President Trump's priorities of immigration enforcement and promoting U.S. interests in the Panama Canal lead the political agenda in Washington.

Donald Trump cast himself both as a peacemaker and fierce defender of US interests in a mercurial return to the White House on Monday, vowing to seize the Panama Canal but also imploring Russia to make a deal on Ukraine.

The neutrality of the nearly 50-mile canal, through which nearly 15,000 ships transit each year, is enshrined in Panama’s Constitution and is enforced by the autonomous Panama Canal Authority.

“There is no presence of any nation in the world that ... research organization in Washington. The United States began building the canal in 1904, the year after Panama gained independence ...

Donald Trump cast himself both as a peacemaker and fierce defender of US interests in a mercurial return to the White House on Monday, vowing to seize the Panama Canal but also imploring Russia to make a deal on Ukraine.

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. He suggested in his ...

roughly 4 percent of the world’s maritime trade and more than 40 percent of US container traffic traverse the 51-mile route across the Isthmus of Panama. The canal has defined Quijano’s adult ...

In his first address after being sworn in on Monday, President Donald Trump repeated several false and misleading statements that he made during his campaign.

US President Donald Trump has vowed to "take back" the Panama ... The canal, which was completed in August 1914, is one of the two most strategic artificial waterways in the world — the other ...

The president who built his fan base on isolationism is pivoting to a kind of imperialism that the U.S. hasn’t seen in decades.

Panama has owned and administered the Panama Canal for nearly three decades. President Trump wants to change that to counter growing Chinese influence in Latin America.

They say they fought too hard to wrest it from the U.S. to now hand back the waterway, which is part of the nation’s identity.