“It’s always been the Gulf of Mexico,” said Kenneth Armand, 62, standing outside his home in tiny Cut Off, La., just yards away from Bayou Lafourche, on the state’s southern coast. “Ever ...

Last week, Google renamed the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America for US-based users of Google Maps, citing “a longstanding practice of applying name changes when they have been updated in ...

“We can focus on 40 million Americans saddled with medical debt, or we could rename the Gulf of Mexico,” Representative Julie Johnson, Democrat of Texas, said this week on the House floor.