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The Latest: Federal judge temporarily blocks Trump’s federal funding freeze

Jan. 28, 2025 21:11 PM EST

A federal judge has temporarily blocked a Trump administration freeze on federal grants and loans that could total trillions of dollars and cause disruptions in health care research, education programs and other initiatives. The White House announced plans to enforce the pause on...

Caroline Kennedy warns senators that cousin RFK Jr. is a 'predator'

Jan. 28, 2025 17:58 PM EST

WASHINGTON (AP) — Calling Robert F. Kennedy Jr. a “predator” who is addicted to power, Caroline Kennedy urged the U.S. Senate in a Tuesday letter to reject the nomination of her cousin to be President Donald Trump's health secretary. In a letter to Senators, Ms. Kennedy, who...

The Latest: Jimmy Carter’s Georgia funeral ends

Jan. 09, 2025 18:47 PM EST

WASHINGTON (AP) — 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. What to know: ...

Carter and Biden's long friendship had wrinkles. It will be on display a final time with a eulogy

Jan. 08, 2025 09:08 AM EST

WASHINGTON (AP) — Joe Biden is the consummate Washington insider. Jimmy Carter was anything but. Yet the 46th and 39th U.S. presidents had a decades-long friendship starting when Biden, as a young Delaware lawmaker, became the first sitting senator to endorse Carter’s outsider...

Jimmy Carter: Many evolutions for a centenarian ‘citizen of the world’

Dec. 30, 2024 16:34 PM EST

PLAINS, Ga. (AP) — Newly married and sworn as a Naval officer, Jimmy Carter left his tiny hometown in 1946 hoping to climb the ranks and see the world. Less than a decade later, the death of his father and namesake, a merchant farmer and local politician who went by “Mr....

Jimmy Carter, the 39th US president, has died at 100

Dec. 30, 2024 06:11 AM EST

ATLANTA (AP) — Jimmy Carter, the peanut farmer who won the presidency in the wake of the Watergate scandal and Vietnam War, endured humbling defeat after one tumultuous term and then redefined life after the White House as a global humanitarian, has died. He was 100 years old. The...