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• Former President Trump intends to proceed with plans to paint the grey granite Eisenhower Executive Office Building white. • The administration is proposing a ten-mile buffer zone around Chaco Canyon in New Mexico to prohibit oil, gas, and mineral extraction. • These actions highlight a continued focus on both aesthetic changes to federal architecture and environmental protections for culturally significant sites.

Former spy chief says recommendations regarding intelligence agencies shouldn’t wait for royal commission’s final reportGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastImprovements to public safety and intelligence in the wake of the Bondi terrorist attack “cannot wait until December”, former spy chief Dennis Richardson has said just days after he sensationally quit the antisemitism royal commission.“You cannot leave matters that go to public safety till the end of the year, particularly when you have a small section of the community living in such fear,” Richardson told an ABC podcast. Continue reading...