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Mexico sues Google over 'Gulf of America' name change


President Sheinbaum argues Trump's executive order applies only to the US portion of the continental shelf.

On Thursday, the Republican-led House of Representatives voted to officially rename the Gulf for federal agencies. US President Donald Trump signed an executive order on his first day in office in January calling for the body of water to be renamed, arguing the change was justified because the US "do most of the work there, and it's ours". Sheinbaum wrote a letter to Google in January asking the firm to reconsider its decision to rename the Gulf of Mexico for US users.

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