President-elect Donald Trump has a "Swiss Army knife" who top Trump advisers say is now "the most powerful unelected man in the White House," according to a report. Far-right adviser Stephen ...

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In the late 1800s, a Swiss man named Karl Elsner decided to experiment ... American soldiers in World War II were responsible for the name Swiss Army Knife, as the original term, "Schweizer ...

All able-bodied Swiss men aged 20-30 are conscripted for about three months and issued with a rifle. After initial training, they are required to do three or four weeks of army service a year ...

So, the Swiss Army began workshopping a design that combined all the tools a soldier would need into one compact multi-tool. In 1884, a young man named Karl Elsener -- backed by his mother ...