The critical waterway has a complex history. Why does Trump want it back? And what does China have to do with it?

President-elect Trump criticized Jimmy Carter's diplomacy that led to the Panamanians regaining control of the PCZ nearly 100 years after Teddy Roosevelt helped the U.S. take it over.

President Trump’s secretary of state arrived in Panama City on Saturday with a brazen mandate from his boss and a wary host.

The Panama Canal Authority leader denied that China controls the waterway, warning President-elect Trump against ending the ...

Protests broke out in Panama ahead of Marco Rubio's first overseas trip as US Secretary of State, with police firing tear gas ...

Panama President José Raúl Mulino says there will be no negotiation with the United States over ownership of the Panama Canal ...

Authorities of Panama and Greenland have repeatedly said they won't hand over any territory to Trump, with Panama's president ...

Panama has owned and administered the Panama Canal for nearly three decades. President Trump wants to change that to counter ...

The aggressive rhetoric of US President Donald Trump has shocked Panamanians, who see the waterway as a source of enormous ...

PANAMA CITY — Marco Rubio’s weekend visit to Panama is set to offer clues to a pressing question: whether the next four years ...

Marco Rubio will travel to Panama on his first trip abroad as secretary of State. The visit comes as Donald Trump looks to ...

On Dec. 31, 1999, the U.S. relinquished control of the canal to Panama under a treaty negotiated by President Jimmy Carter and ratified by the Senate in 1978 in what Trump has called “a terrible ...