Donald Trump has said repeatedly that he wants to “take back” the Panama Canal but has not offered specifics about how he ...

President Trump repeated vows to secure U.S. control of Greenland and the Panama Canal in his speech to ... it is a semi-autonomous territory of the Kingdom of Denmark, with its own elected ...

One way or the other, we’re going to get it,” President Donald Trump said of Greenland, asserting that the autonomous Danish territory and the Panama Canal were vital to security.

It was built in the early 1900s. The US maintained control over the canal zone until 1977, when treaties gradually ceded the land back to Panama. After a period of joint control, Panama took sole ...

But on Tuesday evening during a joint address to Congress, Trump said his administration was taking steps to reclaim the Panama Canal, and he resumed his push for the U.S. to acquire Greenland.

Rubio said that the U.S. would be obligated to protect the Panama Canal if it came under attack, adding that he found it “absurd that we would have to pay fees to transit a zone that we are ...