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 ...

President Donald Trump has made repeated claims that China “operates” the Panama Canal in recent weeks and has threatened to ...

The aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman remains in the eastern Mediterranean Sea as its crew assesses damage from a ...

In recent years the operation of the Panama Canal has been increasingly affected by changes in rainfall, and some data ...

Dozens of countries have already been directly affected by Trump’s threats of tariffs and the withdrawal of US aid since he ...

Rarely do Panamanians unite on political topics, but threats to the ownership of the canal go to the heart of national ...

President Donald Trump’s promise—and subsequent executive order—to rename the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America displayed ...

Although Danish Foreign Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen and Greenland's Prime Minister Mute Egede reacted to Trump with the ...

The Panama Canal Authority put out its own terse statement saying it had “not made any adjustments” to the fees.

Panamanian President José Raúl Mulino on Thursday rejected U.S. claims that American warships and boats can transit the ...

CANADA becomes the 51st state of the US. Then America retakes control of the Panama Canal. The United States also purchases the icy island of Greenland which would become an American territory. Read ...

Back in Nuuk, Lynge turns to the map once more to reflect on how Greenland became caught up in a much bigger game. He refers to the 1946 attempt by the US to buy Greenland from Denmark, under which ...