Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Getty Images In December 2024, U.S. President-elect Donald Trump began repeatedly calling for the return of the Panama Canal to ...

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 ...

The Erie Canal Museum is commemorating the final year of the Erie Canal Bicentennial in 2025 and has an exciting year of programming on the horizon to explore the last 200 years of Erie Canal history ...

Artists share unique photographic perspectives on the Erie Canal’s history and legacy. Three artists-in-residence use photography to explore the Erie Canal’s bicentennial, connecting past and present ...

PANAMA CITY, Panama—A Chinese cultural center on the outskirts of Panama City was busy with people coming and going on a Wednesday afternoon in March, a reminder of China’s long history in the region.

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Fifteen historic locks and decades of canal history drew visitors across Wayne County earlier this month, according to the ...

The successful completion of the Panama Canal on April 1, 1914, stands as one of the most significant moments in the development of the West Coast shipping industry, and, in particular, the ...

One woman’s lifelong connection to the Erie Canal, told from her home beside the lock. Step inside a personal canal-side museum in Lyons, NY, where one woman shares her vivid memories of growing up ...

The Erie Canal, completed in 1825, reshaped New York and the nation by connecting the Atlantic Ocean to the Great Lakes, slashing transport costs and time. It sparked economic growth, fueled social ...

The controversy also provoked the predictable bevy of corporate media commentary criticizing Trump: Pundits explained, as if uninformed Americans thought otherwise, that he cannot simply “take it back ...