Protections for 27 national monuments may be curtailed, cut

Twenty-seven national monuments, mostly in the West, face the curtailing or elimination of protections put in place over the past two decades by presidents from both parties, the Interior Department said.President Donald Trump ordered the review last month, saying protections imposed by his three immediate predecessors amounted to "a massive federal land grab" that "should never have happened."A list released Friday includes 22 monuments on federal land in 11, mostly Western states, including Be