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WASHINGTON - Jimmy Carter, the earnest Georgia peanut farmer who as US president struggled with a bad economy and the Iran hostage crisis but brokered peace between Israel and Egypt and later received the Nobel Peace Prize for his humanitarian work, died at his home in Plains, Georgia, on Sunday, the Carter Center said. He was 100. “My father was a hero, not only to me but to everyone who believes in peace, human rights, and unselfish love,” said Chip Carter, the former president’s son. “My brothers, sister, and I shared him with the rest of the world through these common beliefs. The world is our family because of the way he brought people together, and we thank you for honoring his memory by continuing to live these shared beliefs.” The Carter Center said there will be public observances in Atlanta and Washington. These events will be followed by a private interment in Plains, it said. Final arrangements for the former president's state funeral are still pending, according to the center. Jimmy Carter, a Democrat, served as president from January 1977 to January 1981 after defeating incumbent Republican President Gerald Ford in the 1976 US election. Carter was swept from office four years later in an electoral landslide as voters embraced Republican challenger Ronald Reagan, the former actor and California governor. Carter lived longer after his term in office than any other US president. Along the way, he earned a reputation as a better former president than he was a president — a status he readily acknowledged. His one-term presidency was marked by the highs of the 1978 Camp David accords between Israel and Egypt, bringing some stability to the Middle East. But it was dogged by an economy in recession, persistent unpopularity and the embarrassment of the Iran hostage crisis that consumed his final 444 days in office. In recent years, Carter had experienced several health issues including melanoma that spread to his liver and brain . Carter decided to receive hospice care in February 2023 instead of undergoing additional medical intervention. His wife, Rosalynn Carter, died on Nov. 19, 2023, at age 96. He looked frail when he attended her memorial service and funeral in a wheelchair. Carter left office profoundly unpopular but worked energetically for decades on humanitarian causes. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002 in recognition of his "untiring effort to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights, and to promote economic and social development." Carter had been a centrist as governor of Georgia with populist tendencies when he moved into the White House as the 39th US president. He was a Washington outsider at a time when America was still reeling from the Watergate scandal that led Republican Richard Nixon to resign as president in 1974 and elevated Ford from vice president. "I'm Jimmy Carter and I'm running for president. I will never lie to you," Carter promised with an ear-to-ear smile. Asked to assess his presidency, Carter said in a 1991 documentary: "The biggest failure we had was a political failure. I never was able to convince the American people that I was a forceful and strong leader." Despite his difficulties in office, Carter had few rivals for accomplishments as a former president. He gained global acclaim as a tireless human rights advocate, a voice for the disenfranchised and a leader in the fight against hunger and poverty, winning the respect that eluded him in the White House. Carter won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002 for his efforts to promote human rights and resolve conflicts around the world, from Ethiopia and Eritrea to Bosnia and Haiti. His Carter Center in Atlanta sent international election-monitoring delegations to polls around the world. A Southern Baptist Sunday school teacher since his teens, Carter brought a strong sense of morality to the presidency, speaking openly about his religious faith. He also sought to take some pomp out of an increasingly imperial presidency — walking, rather than riding in a limousine, in his 1977 inauguration parade. The Middle East was the focus of Carter's foreign policy. The 1979 Egypt-Israel peace treaty, based on the 1978 Camp David accords, ended a state of war between the two neighbors. Carter brought Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin to the Camp David presidential retreat in Maryland for talks. Later, as the accords seemed to be unraveling, Carter saved the day by flying to Cairo and Jerusalem for personal shuttle diplomacy. The treaty provided for Israeli withdrawal from Egypt's Sinai Peninsula and establishment of diplomatic relations. Begin and Sadat each won a Nobel Peace Prize in 1978. By the 1980 election, the overriding issues were double-digit inflation, interest rates that exceeded 20% and soaring gas prices, as well as the Iran hostage crisis that brought humiliation to America. These issues marred Carter's presidency and undermined his chances of winning a second term. Hostage crisis On Nov. 4, 1979, revolutionaries devoted to Iran's Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini had stormed the US Embassy in Tehran, seized the Americans present and demanded the return of the ousted shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, who was backed by the United States and was being treated in a US hospital. The American public initially rallied behind Carter. But his support faded in April 1980 when a commando raid failed to rescue the hostages, with eight US soldiers killed in an aircraft accident in the Iranian desert. Carter's final ignominy was that Iran held the 52 hostages until minutes after Reagan took his oath of office on Jan. 20, 1981, to replace Carter, then released the planes carrying them to freedom. In another crisis, Carter protested the former Soviet Union's 1979 invasion of Afghanistan by boycotting the 1980 Olympics in Moscow. He also asked the US Senate to defer consideration of a major nuclear arms accord with Moscow. Unswayed, the Soviets remained in Afghanistan for a decade. Carter won narrow Senate approval in 1978 of a treaty to transfer the Panama Canal to the control of Panama despite critics who argued the waterway was vital to American security. He also completed negotiations on full US ties with China. Carter created two new US Cabinet departments — education and energy. Amid high gas prices, he said America's "energy crisis" was "the moral equivalent of war" and urged the country to embrace conservation. "Ours is the most wasteful nation on earth," he told Americans in 1977. In 1979, Carter delivered what became known as his "malaise" speech to the nation, although he never used that word. "After listening to the American people I have been reminded again that all the legislation in the world can't fix what's wrong with America," he said in his televised address. "The threat is nearly invisible in ordinary ways. It is a crisis of confidence. It is a crisis that strikes at the very heart and soul and spirit of our national will. The erosion of our confidence in the future is threatening to destroy the social and the political fabric of America." As president, the strait-laced Carter was embarrassed by the behavior of his hard-drinking younger brother, Billy Carter, who had boasted: "I got a red neck, white socks, and Blue Ribbon beer." 'There you go again' Jimmy Carter withstood a challenge from Massachusetts Senator Edward Kennedy for the 1980 Democratic presidential nomination but was politically diminished heading into his general election battle against a vigorous Republican adversary. Reagan, the conservative who projected an image of strength, kept Carter off balance during their debates before the November 1980 election. Reagan dismissively told Carter, "There you go again," when the Republican challenger felt the president had misrepresented Reagan's views during one debate. Carter lost the 1980 election to Reagan, who won 44 of the 50 states and amassed an Electoral College landslide. James Earl Carter Jr. was born on Oct. 1, 1924, in Plains, Georgia, one of four children of a farmer and shopkeeper. He graduated from the US Naval Academy in 1946, served in the nuclear submarine program and left to manage the family peanut farming business. He married his wife, Rosalynn, in 1946, a union he called "the most important thing in my life." They had three sons and a daughter. Carter became a millionaire, a Georgia state legislator and Georgia's governor from 1971 to 1975. He mounted an underdog bid for the 1976 Democratic presidential nomination, and out-hustled his rivals for the right to face Ford in the general election. With Walter Mondale as his vice presidential running mate, Carter was given a boost by a major Ford gaffe during one of their debates. Ford said that "there is no Soviet domination of Eastern Europe and there never will be under a Ford administration," despite decades of just such domination. Carter edged Ford in the election, even though Ford actually won more states — 27 to Carter's 23. Not all of Carter's post-presidential work was appreciated. Former President George W. Bush and his father, former President George H.W. Bush, both Republicans, were said to have been displeased by Carter's freelance diplomacy in Iraq and elsewhere. In 2004, Carter called the Iraq war launched in 2003 by the younger Bush one of the most "gross and damaging mistakes our nation ever made." He called George W. Bush's administration "the worst in history" and said Vice President Dick Cheney was "a disaster for our country." In 2019, Carter questioned Republican Donald Trump's legitimacy as president, saying "he was put into office because the Russians interfered on his behalf." Trump responded by calling Carter "a terrible president." Carter also made trips to communist North Korea. A 1994 visit defused a nuclear crisis, as President Kim Il Sung agreed to freeze his nuclear program in exchange for resumed dialogue with the United States. That led to a deal in which North Korea, in return for aid, promised not to restart its nuclear reactor or reprocess the plant's spent fuel. But Carter irked Democratic President Bill Clinton's administration by announcing the deal with North Korea's leader without first checking with Washington. In 2010, Carter won the release of an American sentenced to eight years hard labor for illegally entering North Korea. Carter wrote more than two dozen books, ranging from a presidential memoir to a children's book and poetry, as well as works about religious faith and diplomacy. His book "Faith: A Journey for All," was published in 2018. —ReutersIslamabad [Pakistan]: Pakistan's Information Minister Attaullah Tarar on Saturday said that the man seen in a viral video falling from a container during a Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) protest in Islamabad is "completely fine." Speaking to the media, Tarar said that the man sustained minor injuries in the incident, as reported by Dawn. The viral video, shot during a protest at Islamabad's D-Chowk, shows men, dressed as security personnel with riot gear, pushing a man off a stack of three shipping containers. The PTI supporters were demanding the release of their leader and party chief, Imran Khan . The protests turned violent on November 26, and PTI supporters were met with intense tear gas shelling by security forces. 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A video of the incident also went viral, sparking various claims on social media , with some posts alleging that the man had died. Refuting these claims, Minister Tarar said, "Propaganda was spread that a person offering prayers was killed by being pushed down. He is a resident of Mandi Bahauddin and is completely fine. His video has emerged; he sustained an arm injury and has bandages." Tarar further claimed that the man was recording a TikTok video as part of a challenge with a friend and was not offering prayers at the time, as reported by Dawn. Earlier, Awami National Party (ANP) President Aimal Wali Khan called for a ban on political parties that incite violence, including PTI, Dawn reported. Speaking at a press conference alongside Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Governor Faisal Karim Kundi at the ANP central secretariat in Wali Bagh on Friday, Khan said that PTI has been working in an undemocratic and nonpolitical manner since its formation and it has always encouraged people to behave in a violent manner. He labelled PTI as "waste that should be disposed of" and said that the state had imposed PTI on Khyber Pakhtunkhwa for the past 12 years but such decisions did not give good results, as reported by Dawn report. (You can now subscribe to our Economic Times WhatsApp channel )Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save ORLANDO, Fla. — UCF coach Gus Malzahn is resigning after four seasons with the school. ESPN’s Pete Thamel was the first to report the move, which will see Malzahn to leave to take the offensive coordinator job at Florida State. Malzahn previously worked with FSU coach Mike Norvell during their time at Tulsa under then-coach Todd Graham from 2007-08. The Knights ended a disappointing 4-8 season in which they lost eight of their last nine games, the longest losing streak since 2015. Malzahn, 59, was in the fourth year of a contract through 2028. His buyout, it is reported, would have been $13.75 million. He finished 27-25 at UCF but lost 16 of his last 22 games and was a dismal 4-14 in two seasons in the Big 12. After back-to-back nine-win seasons in 2021-22, the Knights went 6-7 in 2023 and 4-8 in 2024. People are also reading... City officials admit Corvallis' flag is 'bad.' 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This is a job that I plan on being here and building it.” UCF opened the 2021 season with non-conference wins over Boise State and Bethune-Cookman before traveling to Louisville on Sept. 17, where quarterback Dillon Gabriel suffered a fractured collarbone in the final minute of a 42-35 loss. Backup Mikey Keene would finish out the season as Gabriel announced his intention to transfer. The Knights would finish the season on the plus side by accepting a bid to join the Big 12 Conference in September and then by defeating Florida 29-17 in the Gasparilla Bowl. Malzahn struck transfer portal gold in the offseason when he signed former Ole Miss quarterback John Rhys Plumlee. Plumlee, a two-sport star with the Rebels, helped guide UCF to the American Athletic Conference Championship in its final season. However, Plumlee’s injury forced the Knights to go with Keene and freshman Thomas Castellanos. The team finished with losses to Tulane in the conference championship and Duke in the Military Bowl. Plumlee would return in 2023 as UCF transitioned to the Big 12 but would go down with a knee injury in the final minute of the Knights’ 18-16 win at Boise State on Sept. 9. He would miss the next four games as backup Timmy McClain took over the team. Even on his return, Plumlee couldn’t help UCF, on a five-game losing streak to open conference play. The Knights got their first Big 12 win at Cincinnati on Nov. 4 and upset No. 15 Oklahoma State the following week, but the team still needed a win over Houston in the regular-season finale to secure a bowl bid for the eighth straight season. 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Coalition leader Peter Dutton has pledged to “keep the lights on” as he unveiled a $331 billion plan to introduce nuclear energy to Australia by the mid-2030s. “We deliver a plan today which will get the energy mix right. It will lower costs, it will keep the lights on, and it will set our country up for generations to come,” he told a press conference in Brisbane on Friday. “This is a plan which will underpin the economic success of our country for the next century. “This will make electricity reliable. It will make it more consistent. It will make it cheaper for Australians, and it will help us decarbonise as a trading economy as we must.” The Coalition plans to convert seven coal-fired power station sites around the country to nuclear power between 2035 and 2050. This would include two small nuclear modular reactors - technology that is not yet proven - and five large-scale plants. They say this would provide up to 14GW of power by 2050. This would be supported, they say, by renewables - up to which would make up 54 per cent of power generation in the National Energy Market - as well as gas and storage. The Coalition would also keep coal fire power stations running beyond their current timeline, before they are transitioned to nuclear power plans. But the plan, which Mr Dutton claims will save Australians up to $263 billion compared to Labor’s renewables approach — a 44 per cent saving for taxpayers and businesses — assumes the country will use up to 45 per cent electricity by 2050 than Labor’s preferred plan. The Coalition claims Labor has overcompensated and been overzealous in its ambition of electric vehicle rollouts and green hydrogen, and their modelling will be more in line with what Australia actually needs. Katina Curtis When pressed on what guarantees he would give to Australians that the capital cost of his nuclear project would not follow all other nuclear projects in blowing out by up to three times their planned cost, Mr Dutton only said he was “confident” in the modelling projections. On Friday, he accused Labor of a “zealot-like approach” to renewables that was “going to cause a lot of grief to our country in the near term and in the long term.” Families were paying higher power bills under Labor, he argued. The Albanese Government has strongly disputed the Coalition’s costings. But the plan is set to be hugely controversial, dividing industry as well as politicians, industry, and the Commonwealth. A major hurdle the Coalition would need to overcome to get the first nuclear power plant up and running by 2036 would be convincing the states to overturn legislative bans. Asked what progress he had made convincing premiers to agree to nuclear power, Mr Dutton said being in Opposition, they weren’t “in a position to negotiate contracts” until they are elected. But, he said he was “confident” South Australian Premier Peter Malinauskas would lead the charge. Energy Minister Chris Bowen dismissed the Coalition’s strategy as a “fantasy.” “It won’t pass the pub test, it won’t pass the sniff test,” he told ABC News. The Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis said it had identified “significant issues” with the proposals, arguing that recent projects in Europe and North America have experienced significant delays and cost overruns. “Nuclear is a costly pathway that would lead to higher power bills,” said Johanna Bowyer, IEEFA’s lead analyst. “We have found that nuclear reactor projects constructed in Europe and North America in the past 20 years have seen cost blowouts of 1.7 to 3.4 times original amounts.” However, nuclear engineers counter that there is no obstacle to achieving nuclear power within a decade besides politics. “Nuclear is...the only technology that’s proven to be workable to solve this climate change problem. Renewables just can’t cut it,” said Dave Collins, managing director and principal environmental engineer of Synergetics Consulting Engineers. The Australian political debate had been “unproductive,” he told The Nightly. Fortescue and Tattarang chairman, Andrew ‘Twiggy’ Forrest said nuclear “doesn’t stack up for Australian families or businesses dealing with the cost-of-living crisis today”. “We need the certainty of lower bills now, not at some distant point in the future. As our national science agency has shown, ‘firmed’ solar and wind are the cheapest new electricity options for all Australians,” he said. “The cost of electricity generated on a grid dominated by firmed renewable energy in 2030 will be half what you would have to pay if it came from nuclear, CSIRO found.” Prime Minister Anthony Albanese had earlier appeared to mock the Coalition proposal ahead of its long-awaited announcement. “It’s Friday the 13th, an auspicious day, I’ve got to say, for Peter Dutton to drop his nuclear nightmare policy out there,” he said. “We know this is a plan for the 2040s and in the meantime, I’m not quite sure what he thinks will happen with energy security. “The truth is that renewables are the cheapest form of new energy. Everyone knows that that’s the case.” Mr Dutton’s long-awaited nuclear costings came days after a new GenCost report by the CSIRO backed the government’s stance by stating a nuclear power plant in Australia would likely cost twice as much as renewable energy, even accounting for increased longevity of reactors. Mr Dutton called the impartiality of Australia’s leading science agency into question – a charge CSRIO rejected in a statement on Thursday that stated: “we conduct our independent, rigorous research without fear or favour.” The Opposition have based their own costings on two analyses by consultancy Frontier Economics. Shadow Energy Minister Ted O’Brien explained that the costings in the report made clear that lower prices reflected costs over time. “The 44 per cent difference in the cost between Labor’s approach and the Coalition’s approach, it is very safe to assume it would be comparable when it comes to price differential of that period of time,” he said. Mr Dutton added more about the Coalition’s approach to the months-long drafting of the policy. “What we’ve looked at is the experience of every developed country around the world, the energy mix that they using,” he said. “And if you look to jurisdictions, for example, like Ontario or in Tennessee, they are paying 18 cents a kilowatt hour for their power at the moment because they have renewables firmed up by nuclear,” he argued. “In South Australia, at the moment, people are paying 56 cents a kilowatt hour, three times the rate. So is it any wonder that we’ve had a threefold increase in the number of manufacturing businesses which have closed in our country over the last two and a half years?” The Opposition Leader also addressed the question of the safety of nuclear power. “The Prime Minister signed up to the nuclear submarines, and therefore sent a very clear message to Australians that there are no safety concerns about the latest technology in relation to nuclear,” he said, referring to the AUKUS partnership between Australia, the US and the UK,” he said. “The AUKUS legislation that enables the nuclear reactor to be a part of our defence force and to be a key technology for us to defend ourselves, that has been facilitated through legislation, which has passed through the parliament already.”Want Decades of Passive Income? 3 Stocks to Buy Now and Hold Forever
THE mom of a five-year-old girl murdered by her father is suing her home state after she claims 17 separate complaints to authorities were ignored. Harmony Montgomery was beaten to death by her father, Adam Montgomery , who hit her body in a duffel bag. Her body was never found, but in January 2022, she was declared murdered, more than two years after she was last seen. Montgomery was jailed for 56 years to life in prison on May 9, 2024, for the killing of his daughter in Manchester, New Hampshire, in 2019. Now Harmony's mother, Crystal Sorey, has detailed new allegations against the Granite State. She accuses the Division of Children, Youth, and Families (DCYF) of failing to respond to reports of abuse made months before the murder. MORE ON HARMONY MONTGOMERY The lawsuit was originally filed in September, but this month, her attorney filed a revised version including additional information about the alleged failure of duty by New Hampshire authorities. In the lawsuit, 17 different reports made to the DCYF before Harmony was reported missing by police on New Year's Eve 2021 were featured. One report states Harmony was being molested by people staying at the Montgomery family's home, where drugs were also being used. Child protection social worker, Demetrios Tsaros, is accused in the lawsuit of failing to respond appropriately to another report about Harmony's black eye. Most read in The US Sun Tsaros did not respond immediately to The U.S. Sun's requests for comment. The U.S. Sun has also contacted the New Hampshire Attorney General's Office, representing the state. This isn't the first time Harmony's mother has said her daughter was "failed" by authorities. Harmony was born in June 2014, while her father was in prison, and was placed in foster care at two months old. In 2019, Adam Montgomery was awarded full custody of his daughter by a judge. At the time, he was living with his wife Kayla and their two sons. Harmony was beaten and abused by her father, with other relatives picking up on what was going on. Her uncle, Kevin Montgomery, noticed the child had a black eye while on a visit from Florida. Montgomery reportedly said that he had "bashed her" around, and Kevin contacted child protective agencies. Chilling court documents show Montgomery's cold, defiant answers to questioning from detectives about the "injuries" she allegedly sustained while in his care. In late 2019, Montgomery was evicted from the home and the family began living in a homeless shelter. Harmony - who was struggling with toilet training - continued to suffer beatings at the hands of her father . She was last seen by her mother looking "frightened" during a FaceTime call , she later said. Her body was never discovered, but Montgomery later confessed to abusing her corpse. In June 2022, cops tore up the floorboards and ripped apart closets as they searched the apartment where Harmony was living before her disappearance. Montgomery was arrested for murder in October, 2022. A year later, Montgomery was found guilty of firearms charges in a case unrelated to Harmony's disappearance and murder. Montgomery denied killing his daughter in court in a last-ditch emotional plea to the judge during his August 2023 trial, talking about his addiction and saying he "could've had a meaningful life." He showed no remorse, appearing in court grinning with his tongue stuck out at the start of jury selection. In court, his "child killer" neck tattoo was spotted under his orange prison uniform. Earlier this year, it was uncovered that he told a friend he "hated" his daughter "right to his core" shortly before he murdered her. The trial also heard Harmony died in the back of Montgomery's car while he ate Burger King and did drugs . To this date, he has never revealed where he disposed of her body, but in February this year, he was heard on a phone call from jail saying the FBI was "wasting time" searching for Harmony. In March 2024, a New Hampshire judge granted Sorey's request to have her daughter declared legally dead due to Montgomery's confession. Harmony's stepmom, Kayla Montgomery, walked free from jail in May 2024, despite admitting to "hiding" Harmony's body. In February this year, she said she and Montgomery traveled with Harmony's body for months in a bag . Read More on The US Sun She was previously arrested in June 2022 for continuing to claim $1,500 in child benefits for Harmony more than a year after her disappearance. Kayla later told the court how her estranged husband wanted to use a "handsaw and blender" to get rid of Harmony's body, as she described how he folded her in half and stuffed her in a tote bag.
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