Usually, renaming a place starts locally. The people in the state or county propose a name change and gather support. The ...

There are two areas of bipartisan agreement about President Donald Trump’s early days back in the White House: voters say he ...

America's Department of the Interior has said that the controversial name change is to 'honor the legacy of American ...

A larger shelf means legal access to more of the ocean floor’s riches: animals, hydrocarbons, and, perhaps most important, ...

While the Gulf of America will be applied to federal references, other nations will not be required to recognize the name.

The Department of the Interior says they're moving quickly to implement President Donald Trump's executive order to rename ...

Mapmakers and teachers are rethinking what to call the body of water between Mexico, the U.S. and Cuba after President Trump ...

Big business has an inside track in the second Trump presidency, and people with a stake in those businesses have reason to ...

The Associated Press issued an updated style guidance in response to President Donald Trump's inauguration day executive orders that purported to rename two geographic landmarks, announcing a decision ...

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 ...

Many climate experts see its deserts as a place to build the green-energy future. For two local activists, the price is too ...

On his first day back in office, President Donald Trump tried to make good on a prominent campaign promise: end the United States' 150-plus-year practice of universal birthright citizenship.