The Latest Breaking News from Gulf of Mexico

Among the blizzard of executive orders issued by Donald Trump on his first day back in the Oval Office was one titled Restoring Names that Honor American Greatness. It unilaterally renamed “the area formerly known as the Gulf of Mexico” as the “Gulf of America”.

The most important thing in any name is not what some official institution or a collection of old maps says. Spontaneous order tends to rule the day.

Gulf of Mexico to be called Gulf of America, and Denali, highest North American peak, reverts to Mount McKinley

The newly-inaugurated president has repeatedly voiced his intention of making the change

President-elect Trump to sign executive orders renaming Gulf of Mexico and Mount Denali on first day in office, signaling administration priorities.

President-elect Trump's proposal to rename the Gulf of Mexico and an Alaskan mountain would face challenges.

Marjorie Taylor Greene says new legislation ‘is important to begin funding the changing of maps for all agencies within the federal government’

The president says he wants the body of water to be called the Gulf of America but has not elaborated on how his plans could be enacted

Ban includes entire Atlantic coast, eastern Gulf of Mexico, Pacific coast off California, Oregon and Washington, and part of Bering Sea

Tropical Storm Sara in Caribbean Sea poses risks of flooding and mudslides in Central America, with potential impacts on Gulf of Mexico regions.

As TVs across Florida broadcast the all-too-familiar images of a powerful hurricane headed for the coast in early October 2024, people whose homes had been damaged less than two weeks earlier by Hurricane Helene watched anxiously. Hurricane Milton was rapidly intensifying into a dangerous storm, fueled by the Gulf of…