Panama is celebrating the 25th anniversary of the U.S. handover of the Panama Canal, which president-elect Donald Trump has ...

President-elect Donald Trump says he wants ships to pay less to move through the Panama Canal, and he said he would demand ...

“As President, I want to express clearly that every square meter of the Panama Canal and its adjacent zone belongs to Panama, and will continue to do so,” Mulino said in video ...

President-elect Donald Trump has repeatedly suggested the United States take over the Panama Canal, a shipping waterway that cuts across Central America, unless fees for using the canal are lowered.

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Panamanian President Jose Raul Mulino rejected Trump's threat. He said the canal's tariffs were carefully and transparently ...

After a chaotic week in Congress over the stopgap spending bill, Trump threatened to retake the Panama Canal in a lengthy post on Truth Social on Saturday night. Trump accused Panama of charging ...

President-elect Donald Trump threatened on Saturday that the U.S. would reassume control of the Panama Canal if it felt that Panama wasn’t honoring the terms of a 1977 treaty regarding the ...

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, Donald Trump is ...