The 10-year Treasury yield touched a fresh 14-month high as investors looked ahead to key inflation prints. The yield on the 10-year Treasury was last up around 2 basis points at 4.79%, the highest level since Nov. 1, 2023. This followed the 10-year Treasury yield’s jump on Friday following a hotter-than-expected jobs report. The 2-year […]
A photo shared by Vice President Kamala Harris from Jimmy Carter’s funeral is gaining attention for the exclusion of a certain former and incoming president. While President-elect Donald Trump attended the Washington, D.C. funeral Thursday alongside the other four living presidents, he was not present in Harris’ post. The image shows Harris, President Joe Biden […]
One minute, President Barack Obama is calling President-elect Donald Trump loopily old, saying “If your grandpa was acting like this, you’d be worried,” referring to him as “a fucking lunatic,” and taking the stage to diss him at the Democratic National Convention. The next minute, he appears to be laughing at the guy’s jokes and […]
WASHINGTON — By the standard President Biden set himself, the core purpose he proclaimed when he ran in 2020, it is impossible to assess his one-term presidency as anything but a failure. “We are in a battle for the soul of this nation,” Biden said as he began his campaign in 2019. “If we give Donald […]
Singer-songwriter Justin Timberlake, ASCAP President and Chairman of the Board Paul Williams, former president Jimmy Carter, and singer Trisha Yearwood attend the 53rd annual ASCAP Country Music awards at the Omni Hotel on November 2, 2015 in Nashville, Tennessee. Michael Loccisano/Getty Images When Brinkley asked Carter what the appeal of Georgia was for Hollywood, his […]
PLAINS, Ga. (AP) — Johnny Jones found out about Jimmy Carter’s death within a matter of minutes. That’s how it works in a small town, even for a former U.S. president and Nobel Peace Prize winner known throughout the world. “Somebody texted my wife and told her about it — that’s when I found out,” […]
Before his death, Carter told his son, Chip, “I’m only trying to make it to vote for Kamala Harris,” according to reporting from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. In October 2024, he cast his last vote via absentee ballot. President-elect Donald Trump “Those of us who have been fortunate to have served as President understand this is […]
ISTANBUL, TURKEY – OCTOBER 31: (NO SALES) In this handout image provided by the Elders, Jimmy … [+] Carter walks with his grandsons Jeremy Carter (R), 22, and Hugo Wentzel, 10 during a picnic event on October 31, 2009 in Istanbul, Turkey.Jimmy Carter, Desmond Tutu and their fellow Elders invited their grandchildren to join them […]
Jimmy Carter, who died Sunday, is the first presidential candidate I remember publicly expressing an opinion of. As it turned out, Carter would also be the first (and only) president to publicly express an opinion of me. During Carter’s presidency he was criticized and lampooned, but during his life he was more often hailed for […]
Jimmy Carter left office in 1981 one of the least popular U.S. presidents ever. He died Sunday, at the age of 100, according to his son, James E. Carter III, as one of the most popular ex-presidents ever. Indeed, he redefined the role. Carter’s predecessor, the never-actually-elected Gerald Ford, was Exhibit A of the previous […]
