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 ...

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

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Inside Washington National Cathedral, the five men who've occupied the Oval Office since 1993 convened for a rare moment together at Jimmy Carter’s state funeral.

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

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