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FILE - The New York Stock Exchange is shown on July 17, 2024, in New York. Global shares are mostly lower on Thursday, July 18, 2024, with Tokyo’s benchmark dipping more than 2%, after Wall Street’s record-breaking rally slammed into a wall of worries over potentially worsening trade tensions with China.

Stock market today: Wall Street climbs as Big Tech recovers following worst week in months

July 22, 2024, 1:52pm Business

U.S. stocks closed broadly higher on Wall Street Monday, clawing back some of the losses from their worst week since April. Read story

FILE - President Joe Biden attends a Medal of Honor Ceremony at the White House in Washington, July 3, 2024. Biden dropped out of the 2024 race for the White House on Sunday, July 21, ending his bid for reelection following a disastrous debate with Donald Trump that raised doubts about his fitness for office just four months before the election.

What Biden’s exit means for WA ballot

July 22, 2024, 9:57am Election

President Joe Biden's decision to end his candidacy has a different meaning in different states, because each state has its own rules when it comes to general election ballots. Read story

Palestinians displaced by the Israeli air and ground offensive on the Gaza Strip flee from parts of Khan Younis following an evacuation order by the Israeli army to leave the eastern part of Gaza Strip’s second largest city, Monday, July 22, 2024.

Israel orders evacuation of part of Gaza humanitarian zone as war’s toll passes 39,000 Palestinians

July 22, 2024, 9:09am Latest News

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — The Israeli military ordered the evacuation Monday of part of a crowded area in the Gaza Strip it had designated a humanitarian zone, saying it is planning an operation against Hamas militants there. Read story

U.S. Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle testifies about the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump at a campaign event in Pennsylvania before the House Oversight and Accountability Committee, at the Capitol, Monday, July 22, 2024 in Washington.

Secret Service director, grilled by lawmakers on the Trump assassination attempt, says: ‘We failed’

July 22, 2024, 9:03am Latest News

Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle said Monday that her agency failed in its mission to protect former President Donald Trump during a highly contentious congressional hearing with lawmakers of both major political parties demanding she resign over security failures that allowed a gunman to scale a roof and open fire at a… Read story

Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez hosts a child care roundtable with Clark County first responders at Vancouver City Hall on June 20.

Here’s how some Democratic leaders in Washington responded to Biden’s announcement

July 22, 2024, 7:48am Clark County Politics

Prominent Democrats in Washington took to social media Sunday to praise President Joe Biden and his decision to withdraw from the presidential race, and some of them backed his endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris to be the party's presidential nominee. Read story

Biden’s decision to drop out leaves Democrats across the country relieved and looking toward future

July 22, 2024, 7:38am Latest News

After weeks of uncertainty about who would be at the top of the Democratic Party’s ticket in November, many voters expressed relief over the news that President Joe Biden would drop his reelection bid and began to think about who might replace him in a dramatically altered election landscape. Read story

Night skies in the Gorge are getting brighter. This group is pushing back

Michael McKeag uses a laser pointer during a night-sky presentation in Hood River, Ore.

July 22, 2024, 6:05am Latest News

Two Gorge residents in Oregon are trying to convince Hood River County officials that light pollution is on the rise and that adopting “dark sky” policies for outdoor lighting will help bring traditional nighttime back to the Columbia River Gorge. Read story