Since taking office, President Donald Trump has expressed interest — unprecedented in the modern era — in expanding the size ...

Vessels in queue for transit across the Panama Canal stood at 128 ships on September ... warned that a handy size vessel owner is still looking at a US$ 160,000 lump sum for a 10-day wait at ...

Theodore Roosevelt modeled himself after Ulysses S. Grant. Franklin Roosevelt was a great admirer of his fifth cousin, Theodore Roosevelt. Lyndon Johnson and Joe Biden aimed to be latter-day ...

In this episode of Need to Know, host John Milewski speaks with Benjamin Gedan, Director of the Wilson Center's Latin America Program, about the geopolitical and economic significance of the Panama ...

The number of vessels that passed through the Panama Canal, the world's second busiest waterway, fell to an average of 32.6 ...

In recent years the operation of the Panama Canal has been increasingly affected by changes in rainfall, and some data ...

The Panamanian political leadership presumably hasn't been sleeping so well the past several weeks. After the election, Trump ...

Panama on Thursday rejected the United States' claim of securing free passage for its government vessels through the Panama Canal, while bowing to US pressure to quit a key Chinese project.

Whether the U.S. or Panama own the Panama Canal, one of the largest routes for ship traffic in the world still faces horrible ...

China has summoned Panama’s ambassador to the country for pulling out of the multi-billion-dollar Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), following US President Donald Trump’s threat to take back the Panama ...

President Trump has thrown down the gauntlet to the Panamanian government-threatening to retake the canal, by force if ...

A recent drought in Panama was so severe that the canal had to reduce traffic. How is climate change impacting Panama -- and ...