President Donald Trump announced a series of sweeping changes after being sworn in as the 47th U.S. President on Monday, including renaming of the Gulf of Mexico and Alaska’s Mount Denali -- and plans ...

President-elect Donald Trump has repeatedly suggested the United States take over the Panama Canal, a shipping waterway that cuts across Central America, unless fees for using the canal are lowered.

“The spirit of the frontier is written into our hearts,” said President Trump in his second inaugural address, on Jan. 20, as he cited his foreign policy initiatives. The Gulf of Mexico would be ...

President Trump's tariffs on China have led to a sharp decrease in manufacturing orders and freight vessel sailings from China, and with 75% of its traffic linked to the U.S., that's a headwind for ...

With oil tankers avoiding the Strait of Hormuz, the Panama Canal has driven revenue increases of 10 to 15 percent since the ...

Panama promotes itself “as the bridge of the world, heart of the universe” but lately the narrow Central American Isthmus and its namesake canal that joins the Atlantic to the Pacific have become the ...

A consortium of firms led by BlackRock is buying two key ports in the Panama Canal from a Hong Kong-based firm as part of a $23 billion deal after President Donald Trump expressed concern that the ...

President Trump is reportedly sending his newly confirmed Secretary of State Marco Rubio to Panama for his first foreign trip. It’s potentially a first step in Trump’s plan to take back the nation’s ...

Secretary of State Marco Rubio visits Panama on Saturday in his first foreign trip as part of the Trump administration. His boss, President Trump, says Panama should give the Panama Canal back to the ...

The United States and Panama have officially signed a new defense and security pact aimed at reinforcing control over the Panama Canal, a move that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth claims is critical to ...

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. The cargo ship Cosco Houston ...