President Donald Trump announced a series of sweeping changes after being sworn in as the 47th U.S. President on Monday, including plans to "take back" the Panama Canal.

President Trump is reportedly dispatching his newly confirmed Secretary of State Marco Rubio to Panama for his first foreign ...

Trump is right to lament the lives lost for the creation of the canal. They were mostly Black Caribbean migrant workers, ...

Here’s what the USA TODAY Fact Check Team found after researching some of Trump’s ... “The United States, I mean think of this, spent more money (on the Panama Canal) than ever spent on a project ...

The Panama Canal, an 82-km (51-mile) artificial waterway that connects the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, saves ships thousands of miles and weeks of travel. Before it was built, ships had to make ...

Panama has owned and administered the Panama Canal for nearly three decades. President Trump wants to change that to counter growing Chinese influence in Latin America.

When the Panama Canal was unveiled by the United States in 1914, the roughly 50-mile-long waterway symbolized American power ...

A quarter-century after the U.S. handed control of the Panama Canal to Panama, President Donald Trump wants to take it back. Early this month, Trump suggested he would consider using military ...

Tensions between Panama and the U.S. rose after World War II ... China does not control the Panama Canal itself. But before the handover, a Hong Kong shipping company, Hutchison Ports PPC ...

Nonetheless, Trump’s bet is to not have to pursue military conquest in the Athenian way. He would rather have a complacent ...

Here’s what the USA TODAY Fact Check Team found after researching some ... spent more money (on the Panama Canal) than ever spent on a project before.” The U.S. also spent about $40 ...