The death of Jimmy Carter has renewed discourse about his time in the White House and his post-presidential career.

Jimmy Carter formed the Department of Energy, opposed a major Oak Ridge nuclear project and responded to Three Mile Island.

A. January 1981 was a good time to be a Republican. Ronald Reagan was about to become president after defeating incumbent Jimmy Carter in November, and the GOP controlled the U.S. Senate for the first time since 1955. The new majority leader in that chamber was Tennessee's Howard Baker, a McCallie School graduate and avid Krystal fan.

In retrospect, Gov. Carter and then President Carter was a different kind of politician. His humanity, his faith, his compassion were always discernible. He said what he meant and meant what he said. In my 80 years, he was one of a kind President.

On a wintry Thursday, mourners and dignitaries gathered at Washington National Cathedral to honor the life of former President Jimmy Carter.

In an interview this week with political strategist Mark Penn, Musk – a co-leader of Trump’s not-actually-part-of-the-government Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE – changed his tune, saying $2 trillion was a “best-case outcome” and adding: “I think if we try for $2 trillion, we’ve got a good shot at getting $1 [trillion in cuts].”

Jimmy Carter was a former Navy nuclear engineer ... but his impact on the nuclear energy industry in East Tennessee is most distilled at the Clinch River Site. The 1,200-acre tract owned by ...

(WATE) — The death of Jimmy Carter has renewed discourse about his time in the White House and his post-presidential career. Dr. Lori Amber Roessner is a professor in the University of Tennessee ...

Tony Lowden was the longtime personal pastor for the Carters and served as pastor at the family’s beloved Maranatha Baptist Church in Plains and he spoke to CBS News on the way to the president's funeral.

Leading a cohort of next-generation Southern leaders in both parties, Carter grafted the region back on the national map by repudiating Jim Crow, firmly and finally extinguishing George Wallace as a political force and assembling a fearsome, if fleeting, biracial general election coalition.

A national Day of Mourning will take place on Jan. 9 the day of former President Jimmy Carter's official state funeral at Washington National Cathedral.