President Donald Trump is a man with a plan for the canal, namely to force Panama to limit China’s influence on the vital 50-mile shortcut between the Atlantic and the Pacific or risk the United ...

The US said Wednesday that its government vessels would sail for free through the Panama Canal, but authorities at the ...

The State Department said Wednesday that "U.S. government vessels can now transit the Panama Canal without charge fees." ...

The State Department claimed it had struck a deal that would save the U.S. government “millions of dollars a year.” ...

American national security observers, knowing the strategic value of the canal and that around 72 percent of the transiting ships are “either going ... Caribbean allies, any effort to pressure ...