In December 2024, U.S. President-elect Donald Trump began repeatedly calling for the return of the Panama Canal to the United States. In a Dec. 21, 2024 post on his social media platform Truth ...

On Dec. 21, 2024, U.S. President-elect Donald Trump called for the return of the Panama Canal to the United States on Truth Social, the social media platform he owns. In one post, which had ...

Panama and the U.S. signed a new security pact on the canal, boosting defense ties as tensions with China over Latin American influence continue to rise.

President Trump says the U.S. needs control of Greenland and the Panama Canal "for national security." Here's why both places are so important.

The Panama Canal was built by the United States between 1904 and 1913, and opened in 1917. Building the canal cost about $375 million, ...

President-elect Donald Trump says he wants ships to pay less to move through the Panama Canal, and he said he would demand control over the canal if he doesn’t get what he wants.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio is visiting Panama in his first international trip. Here’s what to know about the Panama Canal and Trump’s claims about it.

A map created by Newsweek shows the 43 facilities at stake, ... The firm has operated terminals adjacent to the Panama Canal since 1998 and secured a 25-year concession renewal in 2021.

So the canal authority has been looking for ways to get more fresh water to the canal, and they've basically zeroed in on one location where they intend to build a dam. And by building it, they ...

Cargo containers sit stacked as cranes load and unload containers from cargo ships at the Cristobal port, operated by the Panama Ports Company, in Colon, Panama, on Feb. 4, 2025.

Panama's voters approved a 2006 referendum authorizing a major expansion of the canal to accommodate larger modern cargo ships. The expansion took until 2016 and cost more than $5.2 billion.