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 ...

The gulf serves as an important center of economic activity, including fishing, electricity generation, and shipping. Why does the gulf bear Mexico's name?

Powerful Hurricane Rafael slammed into Cuba as a major hurricane on Wednesday. The late-season tropical system has now emerged in the Gulf of Mexico, but the question now turns to where it is going… ...

Hurricane Rafael, still a Category 2 storm with sustained winds of 105 mph, turned west-northwestward over the southeastern Gulf of Mexico after tearing across Cuba Wednesday, according to the ...

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.

Cuba was reeling from a fierce major hurricane that ripped across the island and knocked out its power grid, after ravaging parts of the Cayman Islands and Jamaica.

Cuba has not indicated whether it will observe the changed name. The United Kingdom is one of several countries that has said it will continue referring to the waterway as the Gulf of Mexico.

Where Rafael, now in the Gulf of Mexico, may go next There have already been storm impacts in the southeastern United States after Hurricane Rafael made landfall in Cuba. See where the storm may ...

The National Hurricane Center (NHC) announced on Saturday that a broad area of low pressure is being monitored for potential ...

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.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order renaming the Gulf of Mexico, but who actually owns the waterway that touches multiple countries?