When a government seeks to reshape the language of geography, it encounters the quiet but firm boundary between official decree and independent press. The Associated Press, reviewing a Trump executive order directing federal agencies to alter their references to Lake Ontario, determined that the directive's reach ends at the edge of government itself — leaving news organizations, international bodies, and neighboring nations untouched by its mandate. In maintaining its established naming conventions, the AP affirmed a principle as old as the American republic: that editorial authority and gove