A rumor circulating online in late December 2024 claimed U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert said Egypt owns the Panama Canal. We ...

President-elect Donald Trump suggested on Wednesday that the U.S. could take control of Canada, Greenland and the Panama ...

It’s hard to know how seriously to take Mr. Trump’s broadsides. But threatening a takeover that would require an invasion may ...

The U.S. helped Panama secede from Colombia in 1903 to build the passage that now carries more than 10,000 ships a year.

In late December, Donald Trump suggested the United States should retake control of the Panama Canal in his second term. He claims Panama is imposing “ridiculous” fees on ships passing through this ...

The social and racial divide along the Panama Canal zone in its American heyday was stark: a silver and gold, segregated ...

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has it in for Panama—he has called on Panama to reduce fees for the Panama Canal or return ...

Explore the Panama Canal's vital role in global trade: operations, tolls, and its impact on the world economy.

The U.S. helped engineer Panama's independence from Colombia to build the canal, which opened in 1914. But it ceded control ...

Teddy Roosevelt once declared the Panama Canal “one of the feats to which the people of this republic will look back with the ...