Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo opened a Wednesday news conference in Mexico City with a 17th Century map of North and South America as a backdrop. "Obviously the Gulf of Mexico is recognized by the United Nations... but why don't we call this 'Mexican America'?"

Why stop at Gulf of America? Our maps are full of foreign names and languages — including a Palm Beach resort with a Spanish name.

More than 230 million people across the United States are facing dangerous cold that will also open the door for a potentially historic and crippling winter storm.

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The Gulf of Mexico is shared primarily by the US and Mexico, which have long controlled and utilised its waters. The name “Mexico” originates from an Indigenous city that bore the same name as ...

“THE FIRST OFFSHORE OIL WELL: First producing offshore oil well out of sight of land was completed Nov. 14, 1947 in the Gulf of Mexico forty-three miles South of Morgan City, Louisiana,” it say

OCEARCH has tracked Crystal up the eastern seaboard to New Brunswick, back down around the Florida Keys and into the Gulf of Mexico.

Trump will sign an order renaming the Gulf of Mexico, making it the Gulf of America. And the highest mountain in North America, now known as Mount Denali, will revert back to Mount McKinley, its name until President Barack Obama changed it.

Mexico Beach took to Facebook to clarify the city would not see a name change after President-elect Donald Trump’s remarks about the Gulf of Mexico.

Trump will become the first president since Grover Cleveland to enter the White House for a non-consecutive second term, with the ceremony driven indoors for the first time since Ronald Reagan ’s second inauguration in 1985 by the punishing sub-zero temperatures currently blasting Washington DC.

The Coast Guard said that to start moving the ship south, the county needed to restore the ship's structural integrity and demonstrate it could withstand the expected harsh journey.