Secretary of State Marco Rubio is on his first foreign trip in office, arriving in Central America on Saturday to press ...

And he also set his sights on retaking control of the Panama Canal, which was sold to Panama by President Jimmy Carter. Trump ...

For decades, Trump has railed against Jimmy Carter’s decision to give the canal to Panama.

The Trump administration is taking proactive measures to regain control over the Panama Canal and reduce Chinese influence at ...

Panama has denied the U.S. State Department's claim that the country will eliminate fees for U.S. government vessels transiting the Panama Canal.

The canal’s two biggest ports are operated by a Hong Kong company with global reach. The Trump administration sees a Chinese ...

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 canal was built over several decades by the U.S. and completed in 1914 but handed over to Panama during the Carter administration. Trump has made regaining ownership of the Panama Canal a ...

Trump has continued his calls for retaking the Panama Canal, one of his priorities in his first days in office. He criticized the Carter administration for selling the U.S.-built canal to Panama ...

President Donald Trump has made a “preliminary determination” that Chinese influence violates a treaty that assures the neutrality of the Panama Canal ... President Jimmy Carter in the ...

By the 1960s, though, with anti-imperialist sentiment ascendent, Panama wanted its land back. In 1977, US president Jimmy Carter signed a treaty to hand over control of the canal and the Zone ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State Marco Rubio embarks this weekend on his first foreign trip in office, heading to Central America to press President Donald Trump's top priority — curbing illegal ...