Google Maps has made the switch — for Americans, at least. A search on the mapping app on Sunday shows the name “Lake America” for the body of water adjoining northern New York and southern Ontario, known until very recently — and still to most — as Lake Ontario. President Donald Trump signed an executive
President Donald Trump renamed Lake Ontario as Lake America, and it’s making waves on the internet. After tense trade talks between the US and Canada collapsed and the US imposed new 50% tariffs on billions of dollars’ worth of Canadian goods, Trump turned to another tool in his arsenal: rebranding. On Thursday, Trump issued an
The U.S. can’t fully reopen the Strait of Hormuz, and Iran can’t stop every ship from transporting oil through narrow waterway. At the same time, the U.S. is preventing Iran from exporting its crude supplies or importing critical goods, while American forces grapple with munitions and readiness issues. The result has been a stalemate where
Health officials in Louisiana are urging beachgoers to take precautions during a summertime surge in infections from a flesh-eating bacteria found in coastal waters. Louisiana has confirmed nine cases of Vibrio vulnificus infections this year, the state’s health department said last week in a news release. All were hospitalized, and five died. During the same period over the
Communities along the U.S. Gulf Coast distributed sandbags and closed beaches as Tropical Storm Bertha threatened to bring flooding and high winds Wednesday from the Florida Panhandle to Louisiana. Bertha was forecast to make landfall Wednesday night in the sparsely populated coastal part of Louisiana southeast of New Orleans, with wind the biggest threat, according
A tropical storm swirling in the US Gulf is expected to bring heavy rain and “life-threatening storm surge” to the southeast of the country, according to the National Hurricane Center (NHC). Tropical Storm Bertha was located about 105 miles (165 kilometers) south of Panama City, Florida, with winds of 40 mph (65 km/h) on Monday.