The state of Alaska requested the name change in 1975, but the Board on Geographic Names didn’t take action. Members of the Ohio congressional delegation – President William McKinley was from Ohio – ...

From High Island to South Padre Island, Texas boasts 376 miles of coastline. At the best beaches in Texas, beachgoers will ...

The proposal to rename the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America was bound to be controversial (“Trump wins first round vs. AP in fight over ‘Gulf of America,’” Web, Feb. 25).

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A Republican-led effort to rename the Gulf of Mexico as the "Gulf of America" is moving forward in Florida’s Legislature, ...

Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams left the International Space Station after nine months in space, checking out with two other ...

The USS Gravely, a Navy destroyer, is making its way from Yorktown, Va. toward the waters off the Texas coast.

Severe weather threatens the mid-Mississippi Valley and Southeast this weekend, with possible hail, and isolated tornadoes. Newsweek's live blog is closed.

Luis de la Calle Because the budget deficit is much larger and because we have made Mexico less competitive. And the risk ...

The NASA astronauts splashed down on Tuesday in a SpaceX capsule after problems with a Boeing vehicle set in motion a ...

NASA astronauts Cmdr. Barry "Butch" Wilmore and pilot Sunita "Suni" Williams spent nine months aboard the space station on what was supposed to be an eightish-day mission.

Vivek Ramaswamy, a Republican candidate for Ohio governor, is stirring conversation on the campaign trail with a proposal to ...