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Ex-police officer jailed awaiting trial in Capitol riot case

July 30, 2021, 11:52am Nation & World

A federal judge has ordered the pretrial detention of a former police officer from Virginia who is accused of ordering guns after he was charged with participating in the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol. Read story

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., arrives to meet with Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., before an event to promote investments in clean jobs, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, July 28, 2021. (AP Photo/J.

Congress poised passes Capitol security money, Afghan visas

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., arrives to meet with Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., before an event to promote investments in clean jobs, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, July 28, 2021. (AP Photo/J.

July 29, 2021, 1:05pm Politics

Congress overwhelmingly passed emergency legislation Thursday that would bolster security at the Capitol, repay outstanding debts from the violent Jan. 6 insurrection and increase the number of visas for allies who worked alongside Americans in the Afghanistan war. Read story

Trump trashes GOP for allowing debate on Biden’s $1T infrastructure bill: ‘No deal is better than a bad deal’

July 29, 2021, 10:28am Politics

Former President Donald Trump trashed Senate Republicans Thursday after they agreed to open debate on President Joe Biden’s $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure package. Read story

This undated photo provided by Elizabeth Turner, Laurentian University, shows a field location in Northwest Territories, Canada. Canadian geologist Elizabeth Turner may have found the earliest fossil record of animal life on Earth in the area shown, according to a report published Wednesday, July 28, 2021, in the journal Nature.

First sign of animal life on Earth may be a sponge fossil

This undated photo provided by Elizabeth Turner, Laurentian University, shows a field location in Northwest Territories, Canada. Canadian geologist Elizabeth Turner may have found the earliest fossil record of animal life on Earth in the area shown, according to a report published Wednesday, July 28, 2021, in the journal Nature.

July 28, 2021, 7:52pm Nation & World

A Canadian geologist may have found the earliest fossil record of animal life on Earth, according to a report published Wednesday in the journal Nature. Read story

Masks on. Masks off. Masks on again at White House, as COVID variant threat grows

July 28, 2021, 9:16am Politics

A little more than two months ago, a beaming President Joe Biden stepped into the Rose Garden to announce that vaccinated Americans no longer needed to wear masks indoors. So much progress had been made against the coronavirus, now they could go back to “greeting others with a smile.” Read story

A patient has her body temperature screened after showing her COVID-19 vaccine card at the Cl?nica Monse?or Oscar A. Romero in the Pico-Union district of Los Angeles, Monday, July 26, 2021. The clinic is a COVID-19 vaccine site. California said it will require proof of vaccination or weekly testing for all state workers and millions of public- and private-sector health care employees starting in August.

EXPLAINER: Employers have legal right to mandate COVID shots

A patient has her body temperature screened after showing her COVID-19 vaccine card at the Cl?nica Monse?or Oscar A. Romero in the Pico-Union district of Los Angeles, Monday, July 26, 2021. The clinic is a COVID-19 vaccine site. California said it will require proof of vaccination or weekly testing for all state workers and millions of public- and private-sector health care employees starting in August.

July 28, 2021, 8:53am Business

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. The state of California. New York City. Hospitals and nursing homes. Colleges and universities. Employers are putting COVID-19 vaccine mandates into place and it’s getting attention. Read story

In this July 23, 2021 photo, President Joe Biden speaks at a campaign event for Virginia democratic gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe at Lubber Run Park in Arlington, Va.  Biden will make his first visit to an agency of the U.S. intelligence community under sharply different circumstances than his predecessor, who often railed against the so-called "deep state" and openly questioned its conclusions. Biden is scheduled Tuesday afternoon to visit the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, which by law oversees the nation's 17 intelligence organizations.

Analysis: Washington is a lobbying boom town under Biden

In this July 23, 2021 photo, President Joe Biden speaks at a campaign event for Virginia democratic gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe at Lubber Run Park in Arlington, Va.  Biden will make his first visit to an agency of the U.S. intelligence community under sharply different circumstances than his predecessor, who often railed against the so-called "deep state" and openly questioned its conclusions. Biden is scheduled Tuesday afternoon to visit the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, which by law oversees the nation's 17 intelligence organizations.

July 27, 2021, 6:30pm Politics

Democrats who control Capitol Hill have invested copious amounts of messaging this year on overhauling the nation’s political money and influence systems, but both sectors appear poised to smash records nevertheless. Read story

House Minority Whip Steve Scalise, R-La., joined by House Republican Conference Chair Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., left, and members of the GOP Doctors Caucus, speaks during a news conference about the Delta variant of COVID-19 and the origin of the virus, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, July 22, 2021. (AP Photo/J.

GOP’s vaccine push comes with strong words, few actions

House Minority Whip Steve Scalise, R-La., joined by House Republican Conference Chair Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., left, and members of the GOP Doctors Caucus, speaks during a news conference about the Delta variant of COVID-19 and the origin of the virus, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, July 22, 2021. (AP Photo/J.

July 23, 2021, 8:46am Politics

Republican politicians are under increasing pressure to speak out to persuade COVID-19 vaccine skeptics to roll up their sleeves and take the shots as a new, more contagious variant sends caseloads soaring. But after months of ignoring — and, in some cases, stoking — misinformation about the virus, experts warn… Read story

Leslie Lewallen and Gary Perman are both running for Camas City Council.

Two Camas council candidates get bump from Madore

Leslie Lewallen and Gary Perman are both running for Camas City Council.

July 23, 2021, 6:02am Clark County News

When it comes to collecting campaign contributions, two of the eight Camas City Council candidates running in the Aug. 3 primary election have greatly outpaced their competitors. Read story

Senate bill would require women to register for the draft

July 22, 2021, 1:45pm Politics

The Senate Armed Services Committee included language in its version of the fiscal 2022 National Defense Authorization Act to require women, for the first time, to register for the draft. Read story