Nanda Pethiyagoda While the USA is respectfully giving its 39th President a state funeral in Washington DC and a final internment in Plains, Georgia, President-elect Donald Trump is threateningly ...

Thursday concluded six days of national rites that began in Plains, where Carter, a former Naval officer, engineer and peanut farmer, was born in 1924, lived most of his life and died after 22 months ...

The nation paused to honor the Democrat for his service as a naval officer, governor and president, and his four decades of ...

Carter’s legacy shaped once he leftthe Oval Office Photograph by photographer Karl Schumacher, 1977.From the Presidential ...

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Follow live coverage of the state funeral of the 39th US president Jimmy Carter in Washington following his death at the age ...

Carter's funeral showed CNN's John King the value of history and context. How Fox News, MSNBC and ABC reacted to the last ...

The service also included the reading of a eulogy written by former President Gerald Ford, whom Carter defeated in the 1976 .

Gerald Ford’s son Steve Ford read his father's eulogy for Jimmy Carter at Thursday's funeral service, drawing a few smiles, ...

The five living presidents are making a rare simultaneous appearance Thursday at former President Jimmy Carter’s funeral.

It is unusual for five current and former presidents to gather at the same event, but when it happens, it is often at a ...

In a way, former President Gerald Ford was ... noted that Carter spent years as a proud Washington outsider and skipped the ...