President-elect Donald Trump has floated the idea of changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. Here's why that could cause some confusion.

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 220 million people across the United States are facing dangerous cold that will also open the door for a potentially historic and crippling winter storm that could deliver snow as far south as Florida and the Gulf of Mexico.

As president, Trump can take the action to rename the body of water, although other countries don’t have to adopt the new name.

Colonizers have always coveted the Gulf of Mexico: its trade winds, ports, fish and shellfish, its deep pockets of oil and gas far beneath a basin floor of crashed, tectonic plates.

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

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump came out swinging in a combative inaugural speech in which he affirmed plans to rename the Gulf of Mexico and regain control of the Panama Canal.

Among the first executive orders signed by President Trump was an order to rename the Gulf of Mexico as the "Gulf of America."

President Donald Trump says that he will change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the “Gulf of America.” His intention to rename the body of water was made in his inaugural address, but he had initially brought it up earlier this month during a news conference.

an original determination believed to have been taken from a Native American city of “Mexico.”Has renaming the Gulf of Mexico come up before?Yes. In 2012, a member of the Mississippi ...

A powerful and rare winter storm swept across the South on Tuesday, bringing the first-ever Blizzard Warning to the Gulf Coast and blasting communities from Texas to Florida to the Carolinas with record-shattering snow that snarled travel and brought daily life to a halt.