This treaty granted the U.S. control over the Canal Zone ... Panama (which happened in 1999, during Bill Clinton’s presidency) faced intense criticism from their GOP opponents. Incumbents Frank ...

“As president, I want to express clearly that every square meter of the Panama Canal and its adjacent zone belongs to Panama ... people at Mother Emanuel Church in Charleston in 2015, Robert ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the ...

Taking back the Panama Canal would enable him to charge exorbitant fees for retail traffic through the canal zone (so he could ... who was behind the Charleston church shooting in 2015, were ...

A Panamanian national holiday remembering the killing of 21 protesters by police and U.S. troops in 1964 is taking on new ...

On Jan. 9, 1964, students protested in the then-U.S. controlled canal zone over not being allowed to fly Panama’s flag at a secondary school there. The protests expanded to general opposition to ...

and for decades afterward in the U.S.-administered Panama Canal Zone, a stretch of land 5 miles on either side of the 50-mile canal governed as sovereign U.S. territory. “Gold dollars for the ...

In the 1970s, a conservative coalition came together to fight ceding control of the Panama Canal—proving the political ...