As part of a torrent of decisions he issued this week hours after taking office, President Donald Trump declared that the ...

Renaming it the Gulf of America would apply only in the US. And the long global history of disputed place names suggests it ...

What's in a name change, after all? The water bordered by the Southern United States, Mexico and Cuba will be critical to shipping lanes and vacationers whether it’s called the Gulf of Mexico, as it ...

President Trump’s territorial assertions sparked a round of rethinking by mapmakers and teachers, snark on social media and sarcasm by at least one other world leader.

Kelseyville, California, is named after Andrew Kelsey, a man who brutally enslaved, tortured and murdered members of the local indigenous population during the mid-19th Century.

Whatever the US decides to call the gulf, it does not mean other countries will pay any heed. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Federal changes have to be made, but other countries and private companies can keep using "Gulf of Mexico." Here's why.

JUNEAU — Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy said Wednesday that he would seek out a conversation with President Donald Trump about his ...

If you said “introduce a resolution to require the state to call the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America in official state ...