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    The Senate on Wednesday confirmed Sally Jewell to head the Interior Department.

  • **FILE** President Obama listens as his Interior Secretary nominee, REI Chief Executive Officer Sally Jewell, speaks in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington on Feb. 6, 2013. (Associated Press)

    Senate panel clears Jewell for Interior post

    Sally Jewell is one step closer to becoming the nation's next secretary of the interior.

  • ** FILE ** President Obama listens as his nominee for interior secretary, REI Chief Executive Officer Sally Jewell, speaks in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington on Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2013. (Associated Press)

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    The 1970 western “Monte Walsh” comes to mind with President Obama’s nomination of Sally Jewell, president and chief executive officer of Recreational Equipment, Inc. (REI), to replace Ken Salazar as secretary of the Interior. The difference between Ms. Jewell and the movie’s titular character is that Walsh stands true to his background, while Mr. Obama’s nominee seems content to run rough-shod over hers.

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  • ** FILE ** Interior Secretary Kenneth L. Salazar stands in front of a map of the Grand Canyon as he announces a 20-year ban on new mining claims. (Associated Press)

    Official says Interior Secretary Salazar is leaving Obama's Cabinet

    An administration official says Interior Secretary Ken Salazar will leave the Obama administration in March.

  • People point to names on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial on Veterans Day, Sunday, Nov. 11, 2012, in Washington. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)

    Officials to break ground for center at Vietnam Veterans Memorial

    Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta, Jill Biden and military families will hold a ceremonial groundbreaking Wednesday for a new education center at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington.

  • Plan to streamline solar development in West OK'd

    Federal officials on Friday approved a plan that sets aside 445 square miles of public land for the development of large-scale solar power plants, cementing a new government approach to renewable energy development in the West after years of delays and false starts.

  • TV fisherman Bill Dance shows off one of his catches. Tennessee tourism officials are stressing the state's outdoor activities, including fishing, hunting, hiking and camping. A trip with Mr. Dance is a prize in one of several state-sponsored outdoor-adventure contests. (Photo provided by Tennessee Department of Tourist Development)

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  • **FILE** President Barack Obama (Associated Press)

    Interior touts oil-lease sales Bush had planned

    The Obama administration Wednesday took credit for holding a successful oil and gas lease sale in the Gulf of Mexico the same day, but critics were quick to point out that President George W. Bush had scheduled the auction years ago and President Obama had delayed it.

  • The Department of the Interior announced on Wednesday, June 13, 2012, that it will not declare the dunes sagebrush lizard an endangered species. Officials said voluntary efforts by New Mexico and Texas have headed off the need for the federal government to step in. (AP Photo/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service)

    Feds backtrack on endangered-lizard listing

    The Obama administration backtracked Wednesday and announced it will not declare the dunes sagebrush lizard an endangered species, saying voluntary efforts by New Mexico and Texas have headed off the need for the federal government to step in.

  • ** FILE ** Dr. Jill Biden meets with Sherry Kenin, left, and U.S. Coast Guard Rear Admiral William D. Baumgartner, who serves as the Commander, Seventh Coast Guard District, during a visit to Coast Guard Base Miami Beach on Thursday, May 3, 2012, in Miami Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/The Miami Herald, Al Diaz)

    Military families to get free national parks pass

    Active-duty military personnel and their dependents will soon be able to enter every national park for free as part of an effort to thank service members and their families for the sacrifices they make, the Interior Department announced Tuesday.

  • Interior Secretary Ken Salazar

    Salazar approves Utah gas wells

    U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar is set to approve a major natural gas drilling project in Utah that the Obama administration says will support more than 4,000 jobs during its development while safeguarding critical wildlife habitat and air quality.

  • Mitt Romney was an April fool when he was surprised by an empty room in Milwaukee. His staff members had gathered supporters in another room upstairs. Mr. Romney shared the story once he made it to the right room. (Associated Press)

    Inside Politics: Milwaukee's mayor throws wrench in union plan

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  • The Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial is seen Jan. 15, 2012, in Washington. (Associated Press)

    Park Service to replace quote on MLK Memorial

    The National Park Service announced on Friday it will correct a paraphrased "drum major" quote etched into the Martin Luther King Jr. National Memorial to "more accurately reflect" King's words.

  • Pythons apparently wiping out Everglades mammals

    A burgeoning population of huge pythons _ many of them pets that were turned loose by their owners when they got too big _ appears to be wiping out large numbers of raccoons, opossums, bobcats and other mammals in the Everglades, a study says.

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