Manhattan

• U.S. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon visited Manhattan High School and Kansas State University to tour career education programs. →
• The Manhattan-Ogden USD 383 Board of Education approved the school district's academic calendar for the 2026-2027 school year. →
• The Manhattan City Commission approved $571,442 in design contracts for new Sunset Zoo exhibits funded by the Sunset Zoo Trust. →
• Manhattan city planners proposed a simplified review process to encourage developers to adaptively reuse vacant commercial buildings. →
• A city infrastructure project at Fifth and Leavenworth streets in Manhattan was delayed due to expanding storm sewer work. →
• Riley County Police Department Reports 9 Arrests July 27 - Aug. 4, 2026 →
• Expect some morning fog and a slight chance of early showers, but it will clear up to a partly sunny afternoon with a high near 84°F.

🌾 Kansas

• Garden City adopted Ordinances 3052 and 3053 on Aug. 4, becoming the first Kansas city to enact operative data center standards, limiting "microdata facilities" to the I-3 heavy industrial district with closed-loop cooling and size caps. →

• The Emporia City Commission voted unanimously Wednesday to seek a declaratory judgment in Lyon County District Court on a citizen petition seeking to prohibit high-impact data centers. →

• The Sedgwick County Commission voted 4-1 Wednesday to reject two proposed utility-scale solar projects near Haysville and Clearwater following opposition citing battery storage safety concerns. →

• Gov. Laura Kelly endorsed state Sen. Cindy Holscher for governor Wednesday, one day after Holscher defeated Kelly-backed Ethan Corson in the Democratic primary. →

• The Kansas Department of Health and Environment reported Wednesday that laboratory-confirmed cyclosporiasis cases reached 615 this year, up more than 150 from about a week earlier. →

🇺🇸 US

• The U.S. has used nearly all of its Army Tactical Missile Systems and Precision Strike Missiles and about half its Tomahawk cruise missiles during the Iran war, while Russia's overnight barrage on Kyiv killed 17 people amid a shortage of Patriot interceptors. →

• Eli Lilly reported second-quarter revenue of $23 billion Wednesday, up 48% from a year earlier, driven by surging demand for its Mounjaro and Zepbound weight-loss drugs, and raised its 2026 revenue forecast to $85 billion-$87 billion. →

• Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies arrested Jeanine John Taele, 38, at Trump National Golf Club in Rancho Palos Verdes on Sunday after finding a loaded pistol magazine and handgun, two days before President Trump attends a fundraiser there. →

• A derelict SpaceX Falcon 9 upper stage struck the moon early Wednesday near Einstein crater at more than 5,400 mph, creating a crater roughly 60 feet wide after drifting off course for about a year and a half. →

• Iran warned Gulf governments, in calls led by Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi, that another U.S. attack on Iranian territory would trigger retaliation against regional energy infrastructure, Reuters reported Wednesday. →

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AUGUST 6, 1945: AMERICAN BOMBER DROPS ATOMIC BOMB ON HIROSHIMA

Eighty years on, Hiroshima stands as the moment when industrialized, territorial world war collided with the ultimate weapon, helping to end World War II while freezing hard-won borders behind a nuclear shield. The attack accelerated Japan’s surrender and reshaped postwar geopolitics, but it also opened an era in which every major conflict has been shadowed by the threat of instant, civilization-ending escalation. Hiroshima’s legacy is thus dual: a brutal capstone to global total war, and the lasting warning that human survival itself is now tied to controlling the weapons first used there.

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