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.
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Biden creates 2 new national monuments, setting a conservation record
The White House says President Biden has now protected a total of 674 million acres of lands and waters — a record for any administration. This includes two new national monuments in California.
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Biden creates a new national monument marking the legacy of Indian boarding schools
The new monument will be in Carlisle, Pa., on what was the campus of a school where about 7,800 children from more than 140 tribes were sent for assimilation between 1879 to 1918.
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Biden is designating site of 1908 Springfield, Ill., race riot as a national monument
In 1908, a white lynch mob of thousands terrorized a Black neighborhood in Springfield, Ill. The events were so horrific it led to the founding of the NAACP.
