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Will national parks close during a government shutdown?

Gates will be locked and thousands of rangers will be furloughed from national park sites if Congress doesn’t reach a budget agreement

The Independent UK

Government shutdown would mean locked gates, furloughed rangers at national parks

The majority of more than 420 national park units will be off-limits to the public starting Monday, Interior officials said. The governors of Arizona and Utah vowed to use state funding to keep some of the most iconic parks, including Grand Canyon and Zion, open.

Chicago Sun-Times

US national parks set to close in event of government shutdown

The interior department’s contingency plan emphasizes the need to protect park resources and ensure visitor health and safety

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Biden calls for up to 3 offshore oil leases in Gulf of Mexico, upsetting both sides

The administration's proposal seeks to strike a balance between energy companies seeking greater oil and gas production and environmental activists who want Biden to shut down new offshore drilling.

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Biden calls for up to three oil and gas lease sales in the Gulf of Mexico, disappointing all sides

President Joe Biden's administration has proposed up to three oil and gas lease sales in the Gulf of Mexico over the next five years but none in Alaska

The Independent UK

'Beyond disappointing': Biden set to OK compromise offshore drilling plan

No lease sale would take place in 2024, making it the first year in the modern program's four decades that companies will be unable to bid for parcels in the Gulf of Mexico or the waters off Alaska.

Politico

Interior to shutter national parks during shutdown

Closures could cost states billions in lost revenue

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Gates will be locked and thousands of rangers furloughed at national parks if government shuts down

Gates will be locked and thousands of rangers will be furloughed from national park sites if Congress doesn’t reach a budget agreement

The Independent UK

From welcoming refugees to the crisis in Lampedusa, six years of French immigration policy

French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin announced on Tuesday that France would not be taking in any of the migrants who arrived on the Italian island of Lampedusa last week. FRANCE 24 looks back at six years of French U-turns on immigration policies.

France 24

A grandmother seeks justice for Native Americans after thousands of unsolved deaths, disappearances

Kaysera Stops Pretty Places’ death remains unsolved four years after her body was found in a Native American reservation border town

The Independent UK

France to support Italy in 'securing its border' against illegal migrants

French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin visited Rome on Monday to discuss migration, after a week of mass arrivals on the Italian island of Lampedusa forced a European-wide response.

Radio France Internationale

Local mafia leader list takes shape

A nationwide list of local leaders linked to influential mafia-like gangs is now 20-30% complete, said Deputy Interior Minister Chada Thaiset.

Bangkok Post

Biden plan would overhaul 151-year-old mining law, make companies pay royalties for copper and gold

The Biden administration is recommending changes to a 151-year-old law that governs mining for copper, gold and other hardrock minerals on U.S.-owned lands, including making companies pay royalties on what they extract

The Independent UK

Anutin confident Chada can root out mafia links

Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister Anutin Charnvirakul on Monday expressed confidence in the ability of his deputy, Chada Thaiset, to tackle mafia-style gangs.

Bangkok Post

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Almost every single major Biden official is making a pilgrimage to Alaska

Key Cabinet officials have been visiting Alaska to understand its issues — and to woo Murkowski.

Chicago Sun-Times

Biden administration cancels remaining oil and gas leases in Alaska’s Arctic Refuge

The administration overturns Trump-era sales and proposed stronger protections against development on vast swaths of the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska.

Politico

Trump's border wall caused 'significant' cultural, environmental damage, watchdog finds

The 450 miles of barrier waived or disregarded environmental and historic preservation laws and interfered with endangered species, diverted water sources and caused other environmental damage, GAO said.

The Independent UK

Biden administration cancels remaining oil and gas leases in Alaska's Arctic Refuge

The Biden administration has canceled the remaining seven oil and gas leases in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, overturning sales held in the Trump administration’s waning days and angering Republicans

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The Independent UK

Agreement reached to relinquish drilling lease on land in Montana that’s sacred to Native Americans

A Louisiana company will relinquish the last remaining oil and gas lease on land near Montana’s Glacier National Park that’s sacred to Native Americans

Al Jazeera

Q&A: Why US advocates want more power to probe Indigenous boarding schools

Ben Barnes, chief of the Shawnee Tribe, tells Al Jazeera that advocates do not want the truth ‘sifted through a sieve’.

The Independent UK

Feds approve offshore wind farm south of Rhode Island and Martha's Vineyard

A planned offshore wind farm moved a step closer to construction Tuesday with the Department of the Interior announcing it has approved the project

Radio France Internationale

France pledges to tackle monopolies inflating prices in overseas territories

On a visit to French Polynesia, France's interior minister said he would launch a review into whether companies were abusing their market dominance to jack up prices and contribute to the notoriously high cost of living in French overseas territories.

Radio France Internationale

France sends elite police unit to Marseille in bid to quell drug violence

French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin on Thursday announced that a unit from the elite CRS 8 police force that specialises in fighting urban violence is to be deployed to Marseille. The southern port has been plagued by gang violence over control of the city's drug trade.

Zenger

Smotrich Freezes Special Grant To Arab Localities

Bezalel Smotrich rejected a request from the Interior Minister to transfer millions of shekels earmarked for Arab municipalities

Chicago Sun-Times

Now a national monument, Bronzeville church where Emmett Till’s casket lay open gets official sign

Roberts Temple Church, at 40th and State streets, will preserve the site where Till’s body was displayed in an open casket and launched the modern Civil Rights Movement.

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