President Donald Trump plans to announce while on his trip to Saudi Arabia next week that the United States will now refer to the Persian Gulf as the Arabian Gulf or the Gulf of Arabia, according to two U.S. officials.
President Trump has floated changing the name of the Persian Gulf to the Arabian Gulf ahead of a trip to the Middle East next week, infuriating Iran and its people. The body of water has been called the Persian Gulf since at least 550 B.C. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/11/w ...
-- The New York Times (@nytimes.com) May 11, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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Mexico sues Google over changing Gulf of Mexico's name for US users
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... Mexico has sued Google for changing the Gulf of Mexico's name to "Gulf of America" for Google Maps users in the United States, Claudia Sheinbaum, Mexico's president, said on Friday.
"The lawsuit has already been filed," Sheinbaum said at her morning news conference, without saying where and when it was submitted.
On Thursday, Republicans in the House of Representatives approved legislation to codify Donald Trump's policy of renaming the Gulf of Mexico to the "Gulf of America".
The measure was sponsored by rightwing Georgia lawmaker Marjorie Taylor Greene and passed nearly along party lines, with all Democrats opposed and almost every Republican, with the exception of vulnerable Nebraska representative Don Bacon, voting in favor. ...
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