President Donald Trump’s threats to “take the Panama Canal back,” combined with climate change, have ignited a global debate ...

President Donald Trump wants the U.S. to take back the Panama Canal. The shovels used to construct it were built by Bucyrus in South Milwaukee.

On February 1, 1881, driven by patriotic fervor and capitalized by over 100,000 mostly small investors, the French Compagnie Universelle du Canal Interocéanique began work on a canal that would ...

Potential plans range from partnering more closely with Panamanian security forces to a less likely option of U.S. troops' ...