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Vancouver man seeks county position: Wil Fuentes will run for District 3 seat held by Bowerman

April 25, 2024, 6:09am Clark County News

Vancouver resident Wil Fuentes announced Tuesday he will run for the Clark County Council District 3 seat in the upcoming 2024 general election. The seat is currently held by Karen… Read story

Ridgefield school bond still failing to get supermajority in second round of election results

April 24, 2024, 3:07pm Clark County News

Wednesday’s second round of ballots counted in Tuesday’s special election yielded no change to the results of measures in Camas and Ridgefield. With just 200 ballots left to count across… Read story

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Former President Donald Trump appears at Manhattan criminal court before his trial in New York, Thursday, April 25, 2024.(Spencer Platt/Pool Photo via AP)

Former tabloid publisher testifies about scheme to shield his old friend Trump from damaging stories

Former President Donald Trump appears at Manhattan criminal court before his trial in New York, Thursday, April 25, 2024.(Spencer Platt/Pool Photo via AP)

April 25, 2024, 12:47pm Latest News

As Donald Trump was running for president in 2016, his old friend at the National Enquirer was scooping up potentially damaging stories about the candidate and paying out tens of thousands of dollars to keep them from the public eye. Read story

Arizona Rep. Stephanie Stahl Hamilton, D-Tucson, speaks to reporters after a vote on the proposed repeal of Arizona&rsquo;s near-total ban on abortions prior to won approval from the state House Wednesday, April 24, 2024, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Ross D.

US abortion battle rages on with moves to repeal Arizona ban and a Supreme Court case

Arizona Rep. Stephanie Stahl Hamilton, D-Tucson, speaks to reporters after a vote on the proposed repeal of Arizona&rsquo;s near-total ban on abortions prior to won approval from the state House Wednesday, April 24, 2024, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Ross D.

April 25, 2024, 8:29am Nation & World

Action in courts and state capitals around the U.S. this week have made it clear again: The overturning of Roe v. Wade and the nationwide right to abortion did not settle the issue. Read story

Khalil al-Hayya, a high-ranking Hamas official who has represented the Palestinian militant group in negotiations for a cease-fire and hostage exchange deal, speaks during an interview with The Associated Press, in Istanbul, Turkey, Wednesday, April 24, 2024.

Hamas official says group would lay down its arms if an independent Palestinian state is established

Khalil al-Hayya, a high-ranking Hamas official who has represented the Palestinian militant group in negotiations for a cease-fire and hostage exchange deal, speaks during an interview with The Associated Press, in Istanbul, Turkey, Wednesday, April 24, 2024.

April 25, 2024, 8:22am Nation & World

A top Hamas political official told The Associated Press the Islamic militant group is willing to agree to a truce of five years or more with Israel and that it would lay down its weapons and convert into a political party if an independent Palestinian state is established along pre-1967… Read story

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban arrives at the third Hungarian edition of the Conservative Political Action Conference, CPAC Hungary, in Budapest, Hungary, Thursday, April 25, 2024.

Hungary’s Orbán urges European conservatives, and Trump, toward election victories at CPAC event

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban arrives at the third Hungarian edition of the Conservative Political Action Conference, CPAC Hungary, in Budapest, Hungary, Thursday, April 25, 2024.

April 25, 2024, 8:10am Nation & World

Hungary’s nationalist prime minister, addressing a conservative conference in Budapest on Thursday, said upcoming European and U.S. elections were a chance for right-wing forces to defeat the “progressive world spirit,” and encouraged former U.S. President Donald Trump to defend “his own truth” in his ongoing criminal trial. Read story

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, center, shakes hands with Scott Walker, Consul General at the U.S Consulate General in Shanghai, as Blinken prepares to depart, Thursday, April 25, 2024, from the Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport in Shanghai, China, en route to Beijing.

Blinken raises Chinese trade practices in meetings with officials in the financial hub of Shanghai

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, center, shakes hands with Scott Walker, Consul General at the U.S Consulate General in Shanghai, as Blinken prepares to depart, Thursday, April 25, 2024, from the Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport in Shanghai, China, en route to Beijing.

April 25, 2024, 8:08am Nation & World

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken raised what the U.S. describes as unfair Chinese trade practices during his first full day of meetings in China on Thursday with local government officials in the financial hub of Shanghai. Read story

Activist Stephen Parlato of Boulder, Colo., right, joins other protesters outside the Supreme Court as the justices prepare to hear arguments over whether Donald Trump is immune from prosecution in a case charging him with plotting to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, April 25, 2024. (AP Photo/J.

Supreme Court arguments begin over Trump’s claim of absolute immunity from prosecution

Activist Stephen Parlato of Boulder, Colo., right, joins other protesters outside the Supreme Court as the justices prepare to hear arguments over whether Donald Trump is immune from prosecution in a case charging him with plotting to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, April 25, 2024. (AP Photo/J.

April 25, 2024, 7:47am Latest News

Supreme Court arguments have begun over whether former President Donald Trump can avoid prosecution over his efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss to Democrat Joe Biden. Read story

FILE - President Joe Biden speaks about an agreement to provide Intel with up to $8.5 billion in direct funding and $11 billion in loans for computer chip plants in Arizona, Ohio, New Mexico and Oregon, at the Intel Ocotillo Campus, March 20, 2024, in Chandler, Ariz. The Biden administration has reached an agreement to provide up to $6.4 billion in direct funding for Samsung Electronics to develop a computer chip manufacturing and research cluster in Texas. The government has previously announced terms to support other chipmakers, including Intel and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., in projects that are spread across the country.

As Biden celebrates computer chip factories, voters wait for the promised production to start

FILE - President Joe Biden speaks about an agreement to provide Intel with up to $8.5 billion in direct funding and $11 billion in loans for computer chip plants in Arizona, Ohio, New Mexico and Oregon, at the Intel Ocotillo Campus, March 20, 2024, in Chandler, Ariz. The Biden administration has reached an agreement to provide up to $6.4 billion in direct funding for Samsung Electronics to develop a computer chip manufacturing and research cluster in Texas. The government has previously announced terms to support other chipmakers, including Intel and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., in projects that are spread across the country.

April 25, 2024, 7:40am Business

President Joe Biden has a great economic story to tell voters a decade from now, less so in 2024. Read story

Washington State Public Disclosure Commission discusses AI, money in politics at monthly event in Vancouver

April 25, 2024, 6:00am Clark County News

The Washington State Public Disclosure Commission held its regular monthly meeting Wednesday at the Hilton Vancouver Washington as part of an ongoing effort to do more outreach throughout the state. Read story