The Panama Canal was a mammoth construction project that took a decade to complete and cost about $375 million — the equivalent of $11.8 billion today.

In December 2024, U.S. President-elect Donald Trump began repeatedly calling for the return of the Panama Canal to the United States. In a Dec. 21, 2024 post on his social media platform Truth Social, ...

In his first speech as America's 47th president on Jan. 20, 2025, Donald Trump called for the U.S. to gain control of the Panama Canal, stating, "We're taking it back." Without evidence to support his ...

In 1903 the young country of Panama signed a treaty with the United States allowing the construction and control of the Panama Canal Zone. The treaty placed the Panamanians at a disadvantage resulting ...

Though seemingly unintentional, President Donald Trump’s comments on the Panama Canal just happened to coincide almost ...

The history of the Panama Canal will be discussed Sunday, March 2, at the Penn State Altoona Edith Adams Eve Memorial Chapel. The public is welcome to attend the event, hosted by The Unitarian ...

Virginia Allen is a senior news producer for The Daily Signal and host of "The Daily Signal Podcast" and "Problematic Women." Send an email to Virginia. PANAMA CITY, Panama—A Chinese cultural center ...

Since returning to office, President Trump has made repeated claims that China operates the Panama Canal and threatened to take it back from the Panama Canal Authority, which has controlled it since ...