A boat is seen on the Susitna River near Talkeetna in 2021 with Denali in the background. (Mark Thiessen/Associated Press) President Donald Trump on Monday issued an executive order to change the ...

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — President Donald Trump on Monday vowed to rename North America's tallest peak, Denali in Alaska, as Mount McKinley — reviving an idea he floated years ago that at that ...

President Donald Trump has issued a flurry of executive orders — including one to change the official name of North America's tallest mountain.

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The Obama-era change followed decades of requests from Native Alaskan leaders for the mountain’s native name ‘Denali’, a Koyukon Athabaskan word meaning "the tall one," "the high one" or "the great ...

Trump suggested he wants to revert the name of North America’s tallest mountain — Alaska’s Denali — to Mount McKinley. Obama changed the official name to Denali in 2015 to reflect the ...

During his inaugural address, President Donald Trump said he will rename the Gulf of Mexico to the "Gulf of America," something that he has mentioned previously. “America will reclaim its ...

President Donald Trump on Monday issued an executive order seeking to rename the Gulf of Mexico and change the name of North America’s tallest peak, Denali in Alaska, back to Mount McKinley.

Centuries ago, Alaska's native Koyukon people settled on the name "Denali" for the tallest mountain in North America. Then, in 1896, a random European-American gold prospector decided to name it after ...