Discover the history of the Panama Canal. Learn from when the construction began, how this waterway connects the Atlantic and Pacific, and its importance for global trade.

Panama promotes itself “as the bridge of the world, heart of the universe” but lately the narrow Central American Isthmus and its namesake canal that joins the Atlantic to the Pacific have become the setting for a bitter clash between the world’s two ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Panama Canal has been turned into a political hot rod - Victor Raison Huddled together on a dirt bank outside a building site on the edge of the Panama Canal, the men shout fervidly ...

And I'm Ari Shapiro at a small village in Panama called Limon de Chagres. (SOUNDBITE OF RUNNING WATER) SHAPIRO: We're standing at the edge of this beautiful river. I can see little fish swimming just under the surface. There's a small hand-carved wooden ...

I transited the Panama Canal and discovered how Theodore Roosevelt's impossible dream became reality through determination and perseverance

PANAMA CITY — U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Tuesday the Panama Canal faces ongoing threats from China but that together the United States and Panama will keep it secure. Hegseth's remarks triggered a fiery response from the Chinese government ...

PANAMA CITY — A black, massive Hong Kong-registered ship inched its way through the churning waters of the Panama Canal — guided by tugboats stern and aft, and sweating Panamanians hoisting yellow ropes to latch onto the ship’s higher levels.