A team from NPR's All Things Considered went to Panama to report on the canal there, which has gained attention in recent months due to President Trump's comments about the U.S. taking control of it.

In this episode of Need to Know, host John Milewski speaks with Benjamin Gedan, Director of the Wilson Center's Latin America Program, about the geopolitical and economic significance of the Panama ...

A recent drought in Panama was so severe that the canal had to reduce traffic. How is climate change impacting Panama -- and ...

With few options and time running out, a deal may prove to be Panama's best defense. The cost of occupying the canal may make ...

Meanwhile, Gustave Eiffel (of tower fame) was deployed to design a lock system – by which gravity fills or drains a water chamber ... to say the least. In Panama City in January, marchers ...

PANAMA CITY — Marco Rubio’s weekend visit to Panama is set to offer clues to a pressing question: whether the next four years of American policy will more closely resemble an imperial conquest ...

in Panama City on Dec. 31. (Aris Martinez/Reuters) The issue is expected to resurface as Secretary of State Marco Rubio visits Panama this weekend on his first international trip in his new role.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio arrived in Panama on Saturday with a lofty assignment: Retake the Panama Canal, the U.S.-built waterway that President Donald Trump laments should have never been ...

Panama President José Raúl Mulino rejected negotiations over ownership of the Panama Canal, in the face of President Trump’s fixation on the U.S. retaking the trade waterway. “It’s ...

However, the canal's fee structure is based on reservations by type of vessel and size, combined with auctions for ships arriving without reservations and a variable water surcharge. Military ...

EXCLUSIVE: House Republican leadership is encouraging lawmakers to back up President Donald Trump's desire to return the Panama Canal to U.S. ownership, a new memo suggests. The House GOP Policy ...