AP source: Mueller conveys interest in questioning Trump

President Donald Trump takes the stage to speak at the American Farm Bureau Federation's Annual Convention at the Gaylord Opryland Resort and Convention Center, Monday, Jan. 8, 2018, in Nashville, Tenn. President Donald Trump takes the stage to speak at the American Farm Bureau Federation's Annual Convention at the Gaylord Opryland Resort and Convention Center, Monday, Jan. 8, 2018, in Nashville, Tenn.

Vela warns of wall’s impact

U.S. Rep. Filemon Vela, D-Brownsville, is pleading with Democratic leadership to weigh the environmental impact the Trump Administration's proposed border wall may create before considering its funding. In a letter to Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin, Vela and U.S. Reps.

California environmental, political leaders fire back at Trump…

California environmental groups and Democratic Party leaders blasted the Trump administration's proposal Thursday to reopen areas off the state's coastline to new offshore oil drilling lease sales for the first time since 1984. The plan proposes putting seven new California sites in deep federal waters up for sale to oil producers, among a total of 47 new parcels identified nationwide.

US appeals court: Feds erred in Hawaii fishery expansion

Federal agencies were wrong to allow Hawaii's longline swordfish industry to expand fishing efforts while allowing the hooking or entangling of more endangered sea turtles, a U.S. appeals court ruled. The panel of judges on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled this week that the National Marine Fisheries Service failed to consider scientific data that showed the loggerhead turtle population would significantly decline when it set limits for the industry.

Macron’s firm migrant policy in France tarnishes human touch

It's getting colder and colder, the clock is ticking and regional authorities are scrambling to meet President Emmanuel Macron's deadline: get migrants off France's streets and out of forest hideouts by year's end. That won't likely happen, and Macron's government is now tightening the screws: ramping up expulsions, raising pressure on economic migrants and allowing divisive ID checks in emergency shelters.

House GOP deflates administrative state by moving to allow bikes in wilderness areas

House Republicans put the brakes on the federal bureaucracy Wednesday by advancing a bill to allow bicycles and wheelchairs in federal wilderness areas for the first time in 40 years. The House Natural Resources Committee approved on a 22-18 vote H.R. 1349, which amends the Wilderness Act to allow for non-motorized vehicles, including bikes and wheelchairs, as well as motorized wheelchairs.

State and Fond du Lac band of Chippewa reach fishing and wildlife agreement

ARE YOU A WRITER? If you are interested in contributing content to ONN, please download our writer's contract pdf. Governor Mark Dayton and Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Chairman Kevin Dupuis today announced that the State of Minnesota and the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa have formalized an agreement to manage the Band's fishing, hunting and gathering rights in areas of northern Minnesota that were established in an 1854 Treaty.