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Jimmy Carter ‘s extended public farewell began Saturday in Georgia, with the 39th U.S. president’s flag-draped casket tracing his long arc from the Depression-era South and family farming business to the pinnacle of American political power and decades as a global humanitarian.  Extended 6-day public farewell next heads to Washington …

FBI officials now say their investigation into the deadly truck attack in New Orleans is ‘crossing state and international borders’ and that the man who drove into a crowd of pedestrians in the city had travelled to both Egypt and Canada in 2023.  Authorities say attacker used smart glasses to …

NEW YORK — Your car is spying on you. That is one takeaway from the fast, detailed data that Tesla collected on the driver of one of its Cybertrucks that exploded in Las Vegas earlier this week. Privacy data experts say the deep dive by Elon Musk’s company was impressive …

Donald Trump has named Stanley Woodward, a lawyer who has defended several of the incoming president’s top aides and associates as well as people charged in the Jan. 6, 2021 attack, to join his White House legal team.  Woodward will serve as an assistant to the president and as a …

Prince William expressed his shock and sadness Saturday at the news of the death of his former nanny’s stepson in the New Year’s truck attack in New Orleans that killed 14 people and wounded dozens more.  Driver killed 14 and wounded dozens more in New Year’s Day truck ramming. Prince …

SEOUL — South Korea’s political leadership was in uncharted territory Saturday after the sitting president resisted arrest over a failed martial law decree days before the warrant expires. In scenes of high drama on Friday, Yoon Suk Yeol’s presidential guards and military troops shielded the former star prosecutor from investigators, …

A judge Friday set U.S. president-elect Donald Trump’s sentencing in his hush money case for Jan. 10 — a little over a week before he’s due to return to the White House — but promised not to jail him.  Trump convicted in May of 34 counts of falsifying business records. …

Republican Mike Johnson narrowly won re-election Friday to the U.S. House speakership on a first ballot, overcoming hard-right GOP holdouts after a tense standoff and buoyed by a nod of support from U.S. president-elect Donald Trump.  Johnson convinced two holdouts to flip and support him to once again win the …

Matthew Livelsberger wrote in the note that he needed to ‘cleanse my mind’ of the lives lost of people he knew and ‘the burden of the lives I took.’  Matthew Livelsberger likely ‘struggling with PTSD and other issues,’ FBI says. A soldier who died in an explosion of a Tesla …

SEOUL — South Korean investigators abandoned their attempt to arrest impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol at his residence on Friday over a failed martial law bid, citing safety concerns after a standoff with his security team. Yoon, who has already been suspended from duty by lawmakers, would become the first …