Trump officials say presidents can abolish monuments created by predecessors, and California's newest ones — Chuckwalla and Sáttítla Highlands — are vulnerable.

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Lawyers for President Donald Trump’s administration say he has the authority to abolish national monuments meant to protect historical and archaeological sites across broad ...

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Lawyers for President Donald Trump's administration say he has the authority to abolish national monuments meant to protect historical and archaeological sites across ...

After brief discussion, the Senate followed after the House on Wednesday, approving a bill that would financially punish cities that remove historical monuments. The bill would ban municipalities ...

The fate of California’s two new National Monuments could come down to whether President Donald Trump can erase it the same way it came to be — with the stroke of a pen.. On that question ...

A week after the White House indicated it would eliminate two national monuments in California, many remain unsure whether President Trump has actually revoked the lands’ protected status.

The fate of two newly named national monuments in California that stretch across roughly 850,000 acres of scenic lands — an area 28 times larger than of the city of San Francisco — remained ...

The two California monuments, one located in the northern part of the state and the other near Joshua Tree National Park in the southern part, collectively cover about 848,000 acres.

Supporters of the two new California monuments see any extraction as a bad trade-off. “Any tiny amounts of minerals in these areas aren’t worth the destruction of priceless wildlife habitat ...

The status of Chuckwalla National Monument, near Joshua Tree National Park, and Sáttítla Highlands National Monument in Northern California remain unclear. Confusion clouds the fate of two new ...