Salina

• Severe storms in Salina caused roof and interior damage to the Salina Central Mall, forcing the facility to close to the public. →
• The Kansas Department of Insurance is offering claim assistance to Saline County residents affected by the April 27 hail storm. →
• The Salina City Commission approved a $9.1 million plan to fund Fire Station No. 4 using $4.1 million in cash and $5 million in debt. →
• The Salina City Commission voted to contribute $167,732 toward a $317,428 expansion and improvement project at the Sunset Park War Memorial. →
• The Salina City Commission levied special assessments for infrastructure in six developments, including Cedar Point and Liberty Addition. →
• Two Salina Animal Shelter leaders appeared in Saline County District Court Monday on animal cruelty charges regarding three puppies. →
• Salina Police arrested Miguel Martinez for child endangerment after he left two young children in a running car at the Salina Public Library. →
• Salina Police and the Saline County Sheriff’s Office are investigating a vehicle theft after a car was found on fire on Burma Road. →
• Ell-Saline High School baseball team lost a home doubleheader in Brookville to Moundridge High School with final scores of 7-4 and 11-6. →
• Expect a mostly cloudy day with a high of 58 and just a slight chance of a stray shower passing through between mid-morning and early afternoon.

🌾 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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