Analysis: Carter navigated the barbed wire of the politics of religion, Eric Garcia reports. In doing so, he ran his race and he kept his faith ...

Today’s lawmakers hailed the 39th president, but their predecessors made his four years in office a constant battle and ...

Former President Jimmy Carter, the nation's 39th chief executive, returned to Washington this week in a final procession that ...

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After a family funeral, the 39th president will be buried beside his wife at their home in Plains, Ga. President Biden, one ...

The late U.S. president was remembered during his state funeral as a man who put honesty and kindness above partisan politics ...

Obama, who attended without his wife, Michelle, shared a second-row pew with former presidents George W. Bush and Bill ...

Jimmy Carter, a U.S. president who served only one term but was widely admired for his humanitarian work after leaving the ...

United States President-elect Donald Trump shook hands on Thursday with his former Vice President, Mike Pence, at the funeral ...

Incoming commander-in-chief lashes out at long-standing Democratic foe over natural disaster engulfing Hollywood as his ...

But Detroit has engineered so many successful efforts, from fixing its streetlights to the city’s bankruptcy to a more reliable bus system, let alone the glorious revival of the Michigan Central ...