Since taking office, President Donald Trump has expressed interest — unprecedented in the modern era — in expanding the size ...

Vessels in queue for transit across the Panama Canal stood at 128 ships on September ... warned that a handy size vessel owner is still looking at a US$ 160,000 lump sum for a 10-day wait at ...

Theodore Roosevelt modeled himself after Ulysses S. Grant. Franklin Roosevelt was a great admirer of his fifth cousin, Theodore Roosevelt. Lyndon Johnson and Joe Biden aimed to be latter-day ...

In recent years the operation of the Panama Canal has been increasingly affected by changes in rainfall, and some data ...

Rarely do Panamanians unite on political topics, but threats to the ownership of the canal go to the heart of national ...

In this episode of Need to Know, host John Milewski speaks with Benjamin Gedan, Director of the Wilson Center's Latin America Program, about the geopolitical and economic significance of the Panama ...

The president claims Chinese soldiers are working in the canal. That’s nonsense.

His target? The Panama Canal. Trump tapped into a familiar set of grievances in his inauguration speech as justification for taking back the waterway, claiming that “American ships are being sev ...

The Panamanian political leadership presumably hasn't been sleeping so well the past several weeks. After the election, Trump ...

Panama on Thursday rejected the United States' claim of securing free passage for its government vessels through the Panama Canal, while bowing to US pressure to quit a key Chinese project.

which has been under tremendous pressure from President Trump over how it runs the Panama Canal. The more than 100 migrants on the flight, including families, had entered the United States ...