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) ...

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After a year of high-profile killings, including the death of the UnitedHealthcare CEO, the latest available data on murders across the United ... data for some states. The FBI's data for the ...

she said, pointing to an area on the map that would now correspond to the United States. During Tuesday ... "Gulf of America – what a beautiful name. And it's appropriate." ...

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 ...

It is also much higher than the maximum of 65 reported on average in the same week of December over the past 12 years, according to data from the U.S. Centers ... a map showing which states ...