The US is the biggest user of the Canal, but influence on its operations is dispersed among contracts with bidders ...

A multibillion-dollar expansion helped the canal accommodate king-size cargo ships. It might also be fueling ecological ...

Over decades, a shift in US military strategy, larger carriers and the growth of commerce on the West Coast deemphasized US ...

Republican lawmakers are scratching their heads over President-elect Trump’s ambitions to take over Greenland and the Panama ...

President-elect Trump on Tuesday refused to commit to not using the U.S. military to gain control of the Panama Canal, after ...

President-elect Donald Trump unveiled sweeping plans for US territorial expansion in the Western Hemisphere during a news ...

President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday said he would not rule out the use of military force to seize control of the Panama ...

“The Panama Canal is doing quite well,” Donald Trump ... our wings and get in that game also.” But is military expansion actually on the table as Trump warned, or is Trump engaged in public ...

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.

The U.S. acquired the rights to build and operate the canal in the early 20th century, but at the time, Panama was in the ...