The United States military teamed with Panamanian police to conduct a series of new exercises aimed at protecting the Panama ...

These drills come amid Donald Trump’s repeated claims of excessive Chinese influence over the crucial trade route, despite ...

By bnl editorial staff US helicopters have arrived in Panama to begin collaborative training exercises with local security forces, as tensions mount over the strategic waterway's future amid competing ...

“A man, a plan, a canal — Panama,” so the famous palindrome goes. Just a quick history review. The U.S. took over canal construction from the French in 1904, completing it in 1914 for $375 ...

In 1905, Panama granted the U.S. rights to build and administer the canal. It was the single most expensive construction project in U.S. history at the time, costing approximately $375,000,000, or ...

Panama President Jose Raul Mulino said Thursday there will be no negotiation with the United States over ownership of the Panama Canal, and he hopes U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio's upcoming ...

By the 1970s, with its administrative costs sharply increasing, Washington spent years negotiating with Panama to cede control of the waterway. The Carter administration worked with the government ...

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.

Panama President Jose Raul Mulino said he will not discuss control of the Panama Canal with U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio during his upcoming visit.

Forty percent of all U.S. container traffic travels through the Panama Canal every year, and in all, $270 billion in cargo annually. The U.S. and China are the top users of the Panama Canal, and ...

PANAMA CITY (AP) — Teddy Roosevelt once declared the Panama Canal “one of the feats to which the people of this republic will look back with the highest pride.” More than a century later ...