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Jimmy Carter, the 39th U. S. President, was honored with a state funeral Thursday at the Washington National Cathedral before a private family service in his tiny Georgia hometown of Plains. Here are some of the images from the day’s proceedings: From L to R, first row, US President Joe Biden, First Lady Jill Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, Secod Gentleman Doug Emhoff, second row, former President Bill Clinton, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, former President George W.

Have you heard about the free-range, wild monkeys of Dania Beach? Growing up in Fort Lauderdale, I was captivated by the colony of vervet monkeys living near the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport. These fascinating creatures, now numbering around 40, are descendants of escapees from the Dania Chimpanzee Farm breeding facility.

By JILL COLVIN and ROB GILLIES, Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump ran on a return to his “America First” foreign policy platform. The U. S., he said, could no longer afford to be the world’s policeman. On his watch, he pledged, there would be no new wars. But since winning a second term, the president-elect has been embracing a new imperialist agenda, threatening to seize the Panama Canal and Greenland — perhaps by military force — and saying he will use economic coercion to pressure Canada to become the nation’s 51st state. “Canada and the United States, that would really be something.

Former U. S. President Jimmy Carter will be honored with the pageantry of a funeral in the nation’s capital. Thursday’s events conclude six days of national funeral rites for the 39th president who died Dec. 29 at the age of 100. All of Carter’s living successors are expected to attend the Washington funeral, including President-elect Donald Trump, who paid his respects before Carter’s casket Wednesday in the Capitol Rotunda.

By MARK SHERMAN, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — In one of the most important cases of the social media age, free speech and national security collide at the Supreme Court on Friday in arguments over the fate of TikTok, a wildly popular digital platform that roughly half the people in the United States use for entertainment and information. TikTok says it plans to shut down the social media site in the U.

By ELLEN KNICKMEYER, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawyers for accused 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed are urging a federal appeals panel to let his scheduled guilty plea Friday in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, go forward in a plea agreement that would spare him and two co-defendants the risk of the death penalty in al-Qaida’s notorious Sept.