Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is slated to meet with Panama leaders next week amid President Donald Trump's continued efforts to regain control of the key strategic and military resource.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth will travel to Panama next week, as President Donald Trump says America is “reclaiming” the country’s eponymous canal. (Kevin Wolf/AP) Defense Secretary Pete ...

President Donald Trump has complained about the U.S. relinquishing control of the waterway to Panama more than 20 years ago and has threatened to retake it, arguing that the U.S. was being ...