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On the 2024 Primary Election ballot

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

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

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

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

Wil Fuentes, candidate for Clark County Council (Contributed photo)

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

April 25, 2024, 6:09am Clark County News Updated 2 days ago

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 Bowerman, who has not yet indicated whether she plans to run for reelection. 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

Ex-U.S. official alleges Israeli military gets ‘special treatment’

April 24, 2024, 7:42pm Nation & World

A former senior U.S. official who until recently helped oversee human-rights compliance by foreign militaries receiving American military assistance said Wednesday that he repeatedly observed Israel receiving “special treatment” from U.S. officials when it came to scrutiny of allegations of Israeli military abuses of Palestinian civilians. Read story

Russia vetoes U.N. resolution on outer space

April 24, 2024, 3:54pm Nation & World

Russia on Wednesday vetoed a U.N. resolution sponsored by the United States and Japan calling on all nations to prevent a dangerous nuclear arms race in outer space, calling it “a dirty spectacle” that cherry-picks weapons of mass destruction from all other weapons that should also be banned. Read story