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President Biden will sign orders on Friday expanding the boundaries of Bears Ears, Grand Staircase-Escalante and Northeast Canyons and Seamounts National Monuments, the administration announced. (Image credit: Rick Bowmer/AP)

Biden to Restore Three National Monuments in Utah and New England  The New York Times Biden expected to restore Bears Ears, Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments  FOX 13 News Utah Biden to restore 3 national monuments cut by Trump  Yahoo News Gov. Cox, Lt.

Indefatigable Nazi-hunter transformed Justice Department’s system from reliant on tips to systematically checking German files against US immigration records; later headed AIPAC

Israeli court was not ruling on legality of Jewish prayer, which is outlawed, but lifted a ban police had imposed on worshiper; cops appeal; Palestinians, Jordan lead objections

Trump tells 4 former aides to defy Jan. 6 committee’s subpoena  POLITICO Trump indicates he will try to assert executive privilege to prevent House investigators from getting information  CNN Trump lawyer tells former aides not to cooperate with Jan. 6 committee  The Washington

After weeks of stalemate, Senators have reached agreement to temporarily raise the debt ceiling, shortly before Republicans prepared to block legislation to suspend the debt limit until December of next year. The agreement averts a possible economic crisis — for

It’s been nearly a year since voters cast their ballots in the 2020 presidential election, but its results — and the violent aftermath — are still at the center of investigation and debate in Washington, D.C. Amna Nawaz reports.

For a deeper look at the efforts to undermine election integrity in the United States — and what can be done to stop it — Judy Woodruff is joined by Rick Hasen, professor at the University of California Irvine, and

In his 113- page order blocking the enforcement of Texas’ six week abortion ban law, U.S. District Judge Robert Pitman called the law “an unprecedented and aggressive scheme to deprive its citizens of a significant and well-established constitutional right.” But

Some very good polling news for Donald Trump  CNN