The joint exercise reinforced preparation for threats to the security of the Panama Canal and other strategic infrastructure.

My point was that having built the Panama Canal, the United States had more right to it than the Russians did to the straits between the Black and Mediterranean Seas, ...

In March, during a joint address to Congress, U.S. President Donald Trump declared that the United States would be ...

Part of his justification for American ownership of the Panama Canal is that the U.S. “spent more money than ever spent on a project before and lost 38,000 lives” to build it.

The U.S. helped engineer Panama's independence from Colombia to build the canal, which opened in 1914. But it ceded control to Panama in 1999.

Part of his justification for American ownership of the Panama Canal is that the U.S. “spent more money than ever spent on a project before and lost 38,000 lives” to build it.

Panama was then a province of Colombia, which refused to ratify a subsequent 1901 treaty licensing U.S. interests to build the canal. Roosevelt responded by dispatching U.S. warships to Panama’s ...