Donald Trump cast himself both as a peacemaker and fierce defender of US interests in a mercurial return to the White House on Monday, vowing to seize the Panama Canal but also imploring Russia to make a deal on Ukraine.

“There is no presence of any nation in the world that ... research organization in Washington. The United States began building the canal in 1904, the year after Panama gained independence ...

The visit to Panama comes as President Donald Trump has railed against the South American country for weeks, calling for the United States to reclaim the Panama Canal. He suggested in his ...

roughly 4 percent of the world’s maritime trade and more than 40 percent of US container traffic traverse the 51-mile route across the Isthmus of Panama. The canal has defined Quijano’s adult ...

US President Donald Trump has vowed to "take back" the Panama ... The canal, which was completed in August 1914, is one of the two most strategic artificial waterways in the world — the other ...

The president who built his fan base on isolationism is pivoting to a kind of imperialism that the U.S. hasn’t seen in decades.

Panama has owned and administered the Panama Canal for nearly three decades. President Trump wants to change that to counter growing Chinese influence in Latin America.

They say they fought too hard to wrest it from the U.S. to now hand back the waterway, which is part of the nation’s identity.

A military operation against a tiny neighbor would destroy US credibility in Latin America and provide a boost for China and Russia. Plus, the Panamanians would likely put up a good fight.

Often called one of the seven modern wonders of the world, the Panama Canal splits the continents of North and South America and launched a new era in global commerce when it opened in 1914.

Is Donald Trump a great president? That’s the question posed by John F. Harris in Politico, less in the spirit of endorsing Trump than suggesting that he is nothing less than “the greatest figure of his age.

Panama has complained to the United Nations over President Donald Trump's "worrying" threat to seize the Panama Canal. | TAG24