A push to take the job of drawing voting districts away from state lawmakers and give it to an independent commission has ...

President Donald Trump’s proposal to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the “Gulf of America” exemplifies a focus on symbolic gestures rather than addressing significant global challenges.

How do place names get made and then changed? There’s a process. But it involves people as well as bureaucracy, so it’s not ...

Apart from the “beautiful ring” Trump has detected in the Gulf of Mexico’s impending new name, the proposed move is consistent with his track record of overzealous antagonism of Mexico ...

19th-century map showing the immense territory that previously belonged to Mexico, including what are today roughly the U.S. states of California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona and New Mexico. Changes ...

It's official: The Gulf of Mexico is no more (at least in the ... on social media an official U.S. Geological Survey map image showing the new name. While some U.S agencies immediately began ...

used "Gulf of Mexico" on his map "View of Entire Route of Sir Francis Drake's West Indian Voyage." A 1630 map called the body of water "Gulf of New Spain." The Spanish name evolved into Seno Mexicano.

The map also dubs North America as "America Mexicana," or Mexican America. Mexico’s first female president joked that Mexican America has a nice ring to it as a new name for the U.S. Those 16th ...

President-elect Trump is set to rename the Gulf of Mexico and Mount Denali as part ... a spokesperson for the Trump-Vance transition team, shared a New York Post report on Trump’s plans to ...

Amid the head-spinning flurry of "Day 1" executive orders that stretched presidential power to new (and ... displayed a map made in 1607 that not only included the "Gulf of Mexico" label.

Trump said during his inaugural address Monday that he would order the renaming of the Gulf of Mexico and ... to adopt the new name. It's his latest suggestion to redraw the map of the Western ...

Indeed, Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo promptly suggested the US might itself be renamed Mexican America. She was referring to a 17th-century map showing ... a new edition of an ...