McPherson

• The McPherson County Commission is considering zoning regulations for data centers to protect local water supplies and electrical grids. →
• A traffic study recommends that the McPherson County Commission install four-way stops and rumble strips at a Moundridge intersection. →
• McPherson County motor vehicle registration fees will increase to $10 on July 1 to ensure the department is self-sustaining. →
• State Representative Mike King met with the McPherson County Commission to discuss property tax relief and reducing unfunded state mandates. →
• The city approved a $22,854 purchase of a Grizzly mosquito sprayer to replace 20-year-old equipment and reduce overnight staffing hours. →
• The City of McPherson honored Isabel Perry’s statewide poster win and planted 26 trees as part of an Arbor Day event at Lakeside Park. →
• The McPherson USD 418 Board of Education will meet tonight, April 28, to name a new superintendent from three finalists to replace Shiloh Vincent. →
• The McPherson High School girls varsity soccer team lost 2-1 in overtime to Bishop Miege during a home game on Friday. →
• The McPherson High School boys varsity tennis team placed fourth out of eight teams at a Saturday invitational held at Maize High School. →
• It’ll be a mostly cloudy day with a light northeast breeze and a high reaching 57 degrees.

🌾 Kansas

• Gov. Laura Kelly vetoed Republican-backed House Bill 2043, which would have allowed citizens to block local budgets growing property tax revenue faster than Midwest CPI or 3%, along with two other tax-related bills. →

• Kelly vetoed a bill mandating daily elementary school recess and a measure exempting agritourism operations from local building codes, citing legislative overreach into local authority. →

• Kelly signed Senate Bill 82, a bipartisan tax credit package allowing businesses to claim 75% of child care expenditures, a $0.05-per-gallon ethanol blend credit and a credit for gun storage device purchases. →

• Kelly signed Senate Bill 430 adding kratom's active compound mitragynine to Schedule I of Kansas controlled substances law, effectively banning its sale and possession statewide. →

• Kansas legal and government leaders convened in Topeka to address a growing access-to-justice crisis, with officials noting that roughly 75% of state court cases involve at least one unrepresented party. →

🇺🇸 US

• Iran offered regional mediators a deal that would halt its Strait of Hormuz attacks and shelve nuclear talks in exchange for an end to the war and lifting of the U.S. blockade of Iranian ports, but Trump expressed skepticism about Iranian good faith. →

• About 30% of car trade-in borrowers carried negative equity in the first quarter, owing an average of $7,200 before financing a new loan — a 42% jump from five years earlier — as pandemic-era vehicles purchased at inflated prices flood the market. →

• Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis proposed a congressional redistricting map Monday that could eliminate four Democratic-held seats, potentially leaving Democrats with as few as four of the state's 28 congressional seats. →

• The White House accused China-based groups of running large-scale operations using tens of thousands of fake accounts to repeatedly query U.S. AI models and use the responses to train rival systems, with official Michael Kratsios warning of coordinated campaigns to steal American AI breakthroughs. →

• A trade group representing low-cost carriers asked the Trump administration for $2.5 billion to offset jet fuel costs that have surged roughly 88% over the past few months due to the war with Iran, while Spirit Airlines separately negotiates a government loan of up to $500 million that could result in 90% federal ownership of the carrier. →

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April 28, 2004: U.S. Media Release Graphic Photos of American Soldiers Abusing Iraqi Prisoners at Abu Ghraib

The broadcast of graphic photographs on 60 Minutes II exposed systematic torture and humiliation of Iraqi detainees by U.S. personnel at the Abu Ghraib prison. The revelations shocked the American public, damaged the Bush administration’s justification for the Iraq War, and sparked global outrage over U.S. adherence to the Geneva Conventions.

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