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Jimmy Carter is now 98 years old as he receives hospice care.

The Carter Center is sharing the news that former first lady Rosalynn Carter has dementia.

An American soldier awarded the Medal of Honor after he went missing in battle during the Korean War is being buried on Memorial Day near his hometown in Georgia.

Jimmy Carter's grandson says the former president remains in good spirits three months after entering end-of-life care at home.

No president wants to give up the power and prestige that comes with the office after only one term, and Joe Biden is no exception.

As Jimmy Carter rests in hospice care at his home in Georgia, The Associated Press reached out to former political prisoners who credit him with saving their lives.

Former New Mexico Gov. Jerry Apodaca, who reorganized the state’s government into a cabinet-based system in the mid-1970s, has died.

Jimmy Carter’s Baptist faith was one of his calling cards in the 1976 presidential campaign.

President Joe Biden says he plans to deliver the eulogy at the funeral of former President Jimmy Carter, who remains under hospice care at his home in south Georgia.

When Jimmy Carter stepped onto the national stage, he brought along those closest to him, introducing Americans to a colorful Georgia family that helped shape the 39th president’s public life and now, generations later, is rallying around him for the private final chapter of his 98 years.

As 2024's campaign season begins, politicians are looking in the mirror and deciding whether they see an American president staring back.

Jimmy Carter’s path to the presidency is an oft-told story, especially by aspiring presidents trying to be the next politician to defy Washington expectations.

Former President Jimmy Carter is garnering accolades and well-wishes across the world since the announcement that the 98-year-old is receiving end-of-life care at home in Georgia.

Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter has entered home hospice care after a series of short hospital stays.

Well-wishes and fond remembrances for former President Jimmy Carter were pouring in a day after he entered hospice care at his home in Georgia.

Hundreds of people participated in the American Lung Association in Florida’s Fight For Air Climb at City National Bank Building in Orlando on Saturday, organizers said.

A Polk County deputy faces DUI charges after being involved in a single-vehicle crash in Bartow, according to a news release.

More than 25,000 cases of Starbucks Vanilla Frappuccino bottles have been recalled because the drinks may contain glass, according to the Food and Drug Administration.

A woman in Marion County faces charges after deputies said she admitted to abandoning several puppies near an animal shelter, according to the Marion County Sheriff’s Office.

The Carter Center says former President Jimmy Carter has entered home hospice care.

Dramas over the mishandling of classified documents at a high level of the U.S. government aren't all new.

The mishandling of classified documents is not a problem unique to President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump.

The Carter Center said Tuesday that only 13 human cases of Guinea worm disease were reported worldwide last year.

Donald Trump pledged to fix U.S. infrastructure as president.

One would have to go back hundreds of years to find a monarch who reigned longer than Queen Elizabeth II.

The Iowa caucuses and their outsize importance have largely been an exercise in myth-making.

The Carter Center is training nonpartisan observers to monitor midterm elections in Fulton County, Georgia.

Iran is marking the 1979 takeover of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran as its theocracy faces nationwide protests after the death of a 22-year-old woman earlier arrested by the country’s morality police.

Presidential aspirants running for reelection while dreaming of the highest office in the land often face an uncomfortable question: Will they commit to serving a full term — should they win one — when their best moment to take a shot at the White House may come sooner than that.

Presidents come and go, but White House grounds superintendent Dale Haney has been a constant through the past 10 presidencies.

A U.S. attorney general during President Jimmy Carter’s administration, Benjamin R.

Jimmy Carter, already the longest-living U.S. president in history, turned 98 on Saturday.

French President Emmanuel Macron has turned his attention from Great Britain's new head of state to the new head of government on Saturday evening.

Former President Barack Obama told the Harvard men’s basketball team that the sport taught him “it wasn’t just about me.”.

Across the globe, the death of Queen Elizabeth II has prompted reflections on the historic sweep of her reign, from presiding over Britain’s colonial empire to embracing the independence of her former dominions.

She went horseback riding with Ronald Reagan.

Moon Landrieu, the patriarch of a Louisiana political family who was a lonely voice for civil rights until the tide turned in the 1960s, has died.

It’s been more than a decade since President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, welcomed back George W.

Rosalynn Carter turns 95 Thursday, and her birthday is being marked with butterflies.

Climate activists are pressuring President Joe Biden to declare a national climate emergency, something the White House hasn't done yet.

David McCullough, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author whose lovingly crafted narratives on subjects ranging from the Brooklyn Bridge to Presidents John Adams and Harry Truman made him among the most popular and influential historians of his time, has died.

Democrats are poised to boot Iowa from its traditional lead-off spot in the presidential nominating calendar in 2024.

Barack Obama’s presidential portrait will be unveiled at the White House in a September ceremony hosted by his former No. 2, President Joe Biden.

President Joe Biden’s dash through Israel and the occupied West Bank this week is expected to cut across some of the region’s most iconic places.

When Joe Biden was running for president, he wasn't shy about calling out dictators and authoritarian leaders.

President Joe Biden and three former presidents have paid tribute to late Veterans Administration chief and U.S. senator Max Cleland, who lost limbs while serving in Vietnam.

President Joe Biden said Monday that the United States has a “commitment” to help Taiwan militarily if China invades.

President Joe Biden has saluted his “friend of five decades” Walter Mondale, traveling to the University of Minnesota to remember the former vice president and Democratic Party elder whose memorial service was delayed for a year due to the pandemic.

President Joe Biden took the White House press corps' annual gala as an opportunity to make light of the criticism he has faced in his 15 months in office.

President Joe Biden plans to speak at a memorial service on Sunday for former Vice President Walter Mondale, who died last April at age 93.

Native American tribes in Maine gave up some of their rights to the state when they settled their land claims more than 40 years ago.

In the lead-up to his 90th birthday, civil rights icon Andrew Young delivered a sermon that lamented the war in Ukraine and “rancor” in the world.

In good times or bad, American presidents come to Congress with a diagnosis that hardly differs over the decades.

For one 11-year-old American boy, Richard Nixon's trip to China changed almost everything.

President Joe Biden's administration has refused to share evidence for national security claims in recent days, and officials have even accused reporters of buying into foreign propaganda.

The number of people infected with Guinea worm dropped to just over a dozen worldwide last year as health workers try to eradicate the disease.

As America’s first second gentleman, Doug Emhoff has visited 31 states to promote Biden administration policies and the coronavirus vaccine.

Lani Guinier, a civil rights lawyer and scholar whose nomination by President Bill Clinton to head the Justice Department’s civil rights division was pulled after conservatives criticized her views on correcting racial discrimination, has died.

Sarah Weddington is being remembered this week as a champion of feminism whose work impacted the nation’s politics as views shifted on abortion.

Sarah Weddington, a Texas lawyer who at 26-year-old successfully argued the landmark abortion rights case Roe v.

Bob Dole's political career began in 1950 with election to the Kansas Legislature.

As mayor of New Orleans, Mitch Landrieu oversaw billions of dollars in infrastructure repairs and improvements when he took over a lagging recovery from Hurricane Katrina in 2010.

Thousands of Iranians have gathered on the streets of Tehran for the anniversary of the 1979 seizure of the U.S. Embassy.

When President Joe Biden meets with Pope Francis on Friday, he won’t kiss the ring.

The oldest former U.S. president ever, Jimmy Carter, plans to quietly mark his 97th birthday at home in Georgia on Friday.

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Jimmy Carter is sometimes called a better former president than he was president.

President Joe Biden has nominated Mark Brzezinski to serve as his ambassador to Poland.

Former President Jimmy Carter and his wife Rosalynn have celebrated their 75th wedding anniversary in their hometown of Plains, Georgia.

The Biden economy faces the unusual problem of possibly being too strong for its own good.

Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter are celebrating their 75th wedding anniversary on July 7, extending their record as the longest married presidential couple in American history.

Mike Gravel, a former U.S. senator from Alaska who read the Pentagon Papers into the Congressional Record and later ran for president twice, has died.

The wife of a Democratic political strategist from Colorado is among those missing in the condo building that partially collapsed outside Miami.

Joe Biden is now the 13th American president to meet Queen Elizabeth II.

In his quest for a second term as Virginia governor, Terry McAuliffe is heading into next week's five-way Democratic primary with an undeniable lead in public polling, name recognition, endorsements and money.

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The immunologist who leads the COVID-19 response in the United States says “the undeniable effects of racism” have led to unacceptable health disparities.

Thousands of social media posts have misleadingly painted President Joe Biden and his administration as catalysts of chaos who not only mishandled the temporary shutdown of the nation’s largest fuel pipeline last Friday, but engineered it.

The Biden administration swung aggressively into action after a primary gasoline pipeline fell prey to a cyberattack.

President Joe Biden has warned gasoline stations not to engage in price gouging as motorists wait for fuel to start flowing reliably through the Colonial Pipeline.

The first Black man to serve on the Florida Supreme court has died.

President Joe Biden has visited former President Jimmy Carter in Plains, Georgia, where the 96-year-old and his wife, Rosalynn, have lived most of their lives.

The White House says President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden will visit the 39th president, Jimmy Carter, and his wife, Rosalynn, while in Georgia this week.

Many Americans may remember Walter Mondale for his near-shutout defeat for the White House in 1984.

Former Vice President Walter Mondale, a liberal icon who lost one of the most lopsided presidential elections after bluntly telling voters to expect a tax increase if he won, has died.

Some longtime Republican voters are validating Joe Biden's early approach to the presidency.

Alcee Hastings is dead after a battle with pancreatic cancer.

Rep. Alcee Hastings, the fiercely liberal longtime Florida congressman who was dogged throughout his tenure by an impeachment that ended his fast-rising judicial career, has died at 84.

That's likely to be the case for Vice President Kamala Harris, who this week was named the new point person on immigration. This is definitely not a ceremonial task,” said Nina Rees, a former deputy assistant for domestic policy to Vice President Dick Cheney. Harris' team has clarified that the vice president does not own all of immigration policy. Kamarck's argument bucks the traditional wisdom, which says if a vice president does well on thorny issues, more credit goes to the president and, if not, it gives the president some political cover. The matter of who gets praise, or blame, is even trickier when it's clear the vice president has White House aspirations.

Laura Biggs, a 56-year-old who has already recovered from the virus, is wary of taking the vaccine. “The way I feel about it is: I don’t need the vaccine at this point," she said. She said partisan differences were obvious among her friends and family in all aspects of the pandemic, including vaccine acceptance. I don’t think it is the way God intended for us to be,” said Holloway. “The people who voted for Trump and don’t want to take the vaccine are committed in their opposition.

Laura Biggs, a 56-year-old who has already recovered from the virus, is wary of taking the vaccine. “The way I feel about it is: I don’t need the vaccine at this point," she said. She said partisan differences were obvious among her friends and family in all aspects of the pandemic, including vaccine acceptance. I don’t think it is the way God intended for us to be,” said Holloway. “The people who voted for Trump and don’t want to take the vaccine are committed in their opposition.

Fauci said Sunday, March 14, he wishes former President Donald Trump would use his popularity among Republicans to persuade his followers to get the COVID-19 vaccine. In a round of interviews on the morning news shows, Fauci lamented polling showing that Trump supporters are more likely to refuse to get vaccinated, saying politics needs to be separated from commonsense, no-brainer public health measures. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)Dr. Anthony Fauci said Sunday he wishes former President Donald Trump would use his popularity among Republicans to persuade more of his followers to get the COVID-19 vaccine. Fauci said it would be a “game changer” for the country’s vaccine efforts if the former president used his “incredible influence” among Republicans. Trump did not appear in a new public service campaign for the COVID-19 vaccine that included former Presidents Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama.

FILE - In this July 1, 2014 file photo, Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr., is interviewed on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. who sees the Trump case through. “I never imagined myself as District Attorney for decades like my predecessors. The Trump case will likely be an early test for the next district attorney. Vance's office reopened the Hadden case amid public outcry last year, and the doctor was indicted on federal charges.

(AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)WASHINGTON – Four former presidents are urging Americans to get vaccinated as soon as COVID-19 doses are available to them, as part of a campaign to overcome hesitancy about the shots. Two public service announcements from the Ad Council and the business-supported COVID Collaborative feature Presidents Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter as well as first ladies Michelle Obama, Laura Bush, Hillary Clinton, and Rosalynn Carter. In a 60-second spot, the former presidents say what they're most looking forward to once the pandemic ends. It features Bush, Obama and Clinton encouraging vaccinations. The “It's Up to You” campaign encourages Americans to visit www.GetVaccineAnswers.org to get the facts about the vaccines.

That slice of the electorate tilted solidly to Biden but still included many Republican voters. He has said he wants to add a voter identification requirement to absentee voting, replacing the existing signature match requirement used to verify voters' identities. AdFor example, in Georgia, no-excuse absentee voting was enacted under a 2005 law adopted by a Republican-controlled Assembly. Carter focused his criticisms mostly squarely on the proposal to roll back absentee voting. He has repeatedly called the U.S. an “oligarchy,” and in 2020, the Carter Center for the first time designated the United States as a “backsliding” democracy.

President Joe Biden's motorcade departs the Watergate complex after Biden made a stop to visit with former Sen. Bob Dole, Saturday, Feb. 20, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)WASHINGTON – President Joe Biden paid a visit Saturday to former Sen. Bob Dole, days after the World War II veteran and 1996 Republican presidential nominee announced he'd been diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer. Biden, who served in the Senate with Dole for more than two decades, arrived Saturday afternoon at the Watergate complex where Dole, 97, and his wife, Elizabeth, have maintained a longtime residence. “He’s doing well,” Biden said of Dole, after departing Holy Trinity Catholic Church later Saturday evening. Dole had unsuccessfully sought the GOP nomination in 1980 and 1988, and he was President Gerald Ford’s vice presidential running mate in 1976, when Ford lost to Democrat Jimmy Carter.

FILE - In this July 18, 2016 file photo, political icon and 1996 Republican presidential nominee Sen. Bob Dole is seen at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland. Dole says he has been diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistribuTOPEKA, Kan. – Bob Dole, a former longtime senator and the 1996 Republican presidential nominee, announced Thursday that he has been diagnosed with Stage 4 lung cancer. Kansas Sen. Jerry Moran, a Republican who holds the seat Dole once did, expressed sadness at the cancer diagnosis and offered his prayers. He remained the Republicans' longest-serving Senate leader, at nearly 11 1/2 years, until current Minority Leader Mitch McConnell broke the record in 2018.

FILE - In this July 1981 file photo released by The White House, U.S. President Ronald Reagan, left, and Vice President George Bush go horseback riding at Camp David, Md. He capped it off by beating one of his granddaughters at Mario Kart during his first presidential visit to Camp David, the historic retreat for U.S. leaders. That’s what Camp David has traditionally offered presidents: a respite from Washington where they can shed their ties and relax with family. AdBill Clinton tried to replicate that diplomatic alchemy when he invited Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat to Camp David for Mideast peace talks in 2000. He said when foreign leaders descend on Camp David, it can be like an “adult sleepover.”Ad“Going to camp in the cabins creates an atmosphere where leaders are very close together.

President Joe Biden is flooding the zone with them, achieving head-snapping changes in national policy that he would have no hope of getting from Congress quickly, if at all. As President Donald Trump discovered with his hard-charging and often ill-fated executive actions, courts can be quick to shoot them down. Altogether, Biden has brought a transformation both in tone and substance in the earliest days of his presidency. Trump's first executive order, on the day of his inauguration, was directed squarely at unraveling the Affordable Care Act. Biden had an executive order on that matter, too.

A Badger and Shield statue is seen outside the governor's Capitol office in Madison, Wis., Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2021. Naval Academy wants the state of Wisconsin to return the statue. (AP Photo/Todd Richmond)MADISON, Wis. – The Wisconsin badger statue that has served as a literal touchstone for so many Capitol building visitors that they've rubbed the finish off his nose could be headed to another den soon. It was affixed to the USS Wisconsin battleship before World War I. He also noted that the academy museum had to return former President Jimmy Carter's plebe uniform to his museum in 2019.