McPherson

• McPherson received an $805,000 KDOT grant covering 80% of costs to extend the Northview multi-use trail east to Maxwell Street. →
• Crews began a $56,400 resurfacing project on the McPherson Water Park lazy river after approval by the McPherson City Commission. →
• Canton-Galva USD 419 will open its new public track, funded by a $4.275 million voter-approved bond issue, on Sept. 5. →
• The McPherson High School boys and girls cross country teams enter the 2026 season targeting state qualification with key returners. →
• The USDA awarded $95,000 to the Citizen Journal Foundation to help McPherson County businesses develop online operations. →
• Expect mostly sunny skies and warm conditions today across McPherson with light northeast winds and a high near 92°F.

🌾 Kansas

• Kansas will receive more than $134 million from a multistate settlement with Meta Platforms over claims it made Instagram addictive and harmful to young users, Attorney General Kris Kobach announced Aug. 26. →

• El Dorado's City Commission voted Aug. 25 to send a proposed 10-year ban on large-scale data centers and battery storage facilities to voters on the Nov. 3 ballot. →

• The University of Kansas rowing team relocated practices to Clinton Lake after debris damaged Bowersock Dam, lowering the Kansas River pool and stranding the team's boathouse. →

• DeFlock Riley County, a newly formed residents' group, held its first public meeting Aug. 26 in Manhattan to organize opposition to Flock Safety license-plate reader cameras. →

• Douglas County District Judge James McCabria consolidated two legal challenges to Kansas' transgender driver's license and restroom law, Senate Bill 244, and set a trial for September. →

🇺🇸 US

• Meta agreed Aug. 26 to a roughly $17 billion multistate settlement over claims it designed Facebook and Instagram to keep children hooked, adding default teen usage limits without a jury verdict. →

• CIA Director John Ratcliffe made a secret Aug. 25 trip to Moscow to warn Russian officials against attacking a NATO country, marking the first such visit by a CIA chief since 2021. →

• President Trump signed an executive order Aug. 26 declaring a national emergency over foreign-made power grid equipment, authorizing the government to monitor, isolate or replace at-risk components. →

• Nvidia reported $96.2 billion in fiscal second-quarter revenue, more than double a year earlier, and forecast about $108 billion in current-quarter revenue. →

• The Secret Service is reviewing an Iranian state media video that appears to threaten Barron Trump, showing known locations tied to him and offering a purported $10 million bounty. →

Weather

AUGUST 27 1883: KRAKATOA ERUPTS WITH CATACLYSMIC FORCE

One of the most powerful volcanic eruptions in recorded history blows apart the island of Krakatoa, hurling ash 50 miles into the sky and generating colossal tsunamis up to 120 feet high. The explosions, heard 3,000 miles away and likely the loudest sound ever recorded in human history, devastate nearby coasts, kill an estimated 36,000 people, and send ash into the atmosphere that cools global temperatures and creates vivid sunsets worldwide.

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