Arctic air grips the central and eastern U.S., bringing record-breaking cold, dangerous wind chills, and historic snowfall.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has already embraced the change. He cited the new name in an executive order earlier this week ...

With roads shut and over 2100 flights cancelled, life has come to a standstill in the southern US stretching from South Texas ...

A major winter storm slammed the US Gulf Coast Tuesday, blanketing parts of a region largely unaccustomed to extreme winter ...

Florida lawmakers and DeSantis could have a way to update state laws to change references from the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf ...

Renaming it the Gulf of America would apply only in the US. And the long global history of disputed place names suggests it ...

Part of a legal description of a boundary line of Dixie County, for instance, says it goes “southerly down the thread of the ...

At least 55 statutes include references to the Gulf of Mexico, while local-government ordinances also are tied to the ...

The Coast Guard is sending additional resources to at least four other maritime borders as well, including waterways around Florida.

The deployment was ordered after the Trump administration signaled its intent to rename the Gulf of Mexico and moved quickly to fire the Coast Guard commandant.

It remains to be seen if they will end up doing law enforcement, which would put American troops in a dramatic new role.