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Clark County Auditor Greg Kimsey, left, helps a voter drop off their ballot at the ballot box in downtown Vancouver on March 12.

Voting underway in primary election; Crowded local, state races will be thinned in Aug. 6 vote

July 31, 2024, 6:05am Clark County News

Registered voters in Clark County have begun casting their ballots for next week’s primary election. Read story

This composite left to right, shows North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper, June 28, 2024, in Raleigh, N.C., Sen. Mark Kelly, D-Ariz., June 4, 2024, in Washington, Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, July 20, 2024, in Pittsburgh, and Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear in Frankfort, Ky., July 22, 2024.

The Democratic contest to be Harris’ running mate will likely be decided in the next week

July 30, 2024, 5:30pm Latest News

Democrat Josh Shapiro had a dual message for enthusiastic voters in suburban Philadelphia this week, telling them Kamala Harris belongs in the White House — and then reminding them of all he’s done as governor of battleground Pennsylvania. Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear, likewise, told voters in Georgia that Harris has… Read story

FILE - Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump, left, and Republican vice presidential candidate Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, attend the Republican National Convention, July 15, 2024, in Milwaukee. Vice President Kamala Harris and her Democratic allies are increasingly branding Trump and Vance as “weird.” Democrats are applying the label with gusto in interviews and online.

Why Harris and Democrats keep calling Trump and Vance ‘weird’

July 30, 2024, 1:39pm Nation & World

Vice President Kamala Harris and her Democratic allies are emphasizing a new line of criticism against Republicans — branding Donald Trump and his running mate, Ohio Sen. JD Vance, as “weird.” Read story

FILE — Isabella Cimato, 17, from left, Arianna Schaden, 14, and Sofia Harrison, 15, check their phones at Roosevelt Field shopping mall in Garden City, N.Y., on July 27, 2015. The last time Congress passed a law to protect children on the internet was in 1998, before Facebook, the iPhone and long before today’s oldest teenagers were born. Now, a bill aiming to protect kids from the harms of social media, gaming sites and other online platforms appears to have enough bipartisan support to pass, though whether it actually will remains uncertain.

Senate passes bill to protect kids online and make tech companies accountable for harmful content

July 30, 2024, 1:30pm Latest News

The Senate is expected to pass legislation Tuesday that is designed to protect children from dangerous online content, pushing forward with what would be the first major effort by Congress in decades to hold tech companies more accountable for the harm that they cause. Read story

Vice President Kamala Harris, left, and second gentleman Doug Emhoff address staff at her campaign headquarters in Wilmington, Del., Monday, July 22, 2024.

Donald Trump says Kamala Harris, who’s married to a Jewish man, ‘doesn’t like Jewish people’

July 30, 2024, 12:02pm Latest News

Former President Donald Trump in an interview on Tuesday claimed Vice President Kamala Harris, who is married to a Jewish man, “doesn’t like Jewish people" and seemed to agree with a radio host who called second gentleman Doug Emhoff “a crappy Jew.” Read story

White House says no need to restrict ‘open-source’ artificial intelligence — at least for now

July 30, 2024, 9:20am Business

The White House is coming out in favor of “open-source” artificial intelligence technology, arguing in a report Tuesday that there’s no need right now for restrictions on companies making key components of their powerful AI systems widely available. Read story