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Senate Confirms North Dakota's Burgum

Senate confirms North Dakota's Burgum as Trump interior secretary

The U.S. Senate on Thursday confirmed Doug Burgum, the former governor of North Dakota, as President Donald Trump's interior secretary. The vote was 79 to 18. Burgum, 68, will lead an agency that guides the use of 500 million acres (202 million hectares) of federal and tribal land,

U.S. News & World Report · 1d

Big Oil Wants a Lot From Trump. It Has an Ally in Doug Burgum, the President's Interior Pick

Emails obtained by The Associated Press reveal Doug Burgum as North Dakota governor catered to the whims of oil and gas executives while leveraging those connections to expand his political profile

NBC News · 20h

Senate confirms Doug Burgum as interior secretary; Kash Patel, Tulsi Gabbard and RFK Jr. testify at confirmation hearings

Updates on the Senate confirmation hearings as RFK Jr., Kash Patel and Tulsi Gabbard undergo questions on their qualifications to join Trump's Cabinet.

Chevron calls Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America

USA TODAY on MSN · 11d

Donald Trump to rename Gulf of Mexico to 'Gulf of America' and change Denali to McKinley

The executive order will direct the secretary of the interior to change the name to "Gulf of America” for use on official maps and throughout the federal government, according to the New York Post, which first reported the news. Trump has nominated Republican North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum to the Department of Interior.

Scientific American · 3d

Can Trump Just Order New Names for Denali and the Gulf of Mexico?

The state of Alaska requested the name change in 1975, but the Board on Geographic Names didn’t take action. Members of the Ohio congressional delegation – President William McKinley was from Ohio – objected over many years to requests to rename the mountain, and the board did not act on those requests.

Tennessean · 3d

Google says Gulf of Mexico will change to Gulf of America in Maps app: Here's how

Google said the name changes, which also includes using Mount McKinley, will happen when Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) is updated.

11hon MSN

The Gulf of Mexico is now Gulf of America. What are some other notable location name changes?

One of President Donald Trump's first courses of action when he was inaugurated last week was to sign executive orders changing the names of two major landforms in the Americas. Trump signed orders ...

ABC News10d

Trump renames Gulf of Mexico to 'Gulf of America' among 1st executive orders

He has appointed former North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum for the position ... "We're going to be changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, which has a beautiful ring that ...

CBS News3d

Google Maps users in U.S. will see Gulf of Mexico renamed Gulf of America and Denali changed to Mount McKinley

Google Maps users in the United States can expect to see the body of water known for centuries as the Gulf of Mexico renamed the ... in southern Alaska and North America's tallest peak, is going ...

Newsweek3d

US Google Maps Users to See 'Gulf of America' Instead of 'Gulf of Mexico'

The executive order to rename the Gulf of Mexico was one of several signed by Trump on his first day back in office. Other measures included renaming Denali, North America's tallest peak ...

What's in the Gulf of Mexico? Meet its 'Hot Tub of Despair' and ancient corals.

You might be hearing about the gulf off the coast of the U.S. and Mexico. Here's what to know about the body of water the ...

CBS News6d

Interior Department says Gulf of Mexico now renamed to Gulf of America, Denali to Mount McKinley

The Gulf of Mexico has been renamed to the Gulf of America, the Interior Department announced Friday, while the name of North America's highest peak, Alaska's Denali, has been changed back to ...

The New York Times4d

‘The Gulf of America’? Here’s What Mexicans and Cubans Think.

Ms. Sheinbaum showed a world map from 1607 that labeled North America as Mexican America and identified the Gulf of Mexico as such — 169 years before the United States was founded.

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