McPherson

• Incumbent Keith Becker defeated challenger Stephen Gray in the Republican primary for the McPherson County Commission 1st District seat. →
• Voters in Smoky Valley USD 400 approved a $21 million general obligation bond for school building repairs and a new agricultural facility. →
• The McPherson Board of Zoning Appeals discussed extending or making permanent a temporary moratorium on data centers expiring in December. →
• McPherson College renamed its athletic facility to Brubaker Family Stadium in honor of alumnus Earl J. Brubaker and his family. →
• The McPherson Police Department reported a drop in service calls and traffic citations over the past year, according to KBI statistics. →
• However, the department reported 47 aggravated assaults over the past year, an increase of 31 incidents tied to domestic disputes. →
• A City of Salina employee died Tuesday after a zero-turn lawnmower rolled into the river at Oakdale Park in Salina. →
• Attorneys for former Marion Police Chief Gideon Cody requested to withdraw from his felony defense case due to a breakdown in relationship. →
• Expect a slight chance of morning showers and thunderstorms before clearing up for a partly sunny day with a high near 84°F.

🌾 Kansas

• Kansas voters rejected a constitutional amendment Tuesday that would have replaced merit-based selection of state Supreme Court justices with direct elections, with about 62% voting no. →

• Senate President Ty Masterson and state Sen. Cindy Holscher won their parties' primaries for Kansas governor Tuesday, setting up a November race to succeed term-limited Gov. Laura Kelly. →

• Pastor Adam Hamilton won the Democratic U.S. Senate nomination Tuesday and will face Republican incumbent Sen. Roger Marshall, who easily won his primary, in November. →

• Kansas City, Kansas Public Schools met a Justice Department deadline Tuesday with a letter denying it enforces a transgender-student guideline that federal officials say violates parents' records rights under FERPA. →

• A Citizen Journal review of its database of more than 1,000 public meetings found Kansas communities continuing to approve major property-tax abatements after a state audit estimated $1.1 billion in forgone revenue, including substantial funding that otherwise would have supported schools. →

🇺🇸 US

• NBC News projected progressive candidate Abdul El-Sayed as the winner of Michigan's Democratic U.S. Senate primary, though the AP had not called the race as of early Wednesday with El-Sayed leading Rep. Haley Stevens 48.6% to 47.4%. →

• Eli Lilly announced Aug. 3 that a limited number of severely obese adults with related illnesses may apply for early access to its experimental next-gen weight-loss drug retatrutide before FDA approval. →

• A Saudi-led consortium including Silver Lake and Jared Kushner's Affinity Partners completed its roughly $55 billion acquisition of Electronic Arts on Aug. 4, the largest leveraged buyout on record. →

• SpaceX, Palantir, and AMD posted blowout earnings Tuesday, driving the S&P 500 and Dow to record closes on surging AI demand. →

• U.S. crude prices dropped about 6% Tuesday amid reports of progress on an Iran-Oman arrangement to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, even as a cargo ship was struck near Oman and another vessel sank after a Houthi-linked attack in the Red Sea. →

Weather

AUGUST 5, 1858: FIRST TRANSATLANTIC TELEGRAPH CABLE COMPLETED

The United States and Britain successfully laid nearly 2,000 miles of undersea telegraph cable between Newfoundland and Ireland, briefly shrinking communication time across the Atlantic from weeks to minutes. Though the fragile line failed within a month, it marked a pivotal early step toward the global communications networks that now link continents in real time.

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