Sign up for the Outdoor Life newsletter Get the latest outdoor news from Outdoor Life. President Donald Trump today once again signed an executive order making cuts to two popular Utah national monuments, this time making even greater cuts than in 2017. This order is cut to size Bears Ears National Monument up 91% And
Published July 13, 2026 05:12 pm President Trump signed an executive order on July 13 reducing the size of two national monuments in Utah by nearly 3 million acres, leaving them at a fraction of their originally designated size. under him newly signed orderTrump reduced Bears Ears National Monument by about 121,000 acres and Grand
As wildfires rage and courts escalate battles over boundaries, the president is reportedly targeting Utah’s two largest national monuments. listen to this articleHear An arch in Bears Ears National Monument. (Photo: Adam Roy) Updated July 10, 2026 06:27 pm Lawyers for Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments are vowing to take the Trump administration
In his classic memoir of the Soviet state terror of the 1930s, hope against hopeNadezhda Mandelstam recalled the last years of her marriage to the poet Osip Mandelstam as they fled from town to village, relying on help from a few brave friends and strangers, exiled from their Moscow home as enemies of the state.
After the US launched attacks on Iran this week, Donald Trump said the fragile ceasefire he co-signed last month was up. Before leaving the NATO summit in Ankara he also repeated his threats to annex Greenland, saying there was a lot of ‘love’ and ‘unity’ in the room. So how can one make progress when
The US President is in an aggressive mood as NATO leaders meet for a two-day summit in Ankara. There are differences over Russia’s war in Ukraine, defense spending and the US-Israel war in Iran and there are signs the fragile ceasefire may be breaking down. The Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, is speaking with leaders as
Commercial ship in the Strait of Hormuz near Bandar Abbas, Iran. (Amirhossein Khorgui/ISNA via AP) July 8, 2026 8:13 am, EDT | Update: July 8, 2026 11:35 am, EDT key takeaways: Oil prices rose more than 7% after US President Donald Trump said on July 8 that the interim deal with Iran was “dead” although
Ever since Donald Trump threatened to ‘take over’ Cuba, the Caribbean island is in danger. Increasing US sanctions and an oil blockade have crippled essential services, plunged the country into blackouts, and brought life on the ground to a near standstill for its 10 million people. Noor Haider talks to Ruairidh Nicol What life is
From left: NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, President Donald Trump, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Treasury Secretary Scott Besant and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth during the NATO summit in Ankara, Turkey, on July 8. (Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images) July 8, 2026 9:59 am, EDT key takeaways: President Donald Trump called for an end to US trade
A container terminal in Nanjing, China on January 14. (Chinatopics via AP) July 7, 2026 8:44 am, EDT key takeaways: A three-day USTR hearing on proposed tariffs involving forced labor enforcement began in Washington on July 7, with testimony from officials, industries, and foreign governments. The USTR recommended imposing a 10% to 12.5% tariff on