Trump officials are analyzing whether to remove federal protections for national monuments spanning millions of acres in the West, according to two people familiar with the matter and an internal ...

President Donald Trump has broad authority to revoke protected land designated as national monuments by past presidents, the Justice Department said in a new legal opinion. The May 27 legal ...

Trump officials are analyzing whether to remove federal protections for national monuments spanning millions of acres in the West, according to two people familiar with the matter and an internal ...

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 ...

This wouldn't be the first time the Trump administration has taken a metaphorical axe to national monuments. In 2017, Trump ordered a review of more than 25 monuments with the goal of mining ...

Citing the “vandalism” of monuments, Republican state lawmakers passed a law in 2021 that prevents Fort Smith from removing its monument and supplants local control over dozens of other ...

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 ...

READ: Text of House Bill 395 (Protection of Historical Monuments and Memorials) Officials who vote to remove a monument could be subject to a civil penalty of up to $5,000 or the cost to remove ...

Monuments represent “an emotional and politically charged topic,” Sturkey said. That is particularly true in the South, where thousands of Confederate statues and monuments remain standing ...