Manhattan

• The Riley County Commission received a proposed agreement to review a $20.5 million plan to relocate the county fairgrounds. →
• The Riley County Appraiser warned county commissioners that state property tax exemptions are eroding the local tax base. →
• Riley County announced that construction will begin Aug. 13 on a long-awaited sanitary sewer project in the community of Keats. →
• Riley County officials briefed commissioners on battery storage fire risks while maintaining a moratorium on new developments. →
• The Board of Riley County Commissioners approved a grant application to expand its remote worker program to recruit 15 more workers. →
• Riley County Police Department Reports 10 Arrests Aug. 5-6 →
• Grab an umbrella just in case for a few morning showers and thunderstorms, but expect mostly sunny skies later today with a high near 90°F.

🌾 Kansas

• Evergy reported a second-quarter profit of $215 million, driven by growing electricity demand from data centers, and reaffirmed its earnings outlook through 2030. →

• A Citizen Journal review found Kansas governments and school districts scrambling to repair aging power, water, bridge and cooling systems as equipment reaches the end of its service life. →

• The U.S. Department of Homeland Security bought CoreCivic's 1,033-bed Midwest Regional Reception Center in Leavenworth for $238.4 million, raising questions about future city tax payments and local oversight. →

• Bonner Springs-Edwardsville USD 204 deployed ZeroEyes AI gun detection software across its schools, funded through a state grant program. →

• A Citizen Journal review found Kansas communities including Salina, Hays, Emporia, Lawrence and Abilene advancing plans to convert vacant motels, schools, stores and civic buildings into housing. →

🇺🇸 US

• Initial unemployment claims rose by 1,000 to 199,000 for the week ending Aug. 1, marking a third straight week below 200,000, the longest such streak since 1969. →

• The Pentagon's deputy secretary convened an emergency meeting over weapons shortages after President Trump made an angry call, as years of arms transfers to Ukraine and use in Yemen and Iran have strained U.S. munitions stocks across multiple theaters. →

• SpaceX will build a $16.8 billion semiconductor campus in Grimes County, Texas, creating 3,000 jobs, Gov. Greg Abbott announced Aug. 6. →

• A New Mexico judge ordered Meta on Aug. 6 to pay $567 million for youth-harm remediation programs, bringing the company's total liability in the case to $942 million. →

• Ukraine struck Russian oil refineries in Bashkortostan and Yaroslavl overnight into Aug. 6, part of a deepening campaign against Russian fuel and retail infrastructure, as German investigators found a bomb-laden drone near a Ukrainian cargo plane at Leipzig/Halle Airport. →

Weather

AUGUST 7, 1998: U.S. EMBASSIES IN EAST AFRICA BOMBED

The twin embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania marked a violent escalation of Islamist militancy that had been building since the 1979 Iranian Revolution galvanized anti-American sentiment across the Muslim world. The attacks, orchestrated by Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaeda network, foreshadowed the 9/11 strikes and helped lay the ideological and operational groundwork for the U.S.-led Global War on Terror.

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