The NPS also added more free-admission days for next year – calling them "patriotic fee-free days" – such as Trump's birthday on June 14, July 4th weekend and the 110th Birthday of NPS. The Department of the Interior did not immediately respond to USA TODAY's request for comment.

President Donald Trump unveiled a national security plan declaring the "era of mass migration is over" while targeting China as central threat.

Beryl Rappaport, a microbiologist completing her Ph.D. at Syracuse University, and a team of researchers identified a new eukaryote, a type of amoeba whose cells have a membrane-bound nucleus, that can live in heat once thought to be fatal. “Eukaryotes can grow at higher temperatures than we thought was possible for them,” Rappaport said.

The Interior Department says it’s to keep national park gift shops as “neutral spaces that serve all visitors.”

The authorities accused “some foreign media” of smearing the government’s response to a fire at a high-rise complex, saying: “Do not say you have not been warned.”

California officials have asked Breyer to issue a preliminary injunction returning control of remaining California National Guard troops in Los Angeles to the state. Breyer did not immediately rule. He has previously blocked the administration’s takeover of the California National Guard and found the deployment illegal.

Located in south-central Utah in the heart of red rock country, the 60-mile-long Capitol Reef National Park is filled with cliffs, canyons, domes, natural bridges and fruit trees that were planted by Mormon settlers, shown in Fruita, Utah, on Oct. 10, 2023.