Interior nominations:

The White House is withdrawing its planned nomination of Elizabeth Klein to become deputy secretary at the Department of the Interior amid opposition from Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska.

Klein, who worked at Interior during the Obama administration, was among five women named by then-President-elect Joe Biden to serve as deputy Interior secretaries. But she was never formally nominated, and now won’t be, a White House spokesman said Tuesday.

Instead, Biden is expected to name Tommy Beaudreau, another former Obamaera Interior official, to be deputy secretary, according to two people familiar with the president’s thinking. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly about a nomination that has not occurred.

Beaudreau grew up in Alaska and is politically close to Murkowski.

Beaudreau’s appointment is widely seen as an attempt to win favor from Murkowski, a moderate who is one of the few Senate Republicans willing to side with Democrats on contentious issues.

Yemen children: A child relief agency said Tuesday that children accounted for a quarter of civilian casualties over the last three years in Yemen’s grinding war between Iran-backed Houthi rebels and the internationally recognized government.

More than 2,300 children were killed between 2018 and 2020, Save the Children said in a new study. However, the group said the actual toll is likely to be much higher.

“Yemeni children have been living through a horrific and endless nightmare for six years now. Children continue to be killed and injured on a neardaily basis,” said the organization’s country director, Xavier Joubert.