Topeka

• Downtown Topeka businesses are preparing for the Kansas Department of Transportation to close I-70 this summer for viaduct construction. →
• A proposed ordinance regulating backyard chickens in the City of Topeka was sent back to committee for further review and amendments. →
• The City of Topeka is launching its summer property maintenance program, including two tire disposal events on June 6 and July 11. →
• The City of Topeka extended negotiations with Shawnee County and Endeavor Hotel Group regarding the future of Hotel Topeka. →
• A Shawnee County judge sentenced Joseph Pham-Gardner to 10 years in prison for pointing a gun at a Topeka police officer. →
• A Topeka man was arrested after allegedly discharging a firearm toward tree-service workers in Topeka on Wednesday. →
• Expect a cloudy day with showers and thunderstorms likely, especially between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m., along with a high near 79°F and gusty winds up to 25 mph.

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🌾 Kansas

• Kansas public higher education enrollment remains 10.7% below its 2012 peak, the Board of Regents reported at its May 20-21 meeting, though system-wide headcount has risen since the pandemic and out-of-state recruitment has reached record levels. →

• Gov. Laura Kelly joined two dozen Democratic governors and state attorneys general in an amicus brief filed May 26 urging a federal appeals court to block the Trump administration from deploying National Guard troops to Washington, D.C., arguing the move infringes on governors' command authority. →

• Gov. Kelly toured the under-construction 104-bed South Central Regional Mental Health Hospital in Wichita on May 26, calling it the first new state mental health facility built in Kansas in more than a century, with an opening scheduled for January 2027. →

• The USDA rated 58% of Kansas winter wheat poor or very poor in its May 27 crop report, with a hot, dry spring pushing some Sumner County farmers to begin harvesting as early as May 27, roughly two weeks ahead of schedule. →

• Lucas Youngers, 31, of Valley Center was bound over for trial May 27 in Sedgwick County District Court on four counts of rape and five counts of aggravated indecent liberties with a child involving two victims younger than 14, with arraignment set for July 21. →

🇺🇸 US

• An experimental gene-editing treatment reduced LDL cholesterol by as much as 62% after a single infusion in a small trial, with effects sustained in a subgroup treated 18 months earlier, according to results published in the New England Journal of Medicine. →

• LinkedIn projects today's college graduates will hold twice as many jobs over their careers as those who entered the workforce 15 years ago, while 42% of recent graduates ages 22–27 currently hold jobs that don't require a degree, up from 38% in early 2023. →

• The Pentagon is pursuing funding deals — potentially combining debt and equity — with drone companies including Performance Drone Works, Unusual Machines and Neros Technologies as part of a broader push to strengthen domestic production and lower costs. →

• Micron Technology's market cap surpassed $1 trillion for the first time after shares jumped roughly 18% on May 26, as the PHLX Semiconductor Index posted its best start to a year on record amid AI-driven demand for memory chips. →

• U.S. fighter jets shot down four Iranian drones and struck a drone-control station near Bandar Abbas after Tehran targeted commercial ships in the Strait of Hormuz, as Iran's economy buckles under a U.S. naval blockade that has collapsed oil revenue and pushed unemployment sharply higher. →

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MAY 28, 1964: PALESTINE LIBERATION ORGANIZATION IS FOUNDED

The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) was formed to unify various Palestinian groups in the struggle for a homeland. Under leaders like Yasir Arafat, it later gained international recognition but also faced internal tensions between militant and more moderate factions.

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