Former President Jimmy Carter’s funeral on Thursday brought together five current and former presidents. But photos of the group later shared to social media by Vice President Kamala Harris and the Carter Center left one of them out of frame: President-elect Donald J. Trump. Ms. Harris, who lost a bitterly fought campaign to Mr. Trump, … Read more
The Supreme Court said on Friday that it would take up a challenge to a part of the Affordable Care Act that requires insurance companies to cover some kinds of preventative care at no cost. The law, President Barack Obama’s signature legislative achievement, has survived three major earlier encounters with the court. The new challenge … Read more
Former President Barack Obama attended Jimmy Carter’s state funeral on Thursday without his wife, Michelle Obama, although a spokeswoman for the former first lady said she sent her condolences to the Carter family. Mrs. Obama didn’t attend the funeral but sent “her thoughts and prayers to the Carter family, and everyone who loved and learned … Read more
The Pentagon’s detention operation at Guantánamo once held hundreds of men who were captured by U.S. forces and their allies in the war against terrorism. Now there are just 15 prisoners as the prison enters its 24th year. President George W. Bush opened and filled it. President Barack Obama tried to close it but couldn’t. … Read more
The five living presidents are making a rare simultaneous appearance on Thursday at former President Jimmy Carter’s funeral. It is unusual for five living presidents to be together in one place. Before 1991, there was only one other period in United States history, around 1861, when more than five presidents were even alive at the … Read more
A weeklong series of tributes to former President Jimmy Carter culminates on Thursday with a solemn state funeral in Washington that will bring together all five of the nation’s living presidents, who will temporarily put down their partisan swords to bid farewell to one of their own. Mr. Carter, who has lain in state for … Read more
President-elect Donald J. Trump said Tuesday that he planned to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the “Gulf of America,” one of several foreign policy proposal that left world leaders reeling. “It has a beautiful ring,” he said of the proposed name change for the body of water that borders several U.S. … Read more
Since his death, Jimmy Carter has been lauded for brokering the Camp David Accords and for his post-White House mission to help the poor and battle disease. But glossed over amid all the tributes is the burdensome legacy that Mr. Carter left for his Democratic Party: a presidency long caricatured as a symbol of ineffectiveness … Read more
The Defense Department has reached a sweeping settlement with tens of thousands of people who were dismissed from military service because of their sexual identity, potentially paving the way for veterans to upgrade their discharge status and receive a range of benefits they had been denied. The settlement, which the Pentagon agreed to late last … Read more