U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz

Senate debates ways to gain leverage over Panama Canal

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump vowed to “take back” the Panama Canal in his inaugural address, but he likely wouldn’t be able to do so and still be within the confines of the 1977 treaty that signed over authority to Panama, according to an international law expert.

Testifying before the Senate Commerce Committee on Tuesday, Eugene Kontorovich, a senior research fellow at the conservative Heritage Foundation, told lawmakers that countries “need to think long and hard” before signing...

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People’s Convoy says it has funds to last 1 more week

The founder of the fundraising arm of the People’s Convoy says trucking organizers may “wrap up the federal convoy this week” amid dwindling donations to protest government mandates regarding COVID-19 and other political issues.

It’s been 19 days since a group of truckers — along with a caravan of mainly right-leaning supporters packed in RVs, pickup trucks and motorcycles — converged upon a dirt-track speedway in Hagerstown, Maryland, to slow roll and loop around the Washington, D.C. Beltway. 

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