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President Donald Trump is planning to sign an executive order on Wednesday ordering a review of national monument designations going back 21 years, according to multiple media reports.

The order directs the U.S. Department of the Interior to look at designations dating back to Jan 1, 1996, which means more than 50 national monuments named by three presidents could be up for review. A White House official told The Washington Post on Monday that Trump wants to make sure his predecessors have not abused the federal law allowing such designations.

National monuments are historic sites or geographic areas — like Bears Ears National Monument in Utah or Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument in Maine — that have been granted special federal protections. While only Congress can designate new national parks or wilderness areas, the president can unilaterally declare a national monument under the Antiquities Act of 1906.

President Barack Obama’s designation of Bears Ears last December spurred Trump’s decision to review more than two decades of national monuments, according to The Salt Lake Tribune. Protecting the 1.35 million-acre site as a monument incited controversy in Utah, with opposition from ranchers and some lawmakers.

The Interior Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment from HuffPost.

Conservation groups have condemned the impending executive order as an attack on U.S. public lands.

“Eliminating or shrinking the 55 national monuments designated during the last 21 years would short-circuit the will of local residents, hunters, anglers, business owners and recreationists who campaigned, in some cases for decades, for these monument designations,” the National Wildlife Federation said in a statement.

Losing protected areas could reduce the habitats for numerous wildlife species, the federation said, and would be a devastating blow to the outdoor recreation industry.

“The most troubling fallout would be the beginning of the dismantling of our nation’s outdoor heritage, built over more than a century,” the group said.

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April 25 (Reuters) – Flying taxis may become a reality in the next four years.

U.S. ride-hailing service Uber Technologies Inc expects to deploy flying taxi services in Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas, and Dubai in 2020, Chief Product Officer Jeff Holden said at the Uber Elevate Summit in Dallas.

Uber’s flying taxis will be small, electric aircraft that takeoff and land vertically, or VTOL aircraft, enabling zero operational emissions and quiet enough to operate in cities without disturbing the neighbors.

The company is working with Hillwood Properties to make four vertiports – VTOL hubs with multiple takeoff and landing pads, and charging infrastructure – for Uber in Dallas starting next year, Holden said.

Uber has also teamed up with companies such as Bell Helicopter, Aurora, Pipistrel, Mooney and Embraer to make the flying taxis.

The company, which has partnered with the Dubai government, expects to conduct passenger flights as part of the World Expo 2020 in Dubai.

“What we’re doing with them is they’re going to be funding studies for demand modeling so that we can deeply understand pricing and network optimization in the Dubai area,” Holden said.

Uber is valued at $68 billion and its investors include Goldman Sachs and GV, formerly known as Google Ventures .

The ride-hailing service has recently been rocked by a number of setbacks, including detailed accusations of sexual harassment from a former female employee and a video showing Chief Executive Travis Kalanick harshly berating an Uber driver.

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Facebook Live has already been used to live stream several brutal acts of violence including but not limited to murders and even as Facebook tries to improve the detection and removal process of such videos, it’s easier said than done. The previous case is still fresh in our memories and there has been another one in which a Thai man took his own daughter’s life and streamed it live on Facebook.

Reuters reports that the man put a rope around his 11-month-old daughter’s neck and threw her over the side of a building. He streamed this brutal act live via Facebook Live. He didn’t stream his own suicide, though, but Thai police say that he did commit suicide soon after killing his daughter.

There were two clips of the little girl’s murder which remained online on Facebook for more than 24 hours before the social network removed them after the Thai Ministry of Digital Economy made a request. In the time the videos were up they racked up more than 370,000 views.

It’s sadly becoming unsurprising now to see people use Facebook Live to showcase their acts of violence, whether it’s assault, rape, murder or even suicide. Facebook has been trying to improve its detection and removal mechanisms but it’s evident that a lot more needs to be done to prevent Facebook Live from being used for this purpose.

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