Lawrence

• The Douglas County Commission postponed its review of the joint homelessness strategic plan pending the onboarding of a new city manager. →
• A Douglas County commissioner is working to revive the EveryDay Counts truancy program in collaboration with local school districts. →
• The Lawrence-Douglas County Metropolitan Planning Commission recommended requiring special use permits for downtown interior self-storage. →
• All registered Kansas voters eligible to vote on Aug. 4 constitutional amendment to replace Supreme Court merit-selection with partisan elections. →
• Shelly Prescott of Prescott Performance Lab shared a quick at-home exercise routine designed to help individuals build better balance. →
• Expect a mostly cloudy Thursday in Lawrence with a high of 81°F and a growing chance of showers and thunderstorms as the day goes on.

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🌾 Kansas

• A June 24 poll of likely Kansas Democratic primary voters showed state Sen. Cindy Holscher leading Gov. Laura Kelly's endorsed candidate, state Sen. Ethan Corson, in the gubernatorial race, while pastor Adam Hamilton led an 11-candidate U.S. Senate field. →

• The U.S. Justice Department sued Kansas on June 24 to invalidate the state's 2004 law granting in-state tuition to certain undocumented students, with Republican AG Kris Kobach joining a proposed consent decree to halt enforcement while Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly moved to intervene in defense of the law. →

• Geary County commissioners voted unanimously June 22 to impose a one-year moratorium on new data centers, wind, solar, battery-storage projects and cryptocurrency mining in unincorporated areas of the county while officials develop governing regulations. →

• A National Weather Service meteorologist explained June 24 that the EF-2 tornado that killed one person in northern Sedgwick County on June 21 went unwarned because it formed, traveled less than a quarter-mile and dissipated within about two minutes — faster than radar's two-to-three-minute scan interval. →

• Wichita police arrested a 15-year-old boy June 24 on suspicion of criminal threat after he made repeated calls to Ascension Via Christi St. Joseph threatening to shoot up the hospital, briefly prompting restricted access to the facility. →

🇺🇸 US

• Surging U.S. AI infrastructure spending is driving a fresh wave of inflation across consumer electronics and energy, as Micron Technology reported record fiscal third-quarter revenue of $41.46 billion — up 346% year-over-year — and its market value topped $1 trillion. →

• Trump canceled a planned signing ceremony for the 21st Century Road to Housing Act, the largest federal housing affordability bill in decades, saying he will withhold his signature until Congress passes the SAVE Act requiring proof of citizenship to register to vote. →

• Three candidates endorsed by New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani won June 23 Democratic primaries signaling a leftward shift in the party ahead of the 2026 midterms. →

• A new bipartisan coalition called RAISE US, led by former Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo and former Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb, launched this week with Amazon, Microsoft and other major employers to develop workforce policies addressing AI-driven job disruption. →

• Ukraine launched one of its largest drone barrages of the war June 24, striking more than a dozen Russian regions and hitting a Moscow-area oil refinery for the second time in a week, with industry sources saying the facility may not resume operations before 2027. →

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JUNE 25, 1996: KHOBAR TOWERS BOMBING IN SAUDI ARABIA KILLS 19 U.S. AIRMEN

Iran-backed Saudi Hezbollah operatives detonated a massive truck bomb outside the Khobar Towers U.S. Air Force housing complex in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, killing 19 American airmen and wounding nearly 500 people. U.S. investigators and federal courts later concluded that Iranian officials inspired, funded and directed the attack as part of a campaign to drive American forces out of Saudi Arabia and the Persian Gulf. In subsequent civil cases, U.S. courts found Iran liable and ordered it to pay hundreds of millions of dollars in damages to survivors and victims’ families.