Often called one of the seven modern wonders of the world, the Panama Canal splits the continents of North and South America ...

In his inaugural speech, President Donald Trump repeated his plan to regain control of the Panama Canal. Can he?

The Panama Canal is an artificial waterway in Panama ... at each end to lift ships up to a freshwater lake 85 feet above sea level and then lower them again at the other end.

More than 100 years after the construction of the engineering marvel that linked the Atlantic and Pacific oceans — and 25 ...

President Trump’s push to take back control of the strategic waterway stokes memories of a period of U.S. imperial ambition ...

and bring them down again to sea level. Vessels are charged for the crossing based on their size. The United States — followed by China and Japan — is the Panama Canal's main client ...

Born from “gunboat diplomacy,” the Panama Canal is under threat ... to be the perfect spot for a trans-oceanic canal that would shorten the sea voyage by thousands of miles.

With their loose talk about Greenland, Canada, and the Panama Canal, Trump and his followers show they don’t get what we get ...