A. January 1981 was a good time to be a Republican. Ronald Reagan was about to become president after defeating incumbent Jimmy Carter in November, and the GOP controlled the U.S. Senate for the first time since 1955. The new majority leader in that chamber was Tennessee's Howard Baker, a McCallie School graduate and avid Krystal fan.

The death of Jimmy Carter has renewed discourse about his time in the White House and his post-presidential career.

In retrospect, Gov. Carter and then President Carter was a different kind of politician. His humanity, his faith, his compassion were always discernible. He said what he meant and meant what he said. In my 80 years, he was one of a kind President.

Tony Lowden was the longtime personal pastor for the Carters and served as pastor at the family’s beloved Maranatha Baptist Church in Plains and he spoke to CBS News on the way to the president's funeral.

The former president said his background in science – nuclear physics, specifically – led him to question many traditional views of scripture.

Though the holiday is young, this will only be the 25th year that all 50 states recognize it together. Here's what's open and closed on Martin Luther King Jr. Day.

In an interview this week with political strategist Mark Penn, Musk – a co-leader of Trump’s not-actually-part-of-the-government Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE – changed his tune, saying $2 trillion was a “best-case outcome” and adding: “I think if we try for $2 trillion, we’ve got a good shot at getting $1 [trillion in cuts].”

On a wintry Thursday, mourners and dignitaries gathered at Washington National Cathedral to honor the life of former President Jimmy Carter.

The national day of mourning declared for former President Jimmy Carter includes shutdowns Thursday of some agencies and services. Carter’s six-day state funeral began Saturday in Georgia and will include two days lying in state at the U.S. Capitol.

(WATE) — The death of Jimmy Carter has renewed discourse about his time in the White House and his post-presidential career. Dr. Lori Amber Roessner is a professor in the University of Tennessee ...

Several state governors have ordered flags to be flown at full-staff on Inauguration Day, raising flags before the end of the mourning period for Jimmy Carter.