commissioner of K-12 Education on June 1, succeeding Randy Watson, who led the department since 2014. →

• The Kansas Jayhawks will host Oklahoma in the program's first-ever NCAA Super Regional at Hoglund Ballpark after sweeping the Lawrence Regional, with game times to be announced June 2. →

🇺🇸 US

• President Trump signed a proclamation restructuring Section 232 tariffs on steel, aluminum and copper, lowering rates on agricultural equipment and HVAC components and reducing the domestic-content threshold for discounted rates, with changes taking effect June 8 through December 2027. →

• The Justice Department paused activation of Trump's $1.8 billion "anti-weaponization" fund under a court order, as Trump weighed scrapping the program amid Republican opposition and criticism that it would reward political allies with public money. →

• CBS News correspondent Scott Pelley confronted newly hired "60 Minutes" executive producer Nick Bilton at a staff meeting June 1, accusing network editor in chief Bari Weiss of "murdering" the program following the dismissal of veteran producers and correspondents. →

• Anthropic confidentially filed IPO paperwork on June 1, potentially taking the Claude AI maker — valued near $1 trillion — public as soon as this fall, as rival OpenAI also prepares its own offering. →

• Iran suspended U.S. ceasefire talks and vowed to keep the Strait of Hormuz closed, while Iranian Revolutionary Guard ballistic missiles struck toward U.S. forces in Kuwait — intercepted without casualties — marking the most serious escalation since the conflict began in February. →

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JUNE 2, 1997: TIMOTHY MCVEIGH CONVICTED FOR OKLAHOMA CITY BOMBING

A federal jury found Timothy McVeigh guilty on 15 counts of murder and conspiracy for his role in the 1995 truck bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. The attack, which killed 168 people including 19 children, was the deadliest act of domestic terrorism in U.S. history at the time.

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