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

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

The United States and Panama equally are authorized to maintain neutrality over the canal. "Each party can take unilateral action" and "can act by whatever means necessary to keep canal operations ...

Depending on the size, weight, and type of vessel, ship owners often pay anywhere between $15,000 and $300,000 in basic fees ...

In recent weeks, when he was President-elect Donald Trump publicly said that Panama should return the Panama Canal to the United States, and he would not rule out using military force to reclaim it.

The visit to Panama comes as President Donald Trump has railed against the South American country for weeks, calling for the United States to reclaim the Panama Canal.

"The United States has a vested interest in the secure, efficient, and reliable operation of the Panama Canal, and that was always understood. We would and will NEVER let it fall into the wrong hands!

news Politics. A history of the Panama Canal — and why Trump can’t take it back on his own The president-elect is threatening to take back the waterway when he takes office.

The United States handed control of the canal over to Panama in December 1999 after a period of joint-administration that followed U.S.-Panamanian accords signed in 1977.

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 ...