A clay rendering of the Robert Smalls monument. Basil Watson, of Georgia, design selected was selected to sculpt the statue. A monument honoring a former Black Congressman who commandeered a ...

President Donald Trump is renaming the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America. But how will that change go into effect – and will everyone call it that?

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has an answer for President Donald Trump about his idea of renaming the Gulf of Mexico to the “Gulf of America:” he can call it whatever he wants on the American part of it.

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum responded to U.S. President Donald Trump's effort to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America — that he can call it whatever he likes as long as its his country's territory.

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.

Mexican president says President Trump can call the gulf whatever he wants but that the world will still call it the Gulf of Mexico.

The president issued an executive order to change the name of the body of water, but its power may be limited beyond the United States.

Let’s hope that his national security team is focused more on these issues than what to call the Gulf of Mexico. Robert Beck of Peterborough, N.H. served for 30 years overseas with the United States government in embassies in Europe, the Middle East and ...

Houston-based operator Talos Energy says it has found “commercial quantities” of oil and gas at its second exploration well in the Katmai West field in the US Gulf of Mexico’s Ewing Bank area.

This image from the Library of Congress Brady-Handy photograph collection shows a portrait of Robert Smalls created between 1870 and 1880. The Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. — A group studying ...

Donald Trump has stirred controversy with his proposal to rename the Gulf of Mexico as the "Gulf of America." In response, Mexico's President Claudia Sheinbaum sarcastically suggested renaming North America as "Mexican America," citing historical documents.