WASHINGTON — The Pentagon will send an additional 1,100 active-duty troops and 1,000 members of the Texas National Guard to assist in securing the U.S. border with Mexico, the Defense Department announced Wednesday, in a move that would significantly expand the U.S. military presence there.
Manuel Luján Jr., a former 10-term Republican congressman from New Mexico and a secretary of the interior, whose efforts to balance development and conservation of federal lands often left him at loggerheads with environmentalists, died Thursday night at his home in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He was 90.
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