US Navy ships will go through the Panama Canal for free, an American official said following Secretary of State Marco Rubio's ...

The 50-mile Panama Canal was a multi-national, multi-decade project to link two oceans and transform global shipping. After completion in 1914, the canal helped turn the United States into an economic ...

In the 1970s, a conservative coalition came together to fight ceding control of the Panama Canal—proving the political potency of the issue.

And it was finally finished during the US presidency of Theodore Roosevelt. From the inception of the US project in 1903 up until 1979, the Panama Canal and the surrounding area (extending five ...

The Panama Canal is no stranger to global attention ... as the waterway underwent a multibillion-dollar expansion finished in 2016 to accommodate NeoPanamax vessels, the supersized container ...

The president-elect claims it’s vital for national and economic security. As President-elect Donald Trump prepares to assume later this month, he is ramping up his threats to take over a ...

(CNN) — The Panama Canal is no stranger to global attention ... as the waterway underwent a multibillion-dollar expansion finished in 2016 to accommodate NeoPanamax vessels, the supersized ...

Finished in 2011, the soaring 70-story ... business experience played a role in his current fixation on the Panama Canal. Trump, he noted, has a far longer history attacking the handover agreement.

More than a century after American engineers completed the Panama Canal, and 25 years after the ... was paid for by the Panamanian government and finished in 2016 at a cost of $5.2bn.

The U.S. also agreed to guarantee the independence of Panama, according to the Office of the Historian. After more than a decade of construction, the U.S. finished building the canal on Aug. 15 ...