The Interior Department announced last week that they were already working to implement Trump's requested name change to Mount McKinley.

Politics / Lisa Murkowski demanded that the president respect that “Greenland is not for sale.” John Nichols Alaska Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski is absolutely and unequivocally refusing to go along with Donald Trump’s increasingly aggressive maneuvering to make Greenland a part of the United States.

The President's order to rename Denali, North America's highest peak, back to Mount McKinley does not agree with Alaska senator.

Many Alaskans continued to use "Denali" in daily life, and Alaska Republicans never gave up on the cause. Soon after Regula's retirement in 2009, GOP senator Lisa Murkowski began pushing again ...

Alaskans say they will never stop calling the peak Denali despite President Trump’s executive order that the name revert to Mt. McKinley.

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Palin’s Secret Service code name was Denali in 2008 when she was GOP presidential nominee John McCain’s running mate the year they lost to Obama and Joe Biden. But in an interview with Al ...

President Trump wants to change the name of the Denali Mountain in Alaska (which at 20,310’ 42”is the tallest mountain in all of North America) to Mt. McKinley, its old name. This has apparently enraged not just the Koyukon people who’ve been calling it Denali since time immemorial but also many Republicans who call the state home.

A pro-Trump Republican who represents the state House district that includes Denali is now backing a resolution asking Trump to keep the peak’s name intact.

Manifest Destiny” is back, with Donald Trump as its champion. In the 19th century, the phrase was used to invoke the divine justification for the United States to expand its territory westward all the way to the Pacific — in bloody campaigns that saw the conquering of Mexican and Native American lands.

Missouri has a Republican trifecta and a Republican triplex. The Republican Party controls the offices of governor, secretary of state, attorney general, and both chambers of the state legislature. As of January 30, 2025, there are 23 Republican trifectas ...