BILL BARROW

Bill Barrow covers U.S. politics. He is based in Atlanta.

Jimmy Carter eulogized by Kamala Harris and others as 39th president returns to Washington

Jimmy Carter’s state funeral has moved to Washington after observances in his native Georgia. The 39th president’s remains left the Carter Presidential Center on Tuesday morning and flew to the Washington area aboard Special Air Mission 39.

Jimmy Carter raised climate change concerns 35 years before the Paris Accords

Jimmy Carter considered himself such an environmentalist that he made green his signature campaign color.

Jimmy Carter’s funeral begins by tracing 100 years from rural Georgia to the world stage

Jimmy Carter’s long public goodbye began in Georgia, where the 39th U.S. president’s life started more than 100 years ago.

Jimmy Carter’s state funeral has started. Here’s what to know

Six days of funeral observances for former President Jimmy Carter are set to take place in Georgia, where he died on Dec. 29 at the age of 100.

Jimmy the Baptist: Carter redefined ‘evangelical,’ from campaigns to race and women’s rights

Former President Jimmy Carter was widely known as a man of faith, a born-again Christian who defined himself as a progressive evangelical.

Jimmy Carter is being mourned in his tiny hometown and around the world

Tributes to former President Jimmy Carter are pouring in from his small hometown of Plains, Georgia, and around the world.

Jimmy Carter and Playboy: How ‘the weirdo factor’ rocked ’76

Jimmy Carter already had drawn months of media scrutiny as a devout Southern Baptist running for president.

Jimmy Carter: Many evolutions for a centenarian ‘citizen of the world’

The 39th and longest-lived U.S. president, James Earl Carter Jr., died Sunday at the age of 100. His life ended where it began, in Plains, Georgia.

Jimmy Carter, the 39th US president, has died at 100

Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter has died. He was 100 years old and had spent roughly 22 months in hospice care.

The new right gathers to celebrate Trump and the splintering of the Republican Party

That Donald Trump failed to achieve central goals in the government shutdown fight alongside Elon Musk seemed unimportant to many speakers and attendees at Turning Point USA’s AmericaFest.

Takeaways from Trump’s 1st rally speech as president-elect

President-elect Donald Trump came to Arizona on Sunday for his first rally speech since winning the November election.

Trump threatens to try to take back the Panama Canal. Panama’s president balks at the suggestion

Donald Trump is suggesting that his new administration could try to regain control of the Panama Canal.

Millions of people may get expanded Social Security benefits. Who are they and how would it happen?

Nearly 3 million people could receive a boost in Social Security payments under legislation that’s set for a final vote in the Senate.

Trump says he can’t guarantee tariffs won’t raise US prices and won’t rule out revenge prosecutions

Donald Trump says he can’t guarantee his promised tariffs on key U.S. foreign trade partners won’t raise prices for American consumers.

Democrats’ outgoing chair says Trump’s win forces party to reassess how it reaches voters

The outgoing Democratic National Committee chairman is downplaying his party’s November loss to President-elect Donald Trump and arguing Democrats avoided even greater losses that parties in power have faced around the world.

Some Democrats are frustrated over Joe Biden reversing course and pardoning his son Hunter

Already reeling from their November defeat at the polls, Democrats now are grappling with President Joe Biden’s pardoning of his son for a federal felony conviction — after the party spent years slamming Donald Trump as a threat to democracy who operates above the law.

Bidens open final White House holiday season with turkey pardons, Christmas tree and ‘friendsgiving’

President Joe Biden and his wife, Jill, have opened their final holiday season at the White House. The president on Monday issued the traditional reprieve to turkeys Peach and Blossom, who will bypass the Thanksgiving table and live out their days in Minnesota.

Trump 2.0 has a Cabinet and executive branch of different ideas and eclectic personalities

Donald Trump’s personnel choices for his new Cabinet and White House reflect his signature positions on immigration and trade but also a range of viewpoints and backgrounds that raise questions about what ideological anchors might guide his Oval Office encore.

What to know about Brooke Rollins, Trump’s pick for agriculture secretary

President-elect Donald Trump has selected former White House aide Brooke Rollins to lead the Department of Agriculture.

After Trump’s Project 2025 denials, he is tapping its authors and influencers for key roles

During the campaign, President-elect Donald Trump had hailed what would become Project 2025 as a conservative roadmap for “exactly what our movement will do.”

Trump taps Rollins as agriculture chief, completing proposed slate of Cabinet secretaries

President-elect Donald Trump says he will nominate former White House aide Brooke Rollins to be his agriculture secretary.

What to know about Lori Chavez-DeRemer, Trump’s pick for labor secretary

President-elect Donald Trump has named Oregon Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer to lead the Department of Labor, elevating a Republican congresswoman who has strong support from unions in her district but lost reelection in November.

Kamala Harris raised $1 billion-plus in defeat. She’s still sending persistent appeals to donors

Kamala Harris and the Democratic Party’s prodigious fundraising operation raised more than $1 billion in her loss to Donald Trump, but the vice president is still pushing donors for more money after the election.

Trump hammered Democrats on transgender issues. Now the party is at odds on a response

Democrats are grappling with how to handle transgender politics and policy following a campaign that featured withering and often misleading GOP attacks on the issue.

Donald Trump has sweeping plans for a second administration. Here’s what he’s proposed

The now president-elect has outlined an agenda that blends traditional conservative approaches to taxes, regulation and cultural issues with a more populist bent on trade and a shift in America’s international role.

Election takeaways: Trump’s decisive victory in a deeply divided nation

Donald Trump scored a decisive victory in a deeply divided nation. And in the process, the Republican president-elect exposed a weakness within the Democratic base.

Empty seats become a more common sight at Trump’s final rallies

Donald Trump’s attention to crowd size carried through to the end of the 2024 presidential campaign.

Harris and Trump set sights on Pennsylvania in final push before Election Day

Kamala Harris and Donald Trump closed out this year’s presidential race with a fierce battle for Pennsylvania on Monday, making their final pitch to voters across a state that could prove decisive in the campaign for the White House.

In dash across Michigan, Harris contrasts optimism with Trump’s rhetoric without uttering his name

On the last Sunday before Election Day, Democrat Kamala Harris did not mention Donald Trump’s name. Harris urged voters not to be fooled by Trump’s disparagement of the electoral system that he falsely claims is rigged against him.

Trump and Vance make anti-transgender attacks central to their campaign’s closing argument

Donald Trump has made his opposition to transgender rights central to his closing argument before Election Day.