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While most retailers are open on New Year’s Eve, many have shortened hours or close early.

Federal appeals court upholds jury’s $5 million award and sexual abuse finding against President-elect Donald Trump.

A state funeral for former President Jimmy Carter will take place in Washington on Jan. 9. President Joe Biden also declared that day a National Day of Mourning.

Linda Lavin, a Tony Award-winning stage actor who became a working class icon as a waitress on the TV sitcom “Alice,” has died at age 87. Lavin’s representative says she died Sunday of complications from lung cancer. Lavin was already a success on Broadway when she was chosen to star in a new CBS sitcom in 1976 based on the...

The plane operated, by South Korean budget airline Jeju Air, skidded off a runway at Muan International Airport Sunday before slamming into a concrete fence and bursting into a fireball.

Beer lovers can raise a glass while honoring our nation’s 39th president. Jimmy Carter is a huge reason America’s craft beer scene is thriving today.

South Korean law enforcement officials have requested a court warrant to detain impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol as they investigate whether his short-lived martial law decree this month amounted to rebellion.

President Joe Biden mourned the death of former President Jimmy Carter in an address to the nation Sunday night from St. Croix, where he is spending his final New Year’s as president.

In light of former President Jimmy Carter’s death, his foundation, the Carter Center, is asking those whose lives the Nobel laureate touched to write a virtual condolence card for him.

Calvin Coolidge was president in 1924, the year Jimmy Carter was born.

Former President Jimmy Carter will receive a full state funeral on Jan. 9. The Joint Task Force National Capital Region, an office within the Department of Defense, is handling the ceremony preparations. A National Day of Mourning has been declared.

Jimmy Carter’s 2015 melanoma diagnosis introduced the world to immunotherapy, sparking future cancer research. Millions of cancer patients are living longer because of it, experts say.