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How a Stuffed Animal Named Billy Possum Tried—and Failed—to Replace the Teddy Bear as America’s National Toy
In 1909, wealthy widow Susie W. Allgood marketed a plush marsupial inspired by President William Howard Taft. But children ...
Protesters gather at William Howard Taft National Historic Site to protest DOGE federal workforce cuts
Protests occurred at the William Howard Taft National Historic Site over the weekend. The protests come as part of a larger coordinated national protest that was seen on Saturday over the firing of ...
The Gilded Age Is Back — And That Should Worry Conservatives
The Gilded Age was the era in the late 19th century when business and industry dominated American life as never before or ...
New Republic6dOpinion
The Law’s Trump-Size Hole Is Suddenly Exposed
The judicial system has started to rule against the administration’s decimation of the civil service. If only it could ...
The Knoxville Focus7d
The Fall of Congressman John Jennings, III
By Ray Hill John Jennings had represented Tennessee’s Second Congressional District since 1940 and as 1950 dawned, the ...
FIRSTonline8d
Trump and the issue of the third term: if 8 years as US president seems too few to him
Trump, his second US presidency and the issue of the third term: the tycoon may not accept the constitutional limit and try to stay in the White House for more than 8 years, transforming the election ...
Trump removes 150-year-old Resolute Desk from the Oval Office to be 'lightly refinished'
President Donald Trump temporarily removes the 150-year-old Resolute Desk from the Oval Office to be refinished.
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Charleston has welcomed many sitting U.S. presidents through the years. Here’s a look back at some of those visits
Though Charleston sits more than 500 miles from the political epicenter of Washington, D.C., it is no stranger to the ...
I asked ChatGPT, DeepSeek and other AI chatbots for 25 unusual facts about U.S. presidents for Presidents' Day
ChatGPT shared the following facts: 1. James Garfield's ambidextrous ability to write Greek with one hand and Latin with the ...
New Jersey Globe14d
Grover Cleveland won New Jersey three times
The only president born in New Jersey was Grover Cleveland, whose bid for the White House came after he had been elected mayor of Buffalo and governor of ...
Fox News15d
McConnell's mental acuity targeted by Trump after ex-Senate leader joins Dems against Cabinet nominees
"I think he knows better than anybody how hard it is to lead a place like the United States Senate, where it takes 60 votes to get most things done, and that you got to have everybody, sort of ...