Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. I arrived at the Black Butte Center for Railroad Culture in Weed, California, the wrong way. As I drove up the dirt ...

USD/CAD drops sharply to near 1.4200 as the US Dollar underperforms its major peers. Slightly higher US Initial Jobless Claims have weighed on the US Dollar. Fed officials are wor ...

"It's not my job to just simply leave a great world for our children. We also want to leave great children for our world." ...

Alonso Álvarez de Pineda made the first map labeling those waters as the Gulf of Mexico in 1519. Before that, you likely ...

The name change to Gulf of America is the first since the 1540s where various maps referred to it as the Mexican Gulf, Golpho ...

“Gulf of America” is now in official use on a U.S. government database of geographic names and on Google Maps after President Donald Trump last month issued an executive order to rename the ...

In response, Sheinbaum sarcastically remarked that North America should be called "América Mexicana" — "Mexican America" — because a 17th-century map labeled the continent as such.

In a Feb. 10 release, Google Maps said inside the U.S., the name would be updated to Gulf of America while people in Mexico would see Gulf of Mexico. “Everyone else will see both names,” said ...

Google Maps switched Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America on Monday. "We have a longstanding practice of applying name changes when they have been updated in official government sources," Google said.

After mapmakers in 1507 first attached the label America to a massive world map printed in France, they began to have serious misgivings about their choice of words. A mere six years later ...

Google Maps has turned off the ability to leave reviews for the Gulf of America, formerly known as the Gulf of Mexico. Google is restricting all users from leaving comments and reviews of the Gulf, ...