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 pulled away from Cuba Thursday morning after slamming into the island as a Category 3 hurricane and taking down its entire power grid for about 24 hours. A significant shift in ...

HAVANA (AP) — Hurricane Rafael pushed into the Gulf of Mexico on Wednesday night after plowing across western Cuba as a Category 3 hurricane with winds so powerful it knocked out the entire ...

Cuba is working to recover after Hurricane Rafael hit the island on Wednesday. The National Hurricane Center said at 4:15 p.m. ET the storm struck the Cuban province of Artemisa just east of ...

Hurricane Rafael formed Tuesday night as it passed through the Cayman Islands with maximum sustained wind speeds of 80 mph, according to the latest update from the National Hurricane Center.

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’s path is now expected to steer away from the southeastern Gulf Coast and is expected to become a major hurricane as it looks to make landfall in western Cuba later Wednesday.

Rafael continues to strengthen and is now expected to be a Category 2 hurricane when it makes landfall in Cuba Wednesday. After that, a weakened Rafael will move into the warm waters of the Gulf ...