Monuments, meanwhile, typically pay homage to figures or events. From the memorials dotting Washington, D.C.'s National Mall to the Communist-era statues in Budapest’s Memento Park, these ...

The Antiquities Act of 1906, signed into law by President Theodore Roosevelt, gave Congress or the president the authority to establish national monuments on federal land as a means of protecting ...

Just before President Biden left office, he designated two swaths of land in California as monuments. Chuckwalla National Monument is among them but conservationists worry about its future under the ...

President Joe Biden on Tuesday established two new national monuments in California, the latest in a flurry of major environmental initiatives affecting the Golden State as his presidency comes to ...

SIMFEROPOL, February 5. /TASS/. A 10-ton monument to the so-called Big Three - Joseph Stalin, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill - has been installed in the Black Sea Peninsula of Crimea ...