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From Carter's funeral, an American snapshot: A singular image, 5 presidents, 379 years of history

By TED ANTHONY
Jan 09, 2025 12:25 pm - Look at their faces — formal, etched with experience, laden with the weight of momentous decisions. Add up their years: 379 to be exact, enough time to take you back into the mid-1600s, when the notion of the American nation was still more than a century away.
Jimmy Carter lauded for his humility and service in Washington before his return to Georgia

By BILL BARROW
Jan 09, 2025 9:26 am - Jimmy Carter was celebrated Thursday for his personal humility and public service before, during and after his presidency during a funeral at Washington National Cathedral featuring the kind of pageantry the 39th U.S. president typically eschewed.
Biden casts doubt on his fitness to serve another four years days before term ends

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE
Jan 08, 2025 2:56 pm - President Joe Biden, in a new interview days before he leaves office, cast doubt on his fitness to serve another four years even as he maintained that he could have won election to a second term.
Mexico’s President Sheinbaum offers sarcastic response to Trump’s ‘Gulf of America’ comment

By MEGAN JANETSKY
Jan 08, 2025 2:42 pm - Mexico's President Claudia Sheinbaum responded sarcastically on Wednesday to U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's proposal to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America.
A Russian missile attack in southern Ukraine has killed at least 13 civilians, officials say

By ILLIA NOVIKOV
Jan 08, 2025 11:01 am - KYIV, Ukraine — A Russian missile attack on the southern Ukraine city of Zaporizhzhia killed at least 13 civilians and injured dozens Wednesday, officials said. Footage p...
Justice Department says it plans to release only part of special counsel's Trump report for now

By ERIC TUCKER and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER
Jan 08, 2025 9:11 am - The Justice Department says it will release special counsel Jack Smith’s findings on Donald Trump’s efforts to undo the results of the 2020 presidential election but will keep the rest of the report under wraps for now.
Trump asks the Supreme Court to block sentencing in his hush money case in New York

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST and MARK SHERMAN
Jan 08, 2025 7:51 am - President-elect Donald Trump is asking the Supreme Court to call off Friday's sentencing in his hush money case in New York.
Jimmy Carter continues to lie in state at Capitol Rotunda ahead of his state funeral

By BILL BARROW
Jan 08, 2025 6:58 am - President Jimmy Carter will continue to lie in state Wednesday after his remains arrived in Washington a day earlier as part of state funeral rites.
Appeals court rejects Trump's latest attempt to get Friday's hush money sentencing called off

By MICHAEL R. SISAK and JENNIFER PELTZ
Jan 07, 2025 12:53 pm - A New York appeals court judge on Tuesday denied President-elect Donald Trump's latest bid to delay this week’s sentencing in his hush money case.
Trump refuses to rule out use of military force to take control of Greenland and the Panama Canal

By WILL WEISSERT and ZEKE MILLER
Jan 07, 2025 11:50 am - President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday said he would not rule out the use of military force to seize control of the Panama Canal and Greenland, as he declared U.S. control of both to be vital to American national security.

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