Topeka

• Endeavor Hotel Group plans to finalize its purchase of Hotel Topeka regardless of pending negotiations with the Shawnee County Commission. →
• The Topeka City Council voted to approve $16,289.25 in funding to repair a broken chiller unit at the downtown Hotel Topeka property. →
• The Topeka City Council discussed a failed legislative effort in the Kansas Senate to allow local inspections of HUD-subsidized housing. →
• Topeka City Council members requested a usage-based billing model and direct online access for residents to smart meter data. →
• Topeka Public Works staff are mobilizing to clear streets and address damage following severe storms in Topeka and Shawnee County. →
• Topeka residents Kyle J. Valle and Lia J. Corbin pleaded not guilty to charges in the murder of a five-year-old Topeka girl. →
• Expect a mostly sunny and breezy Thursday in Topeka with a high near 90°F, though you'll want to watch out for a slight chance of showers and thunderstorms midday alongside gusty winds up to 40 mph.

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🌾 Kansas

• Sedgwick County commissioners voted unanimously to approve up to $450 million in industrial revenue bonds for Boeing's Wichita campus expansion, completing a roughly $100 million, 10-year property tax abatement package. →

• Evergy restored power to more than 92% of the 118,000 customers left without electricity after a June 8 windstorm with 115-mph gusts snapped more than 500 utility poles across the Salina region. →

• Midwest ER tick-bite visits are running ahead of last year's pace, with CDC data showing Kansas and surrounding states on track to surpass 628 visits per 100,000 ER visits recorded in all of 2025. →

• The Kansas City Chiefs extended quarterback Patrick Mahomes through 2033 with a record $504.75 million contract, the first NFL deal to exceed half a billion dollars. →

• Kansas City's FIFA Fan Festival opens Thursday at the National WWI Museum and Memorial with free admission, a 30,000-square-foot FIFA store and new regional transit routes, ahead of the city's first World Cup match June 16. →

🇺🇸 US

• The 2026 FIFA World Cup will open Thursday at Estadio Azteca in Mexico City with host nation Mexico facing South Africa, marking the first World Cup to feature 48 teams across three host countries — the United States, Mexico and Canada. →

• The U.S. and Iran exchanged strikes early Thursday, with Iran declaring the Strait of Hormuz closed to all vessel traffic and warning of a "crushing and decisive" response after President Trump vowed continued military pressure to force a negotiated end to the war. →

• U.S. strikes on southern Iran on June 10 destroyed two water reservoirs in Sirik's Bamani district, cutting off drinking water to roughly 20,000 residents amid temperatures exceeding 113 degrees Fahrenheit, with Iranian officials calling the attack a war crime. →

• U.S. inflation rose to 4.2 percent annually in May — the highest in three years — driven largely by a 23.5 percent surge in energy prices linked to the Iran war's disruption of Middle Eastern oil supplies, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported June 10. →

• Democrats and environmentalists are softening their opposition to oil and gas production as spiking energy prices and inflation, driven by the Middle East war, reshape the politics of climate change within the party. →

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JUNE 11, 1963: UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA DESEGREGATED

Two Black students, Vivian Malone and James A. Hood, enrolled at the University of Alabama after federalized National Guard troops forced Governor George Wallace to end his attempt to physically block their registration. This confrontation marked a pivotal enforcement of Brown v. Board of Education and a major federal stand against segregation in higher education.

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