The U.S. Department of the Interior has officially renamed the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, following an executive ...

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Usually, renaming a place starts locally. The people in the state or county propose a name change and gather support. The ...

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There is no census, and migrants come and go, but the majority of people in La Soledad appear to be from Venezuela, the ...

Columnist Mark Patinkin ponders new names for Rhode Island and it's cities and towns as the Gulf of Mexico gets renamed.