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Agency will keep a "western headquarters" in Colorado and have "a leadership presence" in Washington, closer to top administration officials. Rep. Debra Haaland, D-N.M., testifies during her confirmation hearing before the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resource, at the U.S. Capitol, on Feb. 24, 2021. WASHINGTON — Interior Secretary Deb Haaland is moving the national headquarters of the Bureau of Land Management back to the nation’s capital after two years in Colorado, reversing a decision by former President Donald Trump's administration to move the agency closer to the region it serves. The land management bureau, which oversees nearly one-fifth of the nation’s public lands, lost nearly 300 employees to retirement or resignation after its headquarters was moved to Grand Junction, Colorado, in 2019. Grand Junction will be rechristened the agency's “western headquarters,” Haaland said in a news release, and “have an important role to play in the bure...

  “It is a huge honor, both as an individual and a citizen, to be able to hold the title of special presidential envoy for future generations and culture,” BTS member RM said. Members of BTS perform during Grammy Awards broadcast on March 14. The K-pop group BTS will visit the United Nations as presidential special envoys for South Korea. The Grammy-nominated boy band will be attending the 76th session of the United Nations General Assembly session in New York, along with South Korean President Moon Jae-in from Sept. 19 to 23. The invite comes after Moon met with the stars and appointed them as “special presidential envoy for future generations and culture” at a Tuesday ceremony in the country's capital of Seoul. “ It is a huge honor, both as an individual and a citizen, to be able to hold the title of special presidential envoy for future generations and culture," BTS member Kim Nam-joon, known as RM, shared on behalf of the group, the Korea Herald reported. “ We’re always th...

  His friend and confidant Susan Berman was fatally shot in her home shortly before she was going to be interviewed by police. LOS ANGELES — A Los Angeles jury on Friday convicted New York real estate heir Robert Durst of gunning down a friend more than two decades ago, a killing authorities believe was connected to his missing wife. The panel had been deliberating since Tuesday afternoon when it came back with the guilty verdict for first-degree murder in the slaying of Susan Berman on Dec. 23, 2000. Berman had been scheduled to speak to police about a fake alibi she allegedly gave Durst when his wife disappeared in New York in 1982, prosecutors said. Kathie Durst has never been found, and no charges have ever been brought in connection with her disappearance. Durst, 78, was not present in court when the verdict was read because he is in isolation after being possibly exposed to Covid-19. Friday's verdict wrapped up a trial that began with jurors first hearing evidence in March 20...