A combatant command’s name does not move ships, redraw boarders or rewrite treaties. Yet it can shrink a strategic ...

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On November 17, 2025, the agencies announced the signing of a proposed rule to revise the definition of “waters of the United States.” This proposal would implement the Supreme Court's decision in ...

The Equal Earth projection, developed in 2018, portrays the landmasses' areas more accurately than the widely used Mercator projection. Strebe via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 4.0 If you open ...

President Trump recently posted maps depicting the state of New Mexico as “New America.” But though people now use “US” and “America”interchangeably, the two weren’t always synonymous.

When America’s founding fathers set out to create a new country independent from Great Britain, they had a lot of decisions to make. One was simply what to call their invention. Today, the world may ...

President Trump posted a map with an American flag covering most of North America, as well as Iceland and islands in the Caribbean, on Monday morning, a post that follows his previous pushes to take ...

President Donald Trump seemed to hint at the idea of basically taking over all of America’s neighbors and turning them into U.S. states with another bizarre social media post. On Monday, the president ...

President Trump on Sunday posted a map of New Mexico labeled "New America" following the spread of a since-debunked online hoax claiming he had signed an executive order renaming the state. The map ...

The United Nations has voted to replace the predominant world map with one that vastly increases the size of Africa – while shrinking the UK and US. It is the culmination of a recent campaign led by ...

The United Nations on Friday was one vote shy of unanimously adopting a new map of the world that shows Africa's true size, making the continent appear far larger than it does on traditional maps. The ...

LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) — The United Nations General Assembly voted 164-1 Friday to shift away from the Mercator projection, the most widely-used map in the world, and encourage the use of more ...