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 move against a half-dozen organizations followed an executive order from President Trump that said the United States ...

Panama is in danger of becoming a case study of how an American hard-power win could become a soft-power loss. America did ...

The United States is threatening to take over the Panama Canal at a time when Panama is struggling to address growing ...

President Donald Trump followed through on his promise to rename the Gulf of Mexico the "Gulf of America."Trump issued an ...

US users of Google and Apple maps will now see Trump’s preferred name for the body of water that the country shares with ...

People in Mexico will still see the name Gulf of Mexico, with international users seeing both names, Google said. The change ...

The White House blocked an Associated Press reporter from an Oval Office event after demanding the news agency change its ...

Google Maps now labels the Gulf of America for U.S. users, and the Gulf of Mexico for those in Mexico. This isn't the first ...

The U.S. has officially renamed the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. The question, though, is whether this is important ...

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