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The death on Sunday of former President Jimmy Carter, the nation’s oldest former president in history, quickly prompted tributes from the U.S. and abroad, with responses coming in from world leaders and ordinary citizens, celebrities and politicians and people whose lives he affected. Here are some of the reactions to Carter’s death at age 100.
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Jimmy Carter, the 39th president of the United States, died Sunday at the age of 100. Though he served only one term in office, he went on to a distinguished second act of humanitarian work, and he lived long enough to become the oldest former president in U.S. history. Carter “died peacefully Sunday, Dec. 29,
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CBS News Live CBS News 24/7 Live President Biden is speaking Sunday evening as the nation mourns former President Jimmy Carter, who died Sunday at the age of 100. Carter, the 39th president and the longest-living president in U.S. history, died at home in Plains, Georgia, surrounded by family, the Carter Center said in a
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Elected in the aftermath of the Watergate scandal that brought down President Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, the former governor of Georgia, ran as a Washington outsider and rose to the White House with a strong sense of morality, an engineer’s mind and a progressive, moderate approach to governing. Carter, who died Sunday at the age
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Dr. Leana Wen said Sunday that the lack of testing for bird flu doesn’t mean that the virus isn’t alive in humans, and that she feels the federal government “should have learned our lesson from COVID” and should be proactive in making tests available for Americans — and not wait for labs to characterize the
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Washington — Lawyers for TikTok urged the Supreme Court on Friday to find unconstitutional a new law that could lead to a ban of the widely popular app in the United States, arguing that shuttering TikTok will silence not only its speech, but also that of the platform’s more than 170 million American users. President-elect
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Washington — Earlier this month, a woman died in a crash in Rome, Georgia, after her vehicle collided with that of an officer who was responding to a fake bomb threat at the home of Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene. It was among the latest in a series of threats triggering police responses against her and other members
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Congress on edge over rampant “swatting” incidents – CBS News Watch CBS News A new Congress is set to be sworn into office next week, ending a tumultuous campaign year. For those who hoped the end of the election would break the fever of politically violent threats and rhetoric, there are new signs the opposite
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Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said in a letter sent to congressional leaders Friday afternoon that her agency will need to start taking “extraordinary measures” or special accounting maneuvers intended to prevent the nation from hitting the debt ceiling as early as Jan. 14. “Treasury expects to hit the statutory debt ceiling between January 14 and
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Marc Fogel designated “wrongfully detained” by U.S Government Marc Fogel designated “wrongfully detained” by U.S Government 01:17 PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — Marc Fogel, a Pennsylvania man imprisoned in Russia, has been designated as “wrongfully detained,” according to a U.S. Department of State spokesperson. That designation by the U.S. government was made official in October. Fogel is
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