And in 1904, Panama granted the United States the right to build and operate a canal and control five miles of land on either side of the water. But ownership of the region had been a thorny issue for ...

During his inaugural address in January, President Trump proclaimed that “China is operating the Panama Canal” and promised that the United States would be “taking it back.” Shortly after ...

Panama President Jose Raul Mulino has accused his American counterpart, Donald Trump, of lying when he told members of Congress that the United States is “reclaiming” the Panama Canal.

4, 2025. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix, File) Containers are stacked on a cargo ship moving through the Panama Canal’s Cocoli locks in Panama City, Feb. 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix, File) A ...

The Panama Canal is a man-made waterway that was developed as a shortcut for cargo ships looking to travel around North and Central America without having to make the entire trek around the continent.

"Just today, a large American company announced they are buying both ports around the Panama Canal and lots of other things having to do with the Panama Canal and a couple of other canals," Trump ...

to buy a controlling stake in the company held by a Hong-Kong based group that operates ports near both ends of the Panama Canal. The announcement came after the president alleged Chinese ...

The latest came Tuesday when the world’s largest money manager announced that a BlackRock-led investment coalition would take control of two key ports on either end of the Panama Canal for the ...

to buy a controlling stake in the company held by a Chinese group that operates ports at both ends of the Panama Canal. Panama maintains that it has full control over the canal and that the Hong ...

The Hong Kong-based conglomerate that operates ports near the Panama Canal has agreed to sell shares of its units that operate the ports to a consortium including BlackRock Inc., after President ...

CK Hutchison Holdings Ltd, a Hong Kong-based conglomerate, will be selling its majority of stakes in ports across both sides of the Panama Canal to a consortium of investors, which includes BlackRock ...

President Trump announced that Secretary of State Marco Rubio will oversee efforts to regain U.S. control of the Panama Canal. While praising Rubio as "amazing," Trump also joked that he would be ...