Hurricane Rafael churned in the open waters of the Gulf of Mexico on Thursday, moving away from Cuba after pummeling the country with flooding rain and knocking out its vulnerable electrical grid.

Hurricane Rafael is swirling over the Gulf of Mexico, where it’s expected to break apart after plowing through Cuba, knocking out its power grid and collapsing homes.

As it plowed across Cuba, the storm slowed to a Category 2 hurricane chugging into the southeastern Gulf of Mexico, said the Miami-based hurricane center in an advisory early Thursday.

Tropical Storm Gustav left 22 dead in Haiti and the Dominican Republic before it pulled away from the countries Wednesday, ...

The shores of the gulf touch not just the United States, but also wide swaths of Mexico’s east coast and parts of Cuba. On his first day in office, Trump announced that he would sign an ...

The Gulf of Mexico is a major economic center for the US, Mexico and Cuba . Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent. Notifications can be managed in browser preferences.

Hurricane Rafael made landfall in Cuba Wednesday evening as a Category 3 hurricane before beginning to weaken as it moved toward the southeastern Gulf of Mexico. However, Cuba continues to be ...

It’s forecast to become only the fifth hurricane to roam the Gulf of Mexico in November since 1966, according to hurricane expert Michael Lowry. Rafael’s future track is uncertain ...

Mexico has argued that the Gulf of America label should only apply to the part over the U.S. continental shelf. The U.S. has control over about 46% of the gulf, Mexico controls about 49% and Cuba ...

Goodbye, Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council. ... NOAA Fisheries’ decision-making in the the 617,000-square-mile gulf that abuts five Southern states — as well Mexico and Cuba. ...

President Claudia Sheinbaum of Mexico on Friday morning said her government had sued Google over the company’s decision to label the Gulf of Mexico as “Gulf of America” — a spat going back ...

The US has control over about 46% of the gulf, Mexico controls about 49% and Cuba controls about 5%, according to Sovereign Limits, a database of international boundaries.