Newton

• Shield AI selected Newton City-County Airport as the flight-test and maintenance hub for its autonomous X-BAT aircraft program. →
• The Newton City Commission decided to pass credit-card processing fees to card-paying customers, saving an estimated $260,000. →
• The Harvey County Commission plans to examine county finances to find ways to ease rising property tax burdens on local residents. →
• The Harvey County Commission approved a conditional use permit to operate a retail quilt shop and studio classrooms at 4906 N. H Road. →
• Newton High School students presented their Career and Technical Education experiences to the Newton USD 373 Board of Education. →
• Newton Public Library is accepting waitlist registrations for authors wishing to join its second Local Author Day on Nov. 7. →
• Expect a beautiful, sunny Friday in Newton with a breezy high near 68°F.

🌾 Kansas

• The Democratic Governors Association released a digital ad Oct. 1 linking Republican gubernatorial nominee Ty Masterson to Sam Brownback's tax cuts, which Masterson called a "lie" based on deceptive editing. →

• Democratic U.S. Senate nominee Adam Hamilton's campaign refused Sen. Roger Marshall's demand to pull an ad about his former practice's medical-debt collection tactics, instead sending a letter warning against frivolous litigation. →

• The Olathe school board voted 7-0 Oct. 1 to close five elementary schools and one middle school after the 2026-27 school year, affecting about 2,200 students, while United Teachers of Wichita rallied Sept. 30 to support USD 259's $615 million bond on the Nov. 3 ballot. →

• Riley County commissioners agreed Oct. 1 to extend the county's moratorium on data centers and battery energy storage systems by six months to await possible state legislative action in 2027. →

• Gov. Laura Kelly issued a verbal statewide disaster emergency declaration Sept. 30 as remnants of Hurricane Polo merged with a storm system, prompting a flash flood emergency in Dodge City and Ford County and washing out roads statewide. →

🇺🇸 US

• Manufacturing output and unemployment claims stayed strong in September even as prices and oil costs rose, with the ISM manufacturing index hitting 54.5 and jobless claims falling to 197,000. →

• British counterterrorism police arrested a 27-year-old British-Iranian man in London on Oct. 1 in an investigation into a possible Iranian link to a security incident at RAF Fairford air base. →

• The Supreme Court agreed Oct. 1 to decide whether the Trump administration can hold immigrants arrested in the U.S. without bond hearings while their deportation cases proceed. →

• The FDA approved Edwards Lifesciences' Autus valve, the first expandable artificial pulmonary valve for children with congenital heart disease, the company announced Oct. 1. →

• President Trump said in a Time interview published Oct. 1 that heavier U.S. bombing of Iran after the Nov. 3 midterms was "possible," as the USS Theodore Roosevelt carrier group headed to the Middle East. →

Weather

October 2, 2020: President Trump and First Lady Test Positive for COVID-19

On October 2, 2020, President Donald Trump announced via Twitter that he and First Lady Melania Trump had tested positive for COVID-19 amid a resurgence of the pandemic. The diagnosis followed a White House event for Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett and came just days after Trump’s first presidential debate against Joe Biden.

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