Mexico has sued Google for adopting the name “Gulf of America” for users of Google Maps in the United States, President Claudia Sheinbaum said, making good on an earlier threat to take legal ...

Richard Connor with AFP, AP, dpa 05/10/2025 Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum says her government has sued Google for calling the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America on its maps.

Mexico is suing tech giant Google for labeling the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America for U.S. users, after President Trump ordered the U.S. government to change the body of water's name ...

Mexico President Claudia Sheinbaum is asking Google to limit any renaming of the body of water to the U.S. continental shelf, as dictated by U.S. President Donald Trump’s executive order.

Mexico has argued that, if the US is to adopt the term “Gulf of America”, the new name should only apply to the part of the gulf that sits over the US continental shelf.

The name “Gulf of Mexico" came nearly 300 years before Mexico — which lays claim to most of the gulf — became an independent country, and it has appeared on maps for centuries. Mexicans and ...

Mexico President Claudia Sheinbaum is asking Google to limit any renaming of the body of water to the U.S. continental shelf, as dictated by U.S. President Donald Trump’s executive order.

House Republicans passed a bill on Thursday that will formally codify into law the renaming of the Gulf of Mexico into the Gulf of America, though it faces an unlikely path in the Senate. The bill ...

Representative Brandon Gill of Texas, a Republican, wrote on X: "House Republicans just passed the Gulf of America Act. The choice was simple: America or Mexico. 205 Democrats chose Mexico." ...

Send an email to Jacob. The House of Representatives voted on Thursday to officially rename the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America in federal documents. The vote was 211-to-206.

“We can focus on 40 million Americans saddled with medical debt, or we could rename the Gulf of Mexico,” Representative Julie Johnson, Democrat of Texas, said this week on the House floor.

Mississippi lawmaker wanted to rename the Gulf In 2012, Rep. Steve Holland, D-Plantersville, introduced a bill at the state level to rename the Gulf of Mexico as the “Gulf of America.” ...