Forty five years after the U.S. first considered building it, the Panama Canal opened to the public. Explore a timeline of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Getty Images In December 2024, U.S. President-elect Donald Trump began repeatedly calling for the return of the Panama Canal to ...

In his first speech as America's 47th president on Jan. 20, 2025, Donald Trump called for the U.S. to gain control of the Panama Canal, stating, "We're taking it back." Without evidence to support his ...

As Secretary of State Marco Rubio heads to Panama on his first official foreign trip, reassumption of American control over the Panama Canal Zone is on the agenda. With Panama refusing to back down, a ...

President-elect Donald Trump on Sunday floated the idea of taking over the Panama Canal — a vital maritime route for global trade that was once under American control. At a rally in Arizona, Trump ...

During the decade-long American effort to build the Panama Canal, the project had three different Chief Engineers.

TAMPA Fla. (Reuters) - The 100th anniversary of the opening of the Panama Canal, hailed at the time as one of the world's great wonders, has inspired a celebration in central Florida to showcase the ...

For over 40 years, Capt. Efraín Hallax, 73, has been steering vessels through the canal, and he has seen it all, from a dictator’s fall to the rise of U.S. interest in retaking the waterway. Capt.

The former American zone has turned dystopian, and now China is making moves. Featured in the Jan/Feb 2024 issue For the Americans who live in Panama, their frustration is not just about the ...

Collection documents Panama, the Panama Canal, the Canal Zone, the San Blas Islands, military installations in Panama, villages, local buildings, people, flora and fauna, circa 1945. A collection of ...

Thousand-foot-long ships chug through the Panama Canal’s waters each day, over the submerged stumps of a forgotten forest and by the banks of a new one, its canopies full of screeching parrots and ...

The Panama Canal Repurchase Act, introduced by Rep. Dusty Johnson (R-S.D.) in Congress, has brought renewed attention to the Panama Canal’s status. The proposed legislation, supported by ...