Long before Trump expressed interest in a name change, conquerors have battled to claim the wealth of its rich waters.

US President-elect Donald Trump, centre, says his incoming administration will rename the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America [Scott Olson/Getty Images via AFP] This month during a rambling news ...

President-elect Donald Trump has floated the idea of changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. Here's ...

I thought he meant Greenridge. Really! When our past-and-now-incoming commander-in-chief pronounced that he wants to annex a ...

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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. “This superb ...

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Has renaming the Gulf of Mexico come up before? Yes. In 2012, a member of the Mississippi Legislature proposed a bill to rename portions of the gulf that touch that state's beaches "Gulf of ...

"We're going to be changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America," he said. Trump linked his decision to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to immigration. "Mexico has to stop ...

The well is located in the Ewing Bank region within the U.S. Gulf of Mexico. The company plans to conclude the casing and suspension of the well by late January 2025. TALO’s Drilling Success in ...