Many Longboat Key residents were reluctant to buck a tradition that is almost 70 years old, town manager Howard Tipton told ...

Donald Trump renamed the Gulf of Mexico. Here's what that means legally and politically, according to experts.

President Trump signs executive orders in the Oval Office on his first day back in the White House. (Evan Vucci / Associated Press) Before President Trump, the most high-profile call to change the ...

WASHINGTON – The U.S. House approved legislation Thursday that would rename after 400 years the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. “The House voted to permanently rename the Gulf of Mexico as the ...

TALLAHASSEE — Erasing the Gulf of Mexico from state laws and educational materials won Florida House approval Thursday. The Republican-controlled House passed two bills along party lines to carry out ...

Updated February 11, 2025 at 10:18 AM ET President Trump's executive order renaming the Gulf of Mexico has drawn a mixed reception, from laughter to annoyance. Even as the federal government ...

Unlike renaming Alaska’s tallest mountain Mount McKinley, resuscitating a name bestowed by the federal government in 1917, Gulf of America is not “restoring” a name to the body of water. Far from it, ...

Davis will be the keynote speaker at the Florida Humanities Festival in Sarasota on March 22 where he will talk about the history and the culture of the Florida Suncoast. Davis will be the keynote ...