How do place names get made and then changed? There’s a process. But it involves people as well as bureaucracy, so it’s not ...

Apple Maps had also not changed the name of the Gulf as of Tuesday afternoon ... including what are today roughly the U.S. states of California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona and New Mexico.

A rare and deadly winter storm descended across the southern U.S. on Tuesday, leaving some record-setting snow totals and halting travel for millions of Americans in Louisiana, Texas and Florida.

The announcement shows just how shrewdly the U.S. has gamed the international system. Since 1982, a United Nations agreement ...

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

North America’s tallest peak is a focal point of Jeff King’s life.The four-time winner of the 1,000-mile (1,609-kilometer) ...

With the Northern Hemisphere well into the winter months, it may seem like temperatures are cold enough already. However, a deep freeze, thanks to the polar vortex dipping down from Siberia, is ...

China sees Taiwan as its own territory, and the countries surrounding what the United States calls the South China Sea have multiple names ... s rich past.” As of Wednesday night, map ...

On Tuesday evening, U.S. District Judge John Coughenour scheduled a 10 a.m. hearing on Thursday to consider a request made by four states to issue a temporary restraining order against Trump’s ...

Night - Clear. Winds NNW at 9 mph (14.5 kph). The overnight low will be 37 °F (2.8 °C). Sunny with a high of 65 °F (18.3 °C). Winds variable at 9 to 11 mph (14.5 to 17.7 kph). Mostly sunny ...

Lawmakers in multiple states have also passed legislation making it more difficult to access medication abortions, which account for more than half of all abortions in the U.S., even as the federal ...