The late president is lying in state through Thursday morning, giving the public a chance to pay respect in person.

Jimmy Carter, the first former American president to live to 100, arrived back in his hometown of Plains, Georgia. Before the trip home, the former president was memorialized at Washington National Ca

Jimmy Carter, the late U.S. president who served only one term in office and was widely admired for his humanitarian work after leaving the White House, was remembered during his state funeral on Thursday as a man who put honesty and kindness above partisan politics.