US President Donald Trump took a fresh shot at his predecessor Barack Obama and suggested the US Civil War could have been avoided, in a series of media interviews broadcast Monday. Trump told the Sirius XM POTUS radio channel that his president hero, the “swashbuckler” Andrew Jackson, could have avoided the Civil War had he … Read more
President Donald Trump’s enthusiasm for his 19th century predecessor Andrew Jackson is stoking fears he may cancel plans to replace that controversial president on the $20 bill with abolitionist Harriet Tubman. The Treasury Department announced a year ago that by 2020 it would remove slave-owner Jackson’s likeness in favor of an image of Tubman, an … Read more
Donald Trump hailed America’s first populist president Wednesday, laying a wreath at the tomb of Andrew Jackson and waxing lyrical about the similarities between himself and the seventh US president. On the 250th anniversary of Jackson’s birth, Trump visited ‘Old Hickory’s’ Tennessee home, dubbed The Hermitage. Praising ‘the very great’ Jackson’s willingness to take on … Read more
Donald Trump hailed America’s first populist president Wednesday, laying a wreath at the tomb of Andrew Jackson and waxing lyrical about the similarities between himself and the seventh US president. On the 250th anniversary of Jackson’s birth, Trump visited “Old Hickory’s” Tennessee home, dubbed The Hermitage. Praising “the very great” Jackson’s willingness to take on … Read more
Peaceful presidential transitions are difficult to execute, particularly when they involve a defeated incumbent. As usual, the Americans have the most documentation of transitions. While, for the most part, they have gone well, there have been memorable hiccups. In 1800, after the bitterly contested election between Adams and Jefferson, President Adams made some midnight appointments, … Read more
An implant that beams instructions out of the brain has been used to restore movement in paralysed primates for the first time, say scientists. Rhesus monkeys were paralysed in one leg due to a damaged spinal cord. The team at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology bypassed the injury by sending the instructions straight from … Read more
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton finds herself on the wrong end of an electoral split, moving ahead in the popular vote but losing to President-elect Donald Trump in the Electoral College, according to the latest numbers emerging Wednesday. As of 11:55 a.m. ET, Clinton had amassed 59,458,295 votes nationally, to Trump’s 59,265,380 — a margin … Read more
A newly elected senator has used his first speech to call for Australia to take inspiration from the UK’s Brexit and leave the United Nations. Senator Malcolm Roberts was elected by Queensland as a member of the anti-immigration One Nation party. He believes climate change is a global conspiracy created by bankers seeking to establish … Read more