The U.S. acquired the rights to build and operate the canal in the early 20th century, but at the time, Panama was in the ...

“To build the canal, the United States had helped Panama gain independence from Colombia, thereby dismembering a sister republic to secure a canal treaty that secured U.S. interests,” Panamanian ...

President-elect Donald Trump is decrying rising shipping fees Panama has imposed to use the Panama Canal. He’s even ...

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

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

In recent days President-elect Trump has showed that his “America First” philosophy has an expansionist dimension.

Panama President Jose Raul Mulino on Sunday dismissed recent threats made by U.S. President-elect Donald Trump to retake ...

President-elect Donald Trump on Sunday said he wants to change the name of the highest mountain in North America from Denali ...

Sitting here this morning kept hearing sirens and bells And I'm just hoping that everyone is well When in front of my house comes all sorts of clatter So I jump out of my chair to see ... more ...

Theodore Roosevelt became the first sitting U.S. president to make a diplomatic visit outside the continental United States, sailing to ...

Why did the US gain and relinquish the Panama Canal’s control, and why did Trump flag China’s presence in the region? We ...