They say they fought too hard to wrest it from the U.S. to now hand back the waterway, which is part of the nation’s identity.

Marco Rubio's first trip as U.S. secretary of state to Central America to address migration and Panama Canal concerns.

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The neutrality of the nearly 50-mile canal, through which nearly 15,000 ships transit each year, is enshrined in Panama’s ...

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio will visit Panama and four other countries in Central America and the Caribbean starting ...

William McKinley, the 25th president, loved tariffs and expanded American territory. What more do you need to know?

On Christmas Day, Trump posted on social media that the "wonderful soldiers of China" were "lovingly, but illegally, ...

"All previously scheduled travel of refugees to the US is being cancelled," a State Department memo says, following an ...

Trump has suggested using military force to retake the Panama Canal, but such an action would involve complications.

The answer is simple: there is no greater or more idealistic symbol of U.S. power in the world than the Panama Canal. As ...

The project was a "tropical hell" marked by brutal racial segregation and the mass mortality of foreign workers ...

Donald Trump’s insistence that he wants to have the Panama Canal back under U.S. control is feeding nationalist sentiment and ...