WASHINGTON (AP) — Nearly 44 years after Jimmy Carter left the nation's capital in humbling defeat, the 39th president returned to Washington on Tuesday for state funeral rites that featured the kind ...

Then-President Joe Biden ordered flags be flown at half-staff for 30 days following the death of former President Jimmy ...

He used the folksy moniker “Jimmy.” To show his accessibility as president, he held special radio call-in programs, where listeners could dial a phone number and directly ask him a question.

Jimmy Carter, the 39th President of the United States, Nobel Peace Prize laureate and a devout Baptist known for his charitable work and long-standing role as a Sunday school teacher, has passed ...

I was surprised he remembered but probably shouldn’t have been. The 39th president, who died Sunday at age 100, was a very smart man whose toothy smile and down-home Southern style masked some ...

Leaders at SMU joined the chorus of tributes to the 39th president as the nation mourned the passing of the United States’ ...

Former President Jimmy Carter’s nearly week-long public farewell began Saturday in the tiny Georgia town where he launched the political career that took him to the White House. The 39th ...

Timothée Chalamet stirred controversy during his recent Saturday Night Live appearance after making a joke referencing late ...

He grew up on a peanut farm. He served in the submarine fleet. He won a longshot campaign to be the 39th president. He devoted himself to global health, peace and democracy. From humble beginnings ...

From the beginning, Jimmy Carter seemed like a detergent who could sweep into the nation’s capital and scrub it clean.