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The Gulf of Mexico has had its name for about 400 years. In his book, The Principall Navigations, Voiages and Discoveries of the English Nation, published in 1589, English geographer Richard ...
Donald Trump renamed the Gulf of Mexico. Here's what that means legally and politically, according to experts.
House Rules Committee Chairwoman Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-N.C., said during a hearing on Monday that Greene’s bill “recognizes the strategic influence America has over this geography, not to ...
Not all of the Gulf of Mexico, whose name dates back to the 1600s, will become the “Gulf of America,” though. Trump’s executive order didn’t include the whole gulf, only the parts in U.S ...
Trump's executive order renaming the gulf also reverses an Obama-administration geography name-change by reverting the name of the Alaska mountain "Denali" to "Mount McKinley." ...