President Trump pledged to change the name of two natural landmarks in his second inaugural address. Can he do that?

What’s in a name change, after all? The water bordered by the Southern United States, Mexico and Cuba will be critical to ...

President Trump’s territorial assertions sparked a round of rethinking by mapmakers and teachers, snark on social media and sarcasm by at least one other world leader.

After a record-breaking Gulf Coast storm, cities like New Orleans and Pensacola, Florida, have had more snow this winter than Omaha, Des Moines and New York.

People experiencing homelessness are more vulnerable to conditions driven by climate change, whether that’s heat-related ...

As Donald Trump returns to the White House, he has built the most formidable foundation of Republican electoral strength ...

An economist's harrowing escape from fire, and her big ideas to rescue California from its insurance doom spiral.

Cold weather took hold over much of country with limited precipitation, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor.

Among the first executive orders signed by President Donald Trump was an order to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the newly ...

A federal judge Thursday temporarily blocked the president's executive order ending the constitutional guarantee of birthright citizenship.

A Civil War map in the National Archives in College Park, Maryland reads, “S. E. Missouri, Country Around Ironton” on its ...

Pure Chicago. The kind of place where the waitstaff might call you “hon” and mean it, where the jukebox in the corner has ...