Armed with a new legal directive arguing that presidents have the power to abolish national monuments created by their White House predecessors, President Donald Trump is expected to move to ...

The opinion concludes the Antiquities Act, established by Congress in 1906, allows the president to alter previous designations and decide that earlier national monuments, "either never were or no ...

A Justice Department legal opinion released Tuesday disavowed a 1938 determination that monuments created by previous presidents under the Antiquities Act can't be revoked.

Biden restored both monuments to their original size in 2021. Now there's worry after recent communication from the White House that Chuckwalla and Sáttítla Highlands in California could have ...

Republicans have introduced two bills in Congress that would end the president’s authority to create national monuments, while the new Interior secretary has moved on executive action that could ...

With a directive from the new Secretary of the Interior reviewing all National Monuments dating back to Theodore Roosevelt, we’re taking a fresh look at the 140-year-old public land protection ...

Interior Secretary Doug Burgum has directed his staff to review and possibly alter national monuments as part of a push to expand U.S. energy production, a move that could further shake up public ...

President Donald Trump has the power to abolish two national monuments in California established by his Democratic predecessor Joe Biden, as well as any others created by past presidents ...