"We need Greenland for national security purposes," President-elect Trump said during a Tuesday press conference focused on ...

What is the Panama Canal and why would Trump want it? About 40% of U.S. container shipping currently travels through the Panama Canal, according to the trade publication CargoNOW.

“We need them for economic security,” Trump said at a news conference at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida. “The Panama Canal is vital to our country,” he said at one point.

President Trump says the U.S. needs control of Greenland and the Panama Canal "for national security." Here's why both places are so important.

Trump says he cannot rule out the use of military force in his quest for U.S. control of Greenland and the Panama Canal. Trump says both locations are important to the national and economic ...

The predictable Beltway reaction to President-elect Donald Trump’s statements regarding potential U.S. control of both Greenland and the Panama Canal ranged from outrage to horror.

President Trump says he wants to buy Greenland and reclaim the Panama Canal. NPR's Juana Summers and Ari Shapiro compare their recent reporting from both locations.

Trump again having designs on Greenland comes after the president-elect suggested over the weekend that the U.S. could retake control of the Panama Canal if something isn’t done to ease rising ...

That is when, given the chance, the Chinese would step in, but not if the Canal Zone once again was U.S. territory. Canada, Greenland and the Panama Canal all fit together rather snugly in this ...

“He said it’s our canal, we paid for it and Carter got rid of it,” Kupperman said. “So it was a political statement in 1980, and I think Trump's trying to resurrect the feelings that existed when the ...

President Trump says he wants to buy Greenland and reclaim the Panama Canal. NPR's Juana Summers and Ari Shapiro compare their recent reporting from both locations.