Salina

• The Salina City Commission discussed initial 2027 budget projections revealing an estimated $900,000 general fund shortfall. →
• The proposed 2027 Salina city budget includes a 1.5 percent cost-of-living adjustment and up to a 1.5 percent merit pay increase. →
• The Salina City Commission voted 4-1 to renew a three-year contract with Flock Safety for $198,000 to maintain 22 license plate readers. →
• Salina officials defended hiring a $30,000 consultant to evaluate the Salina Animal Shelter following public criticism of operations. →
• The Salina City Commission awarded a $782,411 contract to Diehl Enterprises to remove debris from the former Ambassador Hotel site. →
• Salina police arrested Sha’Quilla Weaver after she allegedly chased a man, sprayed Mace, and threatened him with a knife. →
• Grab your umbrella today, Salina, as we'll see mostly cloudy skies with showers and thunderstorms likely throughout the day and a high near 81°F.

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🌾 Kansas

• Former Republican Gov. Jeff Colyer dropped out of the 2026 Kansas gubernatorial race June 1, ending his campaign after President Trump endorsed Senate President Ty Masterson and leaving seven Republicans on the August 4 primary ballot. →

• Overland Park Mayor Curt Skoog filed for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination hours before the June 1 deadline, naming Dr. Jennifer Bacani McKenney as his running mate and joining a three-way primary against state Sens. Ethan Corson and Cindy Holscher. →

• Severe thunderstorms swept the Kansas City metro overnight June 1, waking soccer star Lionel Messi to a tornado warning during his first night in the city and causing widespread wind damage, downed trees and flash flooding across the region. →

• Jake Steel, a Harvard doctorate holder and former math teacher, officially became Kansas Commissioner of K-12 Education on June 1, succeeding Randy Watson, who led the department since 2014. →

• The Kansas Jayhawks will host Oklahoma in the program's first-ever NCAA Super Regional at Hoglund Ballpark after sweeping the Lawrence Regional, with game times to be announced June 2. →

🇺🇸 US

• President Trump signed a proclamation restructuring Section 232 tariffs on steel, aluminum and copper, lowering rates on agricultural equipment and HVAC components and reducing the domestic-content threshold for discounted rates, with changes taking effect June 8 through December 2027. →

• The Justice Department paused activation of Trump's $1.8 billion "anti-weaponization" fund under a court order, as Trump weighed scrapping the program amid Republican opposition and criticism that it would reward political allies with public money. →

• CBS News correspondent Scott Pelley confronted newly hired "60 Minutes" executive producer Nick Bilton at a staff meeting June 1, accusing network editor in chief Bari Weiss of "murdering" the program following the dismissal of veteran producers and correspondents. →

• Anthropic confidentially filed IPO paperwork on June 1, potentially taking the Claude AI maker — valued near $1 trillion — public as soon as this fall, as rival OpenAI also prepares its own offering. →

• Iran suspended U.S. ceasefire talks and vowed to keep the Strait of Hormuz closed, while Iranian Revolutionary Guard ballistic missiles struck toward U.S. forces in Kuwait — intercepted without casualties — marking the most serious escalation since the conflict began in February. →

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JUNE 2, 1997: TIMOTHY MCVEIGH CONVICTED FOR OKLAHOMA CITY BOMBING

A federal jury found Timothy McVeigh guilty on 15 counts of murder and conspiracy for his role in the 1995 truck bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. The attack, which killed 168 people including 19 children, was the deadliest act of domestic terrorism in U.S. history at the time.

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