A state funeral for former President Jimmy Carter, who died on Dec. 29, 2024, at the age of 100, is held on Jan. 9 at the Washington National Cathedral. President Joe Biden, who will eulogize Carter at the funeral, has directed that Jan. 9 be a national day of mourning. After the funeral service, Carter’s
A state funeral for former President Jimmy Carter, who died on Dec. 29, 2024, at the age of 100, is held on Jan. 9 at the Washington National Cathedral. President Joe Biden, who will eulogize Carter at the funeral, has directed that Jan. 9 be a national day of mourning. After the funeral service, Carter’s
Carter’s is the fifth official national funeral service for a president that has been held in the National Cathedral, following Presidents Dwight Eisenhower, Ronald Reagan, Gerald Ford, George H.W. Bush, the Very Rev. Randolph Hollerith, the dean of the National Cathedral, told reporters Wednesday. But “every funeral itself, whether it’s presidential or otherwise, is completely
Billy Long, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to run the IRS, is facing questions about his qualifications to lead the tax agency from Sen. Elizabeth Warren, a Democrat from Massachusetts who serves on the Senate’s Finance Committee. While serving as a representative, Long, a Republican from Missouri and a former auctioneer, co-sponsored legislation that aimed to wipe out
Lawmakers have revived efforts to make daylight saving time permanent, clashing with sleep experts who advocate for standard time for improved health. A bipartisan group of senators, led by Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.), has reintroduced legislation to make daylight saving time permanent year-round. The proposal is opposed by a coalition of sleep medicine organizations, which
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.” Standing before a 17th-century world map in her daily press briefing, Sheinbaum proposed dryly that North America should be renamed “América Mexicana,” or “Mexican America,” because a
LOS ANGELES—President Joe Biden added a new title on Wednesday: great-grandfather. His granddaughter, Naomi Biden Neal, gave birth to her first child, a boy, with husband Peter Neal at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. The baby’s name is William Brannon Neal IV, according to an Instagram post from Jill Biden, the first lady, of