Funeral services honoring former President Jimmy Carter, the 39th president of the United States, take place Thursday. A Houston tribute planned Tuesday.

“It was a tiny organization in 1984 when President and Mrs. Carter went up with a busload of volunteers from southwest Georgia to help rehab a tenement building on the Lower East Side of Manhattan,” said Jonathan Reckford, CEO of Habitat for Humanity International, in an interview in 2023.

President Joe Biden announced a national day of mourning Thursday, in honor of former President Jimmy Carter, who died Dec. 29.

FOX 5 Atlanta provided live coverage of former U.S. President Jimmy Carter's state funeral for Saturday Jan. 4, 2025.

“I think the day of the so-called ugly American is over,” Carter said during his warm 1978 reception in Nigeria, Africa's most populous country. He said the official state visit swept aside “past aloofness by the United States,” and he joked that he and Nigerian President Olesegun Obasanjo would go into peanut farming together.

Then, the caisson will travel from the Carter Center to the U.S. Capitol. Once Carter's casket is carried to the Capitol, it will be placed in the Rotunda. The public will have the opportunity to ...

The body of President Jimmy Carter has arrived in Washington, D.C. Tuesday as the nation prepares for the official state funeral for the former Commander-in-Chief.

and included stops at the Georgia State Capitol and The Carter Center in Atlanta. While the two GOP leaders focused their remarks on Carter's good works and character, Harris spoke more about his ...

In Houston, they are planning to let members ... The couple established The Carter Center in 1982 with a mission to help resolve conflicts, which expanded to advocating for democracy and ...