In fact, there is precedent for a U.S. president renaming a geographical feature. In 2015, President Barack Obama used his executive powers through the Department of Interior to rename Mount ...

Donald Trump will order the renaming of the Gulf of Mexico and Alaska’s Mount Denali in his first hours as the 47th president, ... President Barack Obama renamed Mt. McKinley in 2015 to Denali.

That’s the quip from former Barack Obama staffer Dan Pfeiffer in reaction to Trump saying Tuesday he’ll move to try to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the “Gulf of America,” a name he said ...

The body of water formerly known as the Gulf of Mexico has now ... but that name wasn't used by federal officials until President Barack Obama aligned it in 2015. Trump called Obama's ...

In 2015, then-President Barack Obama approved an order from the Department of Interior to rename Mount McKinley — the highest peak in North America — to Denali, a move that Trump has also said ...

Matthew Hinton/The Times-PicayunePresident Barack Obama says goodbye to U.S. Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen at Louis Armstrong International Airport after touring the coast of Louisiana Friday.

President Barack Obama says the oil may have stopped flowing into the Gulf of Mexico, but the government's job in tackling the environmental disaster is far from done.

President Barack Obama said Tuesday that the Gulf of Mexico oil spill is a reminder that the economy, which is showing signs of recovery two years after the recession, can ...

Donald Trump will sign an executive order renaming the Gulf of Mexico, ... and President Barack Obama renamed it at the federal level in 2015. Trump's action will revert to the pre-Obama name.

The peak was first named McKinley in 1896. Then-President Barack Obama changed the name to Denali to a local Native American name. It means "the High One" in Athabascan. William McKinley was a ...

In fact, there is precedent for a U.S. president renaming a geographical feature. In 2015, President Barack Obama used his ...