This weekend, however, the focus was on celebrating the canal’s new era. The U.S. Embassy in Panama moved its annual Independence Day celebration up a week to join the festivities.

Following Trump's remarks on Greenland and the Panama Canal, ... Newsweek. Map Shows What US Would Look Like if Trump Buys ...

Inset: Representative Dusty Johnson heads into a meeting in Washington, D.C., on December 20. Main: A close-up of the Panama Canal on Google Maps.

On Dec. 21, 2024, U.S. President-elect Donald Trump called for the return of the Panama Canal to the United States on Truth Social, the social media platform he owns. In one post, which had ...

As part of the canal’s recent expansion, Panama added a new lane at each entrance, with new locks that can raise and lower today’s king-size cargo ships. Naturally, the new locks are bigger ...

In her new novel, “The Great Divide,” Cristina Henríquez tells the story of the forgotten lives behind the construction of the engineering marvel that cut a path between continents.

Panama Canal officials say a new reservoir needed to meet the growing water demands of the heavily trafficked waterway would take six years to construct at an estimated cost of $1.6 billion. In a ...