An overview of Panama's historical ties to the U.S. and where the crisis might be headed next.

The Trump administration is taking proactive measures to regain control over the Panama Canal and reduce Chinese influence at ...

Panama President José Raúl Mulino has rejected the U.S. State Department’s claim that his country had reached a deal allowing ...

Supporters of the move believe USAID was poorly managed and wasting taxpayers' money, with White House Press Secretary ...

President Trump is wrong when he says China controls the Panama Canal. But the U.S. rival does have influence there, and the ...

Trump has characterized the fees for transiting the canal that connects the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans as “ridiculous.” Story continues below this ad • Vásquez stressed that the Panama Canal ...

(The Hill) – Russia warned President Trump on Tuesday against seizing the Panama Canal, after he reiterated his intent to take control of the strategic waterway in his second inaugural address Monday.

The Gulf of Mexico is a vital body of water found along the southeastern coast of North America. It is bounded by the United States in the north, Mexico in the south, and Cuba to its southeast.

U.S. President Donald Trump’s insistence Monday that he wants to have the Panama Canal back under U.S. control fed nationalist sentiment and worry in Panama, home to the critical trade route and ...

On a sunny day last week, a group of American teen-agers marched up and raised a U.S. flag over their high school at Balboa in the Panama Canal Zone. It seemed an everyday thing to do. But in the ...

Current and former government officials, senior canal officials and residents ... the former foreign minister of Panama noted the irony of the location. Like so many here, Ritter was primarily ...

At a gathering for the conservative Turning Point USA organization on Dec. 22, Trump proclaimed, “We’re being ripped off at the Panama Canal like we’re being ripped off everywhere else.” ...