Author: Mary Jordan

Washington Post – Politics:

The Carters, who met as small children in Plains, Ga., were married for 77 years. Friends say it is ‘hard to imagine one without the other.’

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Seven months after entering hospice, Jimmy Carter defied expectations with his 99th birthday on Sunday.

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Despite serious health problems, Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter still spend most days beside each other in the living room of the Georgia bungalow they built in 1961.

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The Republican Senate nominee repeatedly cites his faith and argues that he has been saved by God’s grace when confronted by criticism of his past behavior. It is a message that resonates with many evangelical voters.

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Former president Jimmy Carter, who has already lived longer than any other U.S. president, is celebrating his 98th birthday on Saturday.

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There is no national count of how many lives end this way. But a Washington Post investigation that included interviews with more than 100 local officials from Hawaii to Maine who handle uncollected bodies found there are tens of thousands a year. It also found that “border bodies” people like An — who did not live within the borders of the state where they died — are the hardest to lay to rest.

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Thousands of veterans, especially from the Vietnam era, die alone every year, according to a Washington Post investigation.