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88 milyon Dec. 13 Eyes Wide Shut: Gardena Cinema, 14948 Crenshaw Blvd. 8:30 p.m. $17.85. shorturl.at/CNEIL . Friday Night Movies at the Cove: “Christmas in Connecticut.” Presented by Palos Verdes Library District. Malaga Cove Library Gallery, 2400 Via Campesina, Palos Verdes Estates. 6:15-8:15 p.m. 310-377-9584, ext. 551, pvld.org . Holiday Block Printing Workshop: Craft bold ideas. Presented by Palos Verdes Art Center, 5504 Crestridge Road, Rancho Palos Verdes. 11 a.m.-5 p.m. $125. shorturl.at/0zJiS . Holiday Mixer: Presented by San Pedro Chamber of Commerce. Crafted at the Port of L.A., 112 E. 22nd St. 5-7 p.m. RSVP at 310-832-7272, shorturl.at/4kVSa . Lunch and Learn: Exercises or Your Pelvic Floor, led by Dr. Sarah Shimanek, a board-certified clinical specialist in women’s health physical therapy. Participants will learn pelvic floor exercises to improve bowel and bladder function and prevent future incontinence and other issues. Cancer Support Community South Bay, 2601 Airport Drive, Suite 100, Torrance. 12:30-2 p.m. To register for this in-person and virtual workshop, visit CSCSouthBay.org and select the online calendar. Information: Rebecca Sul, Rebecca@CSCSouthBay.org. The Nutcracker: Presented by San Pedro Ballet. James Armstrong Theatre, 3330 Civic Center Drive, Torrance. 7:30 p.m. Also 2 and 7:30 p.m., Dec. 14. $45. 310-781-7171, torrancearts.org . The Producers: A musical comedy by Mel Brooks and Thomas Meehan, and directed by Susan Weisbarth. Presented by Kentwood Players. Westchester Playhouse, 8301 Hindry Ave. $26-$30. 8 p.m. Also 2 and 8 p.m. Dec. 14. shorturl.at/stZM1 . Dec. 14 3rd Annual Kwanzaa Experience: Presented by Long Beach. Houghton Park Community Center, 6301 Myrtle Ave. 10 a.m.-2 p.m. shorturl.at/Sg2oj . 4th Annual Long Beach International Tamale Festival: Long Beach City College’s Pacific Coast Campus, 1350 E. Pacific Coast Highway. 1-9 p.m. $15. shorturl.at/0Pxif . 6th Annual Nutcracker with a Twist: Presented by En Pointe Dance and Fitness. Wilson High School Auditorium, 4400 E. 10th St., Long Beach. 2 p.m. Also 4 p.m. Dec. 15. $20-$25. shorturl.at/mZ6zL . 15th Annual Peek into the Past Tea: Presented by Palos Verdes Library District. Peninsula Center Library, 701 Silver Spur Road, Rolling Hills Estates. 11 a.m.-noon, and 2-3 p.m. Register at pvld.org . 32nd Annual Christmas Feast: Presented by the Rotary Club of Wilmington. Wilmington Senior Center, 1371 Eubank Ave. 10 a.m.-noon. lucia@rotaryclubofwilmington.org. 42nd Annual Holiday Boat Parade: Presented by Shoreline Yacht Club, Shoreline Marina, 386 E. Shoreline Drive, Long Beach. 5:30-7 p.m. shorturl.at/2p8mp . 70th Annual Daisy Lane Parade: Presented by Long Beach and Councilmember Roberto Uranga. Takes place at Daisy Avenue between Hill Street and Pacific Coast Highway. 5 p.m. shorturl.at/dHdhR . An Evening with Ira Glass: “Seven Things I’ve Learned.” Carpenter Performing Arts Center, 6200 E. Atherton St., Long Beach. 8 p.m. $68.75. 562-985-7000, carpenterarts.org . Art 11 Film Series Screening: “Beat Street” with guest speaker Tasha W. Hunter. The Art Theatre of Long Beach, 2025 E. Fourth St. 11 a.m. $9-$12. Free to members. shorturl.at/f98Sp . Arts and Crafts Series: Celebrate the Season-Make a Pomander. Presented by Long Beach Public Library. Billie Jean King Main Library, 200 W. Broadway. 1:30-4 p.m. 562-570-6729, longbeach.gov . Batman Returns: Gardena Cinema, 14948 Crenshaw Blvd. 2:30 and 5 p.m. $17.85. shorturl.at/Yioia . Befana: Presented by Long Beach Chorale and Chamber Orchestra. Grace First Presbyterian Church, 3955 N. Studebaker Road. 4-6 p.m. Also 4-6 p.m. Dec. 15. $15-$40. longbeachchorale.org . Biggest Little Zine Fair: Behind Recreational Coffee, 237 Long Beach Blvd., Long Beach. 2-6:30 p.m. biggestlittlezinefair.com . Cannibal-The Music: Gardena Cinema, 14948 Crenshaw Blvd. 8 p.m. $17.85. shorturl.at/23FaE . Cocoa Creation Family Night: Presented by Point Fermin Lighthouse Society. Point Fermin Lighthouse, 807 Paseo Del Mar, San Pedro. 4-8 p.m. 310-293-8000. Concerts by the Coast: Featuring violinist Annelle K. Gregory and pianist Vladimir Khomyakov. Presented by Glissando Music and Arts Foundation. St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, 31290 Palos Verdes Drive West, RPV. 7 p.m. $40/$20 for students. glissando.org . Family Movie: “Spellbound.” Presented by Long Beach Public Library. Mark Twain Neighborhood Library, 1401 E. Anaheim St. 2-3:45 p.m. 562-570-1046, longbeach.gov . Hmong New Year Festival 2025: Presented by the Hmong Association of Long Beach, Inc. El Dorado Park, 7550 Spring St. 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Also 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Dec. 15. hmongassociationoflongbeach.org . Native Plant Sales: Presented by Palos Verdes Peninsula Land Conservancy. George F Canyon Nature Center, 27305 Palos Verdes Drive East, RHE. 10:30 a.m.-noon. 310-541-7613, pvplc.org . Nature Club for Kids: Trees. Presented by Palos Verdes Peninsula Land Conservancy. White Point Nature Education Center, 1600 Paseo Del Mar, San Pedro. 10:30-11:30 a.m. 310-541-7613, pvplc.org . Nature Walk: Presented by Palos Verdes Peninsula Land Conservancy. Agua Amarga Reserve, 6937 Kings Harbor Drive, RPV. 9 a.m. 310-541-7613, pvplc.org . Outdoor Volunteer Day: Presented by Palos Verdes Peninsula Land Conservancy. Alta Vicente Reserve, 30940 Hawthorne Blvd., RPV. 9 a.m.-noon. 310-541-7613, pvplc.org . Ray Carroll Toy Drive Gift Wrapping: The Jewish Community Center, 2108 Vail Ave., Redondo Beach. 11 a.m. RSVP at shorturl.at/GKKd1 . Wandering Jews Hike: Saturday afternoon hikes in Palos Verdes. Most hikes are easy or moderate, take 1-2 hours and start at 2:15 p.m. Some are followed by potluck dinners. Adults, kids, seniors and dogs are welcome. Information: wanderingjewscnt@gmail.com. Dec. 15 Christmas Music Spectular: St. Peter’s By the Sea Presbyterian Church, 6410 Palos Verdes Drive South, RPV. 5:30 p.m. shorturl.at/gEJY7 . Holi Slay Drag Show: Presented Jewels Productions and Hamburger Mary’s. First Congregational Church, 241 Cedar Ave., Long Beach. 7 p.m. $10-$50. shorturl.at/A7pgS . Krampus: Gardena Cinema, 14948 Crenshaw Blvd. 7 and 9:30 p.m. $14.64. shorturl.at/b5UyK . Long Beach/Lakewood Multiple Sclerosis Support Group: Del Valle Park Activity Room, 5939 Henrilee St., Lakewood. 12:30 p.m. 562-925-4405. Outdoor Volunteer Day: Presented by Palos Verdes Peninsula Land Conservancy. White Point Nature Preserve, 1600 Paseo Del Mar, San Pedro. 9 a.m.-noon. 310-541-7613, pvplc.org . Spanish Harlem Orchestra: Salsa Navidad. Carpenter Performing Arts Center, 6200 E. Atherton St., Long Beach. 6-7:30 p.m. $53.75. 562-985-7000, carpenterarts.org . The Holiday: Gardena Cinema, 14948 Crenshaw Blvd. 3 p.m. $39.19. shorturl.at/K3C1L . Dec. 16 Breakfast with Santa: Presented by 2nd & PCH. Noble Bird Rotisserie, 6400 Pacific Coast Highway, Long Beach. 9-10 a.m. $25 for adults, and $20 for children 12 and under. To make reservations, call 562-431-0445. Conversational Spanish: Presented by Peninsula Seniors. Scriba Family Center, 602 Deep Valley Drive, Suite 310, RHE. 1:45 p.m. RSVP to 310-377-3003, pvseniors.org . Men’s Spirit Group: Redondo Beach Center for Spiritual Living Foyer, 907 Knob Hill Ave. 7 p.m. 310-540-5080, office@redondocsl.org. Welcome Orientation (virtual): Participants will be given a virtual tour of the community and learn about the many free programs that CSC South Bay offers for cancer patients and their loved ones. Presented by Cancer Support Community South Bay. 11 a.m. To register for this virtual meeting, visit CSCSouthBay.org and select the online calendar. Information: 310-376-3550; or Norma Gonzalez, cancer support navigator, Norma@CSCSouthbay.org. Dec. 17 Hot Coco and Craft: Presented by Long Beach Public Library. Harte Neighborhood Library, 1595 W. Willow St. 3-4 p.m. 562-570-1044, longbeach.gov . Family Art Workshop Holiday Edition: Presented by Redondo Beach Public Library. Main Library, 303 N. Pacific Coast Highway. 4-6 p.m. Registration required. Register at online calendar. Limit of 20 individuals. Register at shorturl.at/4ndyu . Holiday Lunch: Presented by Peninsula Seniors. The Original Red Onion Restuarant, 736 Bart Earle Way, RHE. 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. $48 for members and $52 for non-members. 310-377-3003, pvseniors.org . Overeaters Anonymous: First Christian Church, Room 9, 2930 El Dorado St., Torrance. 7:30 p.m. Call Jennifer at 310-529-5708. Patchwork Workshop: With CSULB’s Thrift Club. Presented by Long Beach Public Library. Billie Jean King Main Library, 200 W. Broadway. 4-6 p.m. 562-570-5756, longbeach.gov . Storytime with Author Susie Jaramillo: Presented by Long Beach Public Library. Billie Jean King Main Library, 200 W. Broadway. 11 a.m.-noon. 562-570-6420, longbeach.gov . Dec. 18 Drag Bingo: The Bungalow, 6400 E. Pacific Coast Highway, Suite 200, Long Beach. 7:30 p.m. bitly.ws/RUme . PV Seniors Bohannon Lecture Series: “Something About Mary,” presented by Queen Mary commodore, managing director and historian, Everette Hoard. Scriba Family Center, 602 Deep Valley Drive, RHE. 10:30-11:30 a.m. 310-377-3003, pvseniors.org . Shoreline Speakers Toastmasters: For more than 30 years Shoreline Speakers Toastmasters has provided a supportive and positive environment for people to become confident public speakers and strong leaders. 7-8 a.m. over Zoom. Information and to receive link: jgrobaty@gmail.com. Tai Chi: Led by instractor Valyn Carenza-Pack. Presented by Palos Verdes Library District. Peninsula Center Library, 701 Silver Spur Road, RHE. 2-3 p.m. The Witches of Eastwick: Gardena Cinema, 14948 Crenshaw Blvd. 8 p.m. $14.64. t.ly/tvksr . Toastmasters Club 280: Levy Torrance Adult School, 3420 W. 229th Place. 7 p.m. 310-532-1209. Transgender, Non-binary, Gender Nonconforming Social Support Group: South Bay LGBTQ Center, 16610 Crenshaw Blvd., Torrance. 7-9 p.m. 310-329-6550, bitly.ws/BjyP . Ongoing 18th Annual Nativity Exhibit: Presented by Mary and Joseph Retreat Center, 5300 Crest Road, RPV. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Sunday to Thursday, and 9 a.m.-9 p.m. Friday and Saturday until Dec. 22. 310-377-4867, ext. 250, maryjoseph.org . 42nd Annual Long Beach Nutcracker: Terrace Theater, 300 E. Ocean Blvd. $38 and up. Runs through Dec. 22. 562-426-4112, longbeachnutcracker.com . A Christmas Carol: By Charles Dickens, and presented by Long Beach Playhouse Theater. Mainstage Theater, 5021 E. Anaheim St. $20-$30. Runs through Dec. 22. 562-494-1014, lbplayhouse.org . Art of Wood Carving: Presented by California Carvers Guild. Meets from 8 a.m. to noon every Monday and Wednesday. Senior Center, 1150 E. Fourth St., Room 207, Long Beach. 562-570-3500. Blankets of Love: Weekly knitting/crocheting baby blankets for those in need in the L.A. area. Joslyn Center, 1601 N. Valley Drive, Manhattan Beach. 3-5 p.m. Thursdays. blanketsoflovesouthbay.com . Bridge, Supervised Play: Improve your bridge play with helpful mentors. Friendly game where you can ask questions while you play. No partner required. South Bay Bridge Club, 24100 Narbonne Ave., Lomita. 10 a.m.-noon Wednesdays. $5. 310-373-8166, SBBC.Club.manager@gmail.com. Club of Harps: The harmonica club for all skill levels meets every Wednesday and Thursday at the Long Beach Senior Center, 1150 E. Fourth St. 1:30-3 p.m. Information: clubofharps.org . Deck the Halls: 12 Days of Christmas at the Queen Mary. Queen Mary, 1126 Queens Highway, Long Beach. 5-9 p.m. $26.50. Runs through Dec. 23. shorturl.at/5m6FW . Dementia Caregiver Support Group: Facilitated by Beach Cities Health District’s care manager, Charlotte Barnett, in partnership with the Alzheimer’s Association and Manhattan Beach Older Adults Program. Joslyn Community Center, 1601 N. Valley Drive, Manhattan Beach. 1:30 p.m. Fourth Tuesday of the month. bchd.org/support-groups . Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance: Peer-based support group for people dealing with mood disorders. Meetings are available on Zoom and in person. Information: Scott, 310-497-8801 or woodscott516@yahoo.com; Peggy, 310-548-3457; or dbsasouthbay.org . NAMI South Bay: Family and peer support groups for mental illness are meeting virtually at this time. Information on times and dates: namisouthbay.com ; or Paul Stansbury, pstans5@aol.com. Riley’s Red Wagon: Book swap open daily (unless it’s raining). 9 a.m.-dark. 3040 E. First St. First-time guests can have five free books. justinrudd.com/cat.html . Social Skills Classes: For adolescents and young adults. Presented by We Are Team Us. Social weekly sessions, 4-5 p.m., Mondays. PEERS for Adolescents, 4-5:30 p.m., Wednesdays. Hermosa Beach Community Center, 710 Pier Ave. Information: 424-241-0058, contact@weareteamus.co or weareteamus.co . Steam Powered Rocket Ride to the Moon: Written by Jamie Sweet and directed by Rob Young. Garage Theatre, 251 E. Seventh St., Long Beach. $15-$35. Runs through Dec. 21. shorturl.at/gwg5g . Take Off Pounds Sensibly: The Harbor Church, 25401 S. Western Ave., Lomita. 7 p.m. every Tuesday. 310-378-2920. Volunteers: Help Torrance’s nonprofit facility to decorate Happy Hats for hospitalized children with cancer and other critical illnesses in South Bay Hospitals and Hospice. Tuesdays, Wednesdays or Thursdays. Happy Hats for Kids in Hospitals, 923 Van Ness Ave. 310-787-0970. Yarn Angels South Bay: A charity group that crochets/knits/quilts/sews articles for seven local charities. Meets second and fourth Monday of the month at St. Mark’s Presbyterian Church, 24027 Pennsylvania Ave., Lomita. 6-8 p.m. New members and yarn/fabric donations are welcome. Information: Marie, 310-327-9890 or yarnangels.wix.com/yarnangelssouthbay . Upcoming TK/Kindergarden Information Day 2025: Presented by Manhattan Beach Unified School District. Grand View Elementary School, 2617 Bell Ave. 9-11:30 a.m. Jan. 11. mbusd.org/Enroll . Send calendar announcements two weeks prior to the scheduled event to calendar@dailybreeze.com.Injury: Trevor Zegras underwent surgeryNone

Editorial: Virginia needs Youngkin to oppose plans to gut the civil serviceChhapra: Deputy chief mechanical engineer of the Rail Wheel Plant in Bela, A K Tripathi , was felicitated with the prestigious " 69th Ati Vishisht Rail Seva Puraskar " by railway minister Ashwini Vaishnaw at a function in New Delhi on Saturday. Highlighting Tripathi's contributions, Uttam Kumar Singh, chief public relations officer (CPRO) of the Rail Wheel Plant, said, "Tripathi has introduced several innovative methods to enhance income and efficiency in production while reducing consumption." "Under his leadership, the plant's income has increased by more than 72%. He has implemented digital work processes, improved energy efficiency and enhanced production capacity through advanced technological skills," the CPRO added. Chhapra: Deputy chief mechanical engineer of the Rail Wheel Plant in Bela, Saran district, A K Tripathi, was felicitated with the prestigious "69th Ati Vishisht Rail Seva Puraskar" by railway minister Ashwini Vaishnaw at a function in New Delhi on Saturday. Highlighting Tripathi's contributions, Uttam Kumar Singh, chief public relations officer (CPRO) of the Rail Wheel Plant, said, "Tripathi has introduced several innovative methods to enhance income and efficiency in production while reducing consumption." "Under his leadership, the plant's income has increased by more than 72%. He has implemented digital work processes, improved energy efficiency and enhanced production capacity through advanced technological skills," the CPRO added. Stay updated with the latest news on Times of India . Don't miss daily games like Crossword , Sudoku , and Mini Crossword .China says US is 'playing with fire' after latest military aid for TaiwanThe Latest Analyst Ratings For Helen Of Troy

OTTAWA — Brampton Mayor Patrick Brown said foreign interference did not tip the scales in the Conservative party’s last leadership race that installed Pierre Poilievre at the helm. But he offered up Thursday that he changed some of the language he was using after getting pushback from an Indian diplomat that some of his comments could sound like he was endorsing ideas of Sikh nationalism. Brown, who was a candidate for the leadership in 2022, was summoned to a House of Commons committee Thursday to answer questions on the 2022 race after a report from a committee on national security referred to allegations of Indian interference in an unspecified Conservative leadership campaign. “I don’t believe foreign intervention affected the final outcome of the Conservative leadership race,” Brown told the House of Commons public safety and national security committee Thursday. A CBC/Radio-Canada article this week quoted several confidential sources from Brown’s campaign alleging that representatives from India’s consulate interfered to undermine his leadership bid. On Monday, Brown posted on social media about the committee’s summons to say that he had no new evidence to add, and that the public inquiry on foreign interference was the proper venue to evaluate the allegations. Brown insisted to the committee Thursday that no members of the Indian government reached out to him or his campaign workers during his leadership bid, saying the relationship was “already very strained” at that point. The CBC News story also contained allegations that his national campaign co-chair Conservative MP Michelle Rempel Garner was pressured to withdraw her support for Brown — something she denied. When NDP MP Alistair MacGregor quizzed him on the news report, asking why she left the campaign, Brown said she left seeking to launch her own leadership bid to replace UCP leader Jason Kenney in Alberta — not from pressure from India. “At no time when we talked about her departing the campaign did she ever say it was over pressure from the consul general,” he said. He said the article likely referred to a conference call more than a month before she left, after the consul general raised concerns with Rempel Garner about Brown using the words “Sikh nation.” “The consul general had expressed directly to (Rempel Garner) that, obviously that was something they didn’t agree with, that it could be viewed in nationalistic terms towards the Sikh community,” he said. That led him to change the language he was employing to a Punjabi term that he said meant the same thing. Liberal MP Jennifer O’Connell asked if that’s “an appropriate election activity by a foreign government,” charging it was a clear instance of foreign interference. Brown replied that Indian officials “have been more robust in their opinions than some of us would be comfortable with.” A bombshell report by the National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians into foreign interference released last spring referred to “India’s alleged interference in a Conservative Party of Canada leadership race.” Brown said he was not under any kind of non-disclosure agreement with the Conservative Party that prevents him from speaking publicly about what happened during the race. He said he believes it’s important to guard against foreign meddling in democracy but that he does not want to get drawn into partisan debates on Parliament Hill. Brown was not included as a witness in the public inquiry into foreign interference, which wrapped up hearings earlier this fall with a final report due in the new year. He was disqualified from the party’s 2022 leadership race due to allegations related to financing rules in the Canada Elections Act. This report by The Canadian Press was first published Dec. 5, 2024. Kyle Duggan, The Canadian Press

DUBAI - Syria's new leader Ahmed al-Sharaa told Al Arabiya TV on Sunday that elections could take four years, noted the importance of ties with Iran and Russia, and called for the United States to lift sanctions. In a wide-ranging interview three weeks after his Islamist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham and allied rebels ousted longtime ruler Bashar al-Assad from power after a lightning offensive, Sharaa also said that local Kurdish-led forces which Turkey opposes should be integrated into the national army. "The election process could take four years," Sharaa told Saudi-owned Al Arabiya. "We need to rewrite the constitution" which could take "two or three years", added Sharaa. United Nations Security Council Resolution 2254, adopted in 2015, outlined a roadmap for a political transition in Syria that included drafting a new constitution and holding UN-supervised elections. Visiting UN special envoy Geir Pedersen this month said he hoped Syria would "adopt a new constitution... and that we will have free and fair elections" after a transitional period. Diplomats from the United States, Turkey, the European Union and Arab countries who met in Jordan this month also called for "an inclusive, non-sectarian and representative government formed through a transparent process". An interim government has been appointed to steer the country until March 1. Sharaa expressed hope that the incoming administration of US President-elect Donald Trump would lift sanctions imposed under Assad on the now war-torn and impoverished country. "The sanctions on Syria were issued based on the crimes that the regime committed," Sharaa said, adding that since Assad was gone, "these sanctions should be removed automatically". - Russia, Iran - Sharaa's Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), rooted in Syria's Al-Qaeda branch, is proscribed as a terrorist organisation by many governments including the United States, though it has recently sought to moderate its rhetoric and vowed to protect Syria's religious and ethnic minorities. Sharaa said HTS's dissolution would be announced "during the national dialogue conference", without specifying a date, and emphasising that the dialogue would include all Syrians. He also noted the importance of ties with Russia and Iran, both key allies of Assad, helping him claw back territory during 13 years of war before the rebels launched their offensive last month. "Syria cannot continue without relations with an important regional country like Iran, but they must be based on respect for the sovereignty of both countries and non-interference in the affairs of both countries," Sharaa said. Iran-backed groups including Lebanon's Hezbollah militants were heavily present in Syria under Assad, and Iran long provided what it described as military advisers to the Syrian armed forces. "Russia is an important country and is considered the second most powerful country in the world," Sharaa said, noting the "deep strategic interests between Russia and Syria". Assad fled to Russia as rebels closed in on Damascus, and uncertainty has shrouded the future of Moscow's naval base in Tartus and its Hmeimim air base, both on Syria's Mediterranean coast. - 'Investment' - "All Syria's arms are of Russian origin, and many power plants are managed by Russian experts... We do not want Russia to leave Syria in the way that some wish," Sharaa added. He also said local Kurdish-led forces which Turkey opposes should be integrated into the national army. Swathes of north and northeast Syria are controlled by a Kurdish-led administration whose de facto army, the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), spearheaded the fight that helped defeat Islamic State group jihadists in Syria in 2019, with US backing. "Weapons must be in the hands of the state alone. Whoever is armed and qualified to join the defence ministry, we will welcome them," Sharaa said. "Under these terms and conditions, we will open a negotiations dialogue with the SDF... to perhaps find an appropriate solution," he added. Turkey accuses the main component of the SDF, the People's Protection Units (YPG), of being affiliated with the militant Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) at home, which both Washington and Ankara consider a "terrorist" group. Sharaa also said regional powerhouse Saudi Arabia "will certainly have a large role in Syria's future", pointing to "a big investment opportunity for all neighbouring countries".ATLANTA (AP) — Jimmy Carter, the peanut farmer who won the presidency in the wake of the Watergate scandal and Vietnam War, endured humbling defeat after one tumultuous term and then redefined life after the White House as a global humanitarian, has died. He was 100 years old. The longest-lived American president died on Sunday, more than a year after entering hospice care , at his home in the small town of Plains, Georgia, where he and his wife, Rosalynn, who died at 96 in November 2023 , spent most of their lives, The Carter Center said. “Our founder, former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, passed away this afternoon in Plains, Georgia,” the center said in posting about his death on the social media platform X. It added in a statement that he died peacefully, surrounded by his family. Businessman, Navy officer, evangelist, politician, negotiator, author, woodworker, citizen of the world — Carter forged a path that still challenges political assumptions and stands out among the 45 men who reached the nation’s highest office. The 39th president leveraged his ambition with a keen intellect, deep religious faith and prodigious work ethic, conducting diplomatic missions into his 80s and building houses for the poor well into his 90s. “My faith demands — this is not optional — my faith demands that I do whatever I can, wherever I am, whenever I can, for as long as I can, with whatever I have to try to make a difference,” Carter once said. A moderate Democrat, Carter entered the 1976 presidential race as a little-known Georgia governor with a broad smile, outspoken Baptist mores and technocratic plans reflecting his education as an engineer. His no-frills campaign depended on public financing, and his promise not to deceive the American people resonated after Richard Nixon’s disgrace and U.S. defeat in southeast Asia. “If I ever lie to you, if I ever make a misleading statement, don’t vote for me. I would not deserve to be your president,” Carter repeated before narrowly beating Republican incumbent Gerald Ford, who had lost popularity pardoning Nixon. Carter governed amid Cold War pressures, turbulent oil markets and social upheaval over racism, women’s rights and America’s global role. His most acclaimed achievement in office was a Mideast peace deal that he brokered by keeping Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin at the bargaining table for 13 days in 1978. That Camp David experience inspired the post-presidential center where Carter would establish so much of his legacy. Yet Carter’s electoral coalition splintered under double-digit inflation, gasoline lines and the 444-day hostage crisis in Iran. His bleakest hour came when eight Americans died in a failed hostage rescue in April 1980, helping to ensure his landslide defeat to Republican Ronald Reagan. Carter acknowledged in his 2020 “White House Diary” that he could be “micromanaging” and “excessively autocratic,” complicating dealings with Congress and the federal bureaucracy. He also turned a cold shoulder to Washington’s news media and lobbyists, not fully appreciating their influence on his political fortunes. “It didn’t take us long to realize that the underestimation existed, but by that time we were not able to repair the mistake,” Carter told historians in 1982, suggesting that he had “an inherent incompatibility” with Washington insiders. Carter insisted his overall approach was sound and that he achieved his primary objectives — to “protect our nation’s security and interests peacefully” and “enhance human rights here and abroad” — even if he fell spectacularly short of a second term. Ignominious defeat, though, allowed for renewal. The Carters founded The Carter Center in 1982 as a first-of-its-kind base of operations, asserting themselves as international peacemakers and champions of democracy, public health and human rights. “I was not interested in just building a museum or storing my White House records and memorabilia,” Carter wrote in a memoir published after his 90th birthday. “I wanted a place where we could work.” That work included easing nuclear tensions in North and South Korea, helping to avert a U.S. invasion of Haiti and negotiating cease-fires in Bosnia and Sudan. By 2022, The Carter Center had declared at least 113 elections in Latin America, Asia and Africa to be free or fraudulent. Recently, the center began monitoring U.S. elections as well. Carter’s stubborn self-assuredness and even self-righteousness proved effective once he was unencumbered by the Washington order, sometimes to the point of frustrating his successors . He went “where others are not treading,” he said, to places like Ethiopia, Liberia and North Korea, where he secured the release of an American who had wandered across the border in 2010. “I can say what I like. I can meet whom I want. I can take on projects that please me and reject the ones that don’t,” Carter said. He announced an arms-reduction-for-aid deal with North Korea without clearing the details with Bill Clinton’s White House. He openly criticized President George W. Bush for the 2003 invasion of Iraq. He also criticized America’s approach to Israel with his 2006 book “Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid.” And he repeatedly countered U.S. administrations by insisting North Korea should be included in international affairs, a position that most aligned Carter with Republican President Donald Trump. Among the center’s many public health initiatives, Carter vowed to eradicate the guinea worm parasite during his lifetime, and nearly achieved it: Cases dropped from millions in the 1980s to nearly a handful. With hardhats and hammers, the Carters also built homes with Habitat for Humanity. The Nobel committee’s 2002 Peace Prize cites his “untiring effort to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights, and to promote economic and social development.” Carter should have won it alongside Sadat and Begin in 1978, the chairman added. Carter accepted the recognition saying there was more work to be done. “The world is now, in many ways, a more dangerous place,” he said. “The greater ease of travel and communication has not been matched by equal understanding and mutual respect.” Carter’s globetrotting took him to remote villages where he met little “Jimmy Carters,” so named by admiring parents. But he spent most of his days in the same one-story Plains house — expanded and guarded by Secret Service agents — where they lived before he became governor. He regularly taught Sunday School lessons at Maranatha Baptist Church until his mobility declined and the coronavirus pandemic raged. Those sessions drew visitors from around the world to the small sanctuary where Carter will receive his final send-off after a state funeral at Washington’s National Cathedral. The common assessment that he was a better ex-president than president rankled Carter and his allies. His prolific post-presidency gave him a brand above politics, particularly for Americans too young to witness him in office. But Carter also lived long enough to see biographers and historians reassess his White House years more generously. His record includes the deregulation of key industries, reduction of U.S. dependence on foreign oil, cautious management of the national debt and notable legislation on the environment, education and mental health. He focused on human rights in foreign policy, pressuring dictators to release thousands of political prisoners . He acknowledged America’s historical imperialism, pardoned Vietnam War draft evaders and relinquished control of the Panama Canal. He normalized relations with China. “I am not nominating Jimmy Carter for a place on Mount Rushmore,” Stuart Eizenstat, Carter’s domestic policy director, wrote in a 2018 book. “He was not a great president” but also not the “hapless and weak” caricature voters rejected in 1980, Eizenstat said. Rather, Carter was “good and productive” and “delivered results, many of which were realized only after he left office.” Madeleine Albright, a national security staffer for Carter and Clinton’s secretary of state, wrote in Eizenstat’s forward that Carter was “consequential and successful” and expressed hope that “perceptions will continue to evolve” about his presidency. “Our country was lucky to have him as our leader,” said Albright, who died in 2022. Jonathan Alter, who penned a comprehensive Carter biography published in 2020, said in an interview that Carter should be remembered for “an epic American life” spanning from a humble start in a home with no electricity or indoor plumbing through decades on the world stage across two centuries. “He will likely go down as one of the most misunderstood and underestimated figures in American history,” Alter told The Associated Press. James Earl Carter Jr. was born Oct. 1, 1924, in Plains and spent his early years in nearby Archery. His family was a minority in the mostly Black community, decades before the civil rights movement played out at the dawn of Carter’s political career. Carter, who campaigned as a moderate on race relations but governed more progressively, talked often of the influence of his Black caregivers and playmates but also noted his advantages: His land-owning father sat atop Archery’s tenant-farming system and owned a main street grocery. His mother, Lillian , would become a staple of his political campaigns. Seeking to broaden his world beyond Plains and its population of fewer than 1,000 — then and now — Carter won an appointment to the U.S. Naval Academy, graduating in 1946. That same year he married Rosalynn Smith, another Plains native, a decision he considered more important than any he made as head of state. She shared his desire to see the world, sacrificing college to support his Navy career. Carter climbed in rank to lieutenant, but then his father was diagnosed with cancer, so the submarine officer set aside his ambitions of admiralty and moved the family back to Plains. His decision angered Rosalynn, even as she dived into the peanut business alongside her husband. Carter again failed to talk with his wife before his first run for office — he later called it “inconceivable” not to have consulted her on such major life decisions — but this time, she was on board. “My wife is much more political,” Carter told the AP in 2021. He won a state Senate seat in 1962 but wasn’t long for the General Assembly and its back-slapping, deal-cutting ways. He ran for governor in 1966 — losing to arch-segregationist Lester Maddox — and then immediately focused on the next campaign. Carter had spoken out against church segregation as a Baptist deacon and opposed racist “Dixiecrats” as a state senator. Yet as a local school board leader in the 1950s he had not pushed to end school segregation even after the Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education decision, despite his private support for integration. And in 1970, Carter ran for governor again as the more conservative Democrat against Carl Sanders, a wealthy businessman Carter mocked as “Cufflinks Carl.” Sanders never forgave him for anonymous, race-baiting flyers, which Carter disavowed. Ultimately, Carter won his races by attracting both Black voters and culturally conservative whites. Once in office, he was more direct. “I say to you quite frankly that the time for racial discrimination is over,” he declared in his 1971 inaugural address, setting a new standard for Southern governors that landed him on the cover of Time magazine. His statehouse initiatives included environmental protection, boosting rural education and overhauling antiquated executive branch structures. He proclaimed Martin Luther King Jr. Day in the slain civil rights leader’s home state. And he decided, as he received presidential candidates in 1972, that they were no more talented than he was. In 1974, he ran Democrats’ national campaign arm. Then he declared his own candidacy for 1976. An Atlanta newspaper responded with the headline: “Jimmy Who?” The Carters and a “Peanut Brigade” of family members and Georgia supporters camped out in Iowa and New Hampshire, establishing both states as presidential proving grounds. His first Senate endorsement: a young first-termer from Delaware named Joe Biden. Yet it was Carter’s ability to navigate America’s complex racial and rural politics that cemented the nomination. He swept the Deep South that November, the last Democrat to do so, as many white Southerners shifted to Republicans in response to civil rights initiatives. A self-declared “born-again Christian,” Carter drew snickers by referring to Scripture in a Playboy magazine interview, saying he “had looked on many women with lust. I’ve committed adultery in my heart many times.” The remarks gave Ford a new foothold and television comedians pounced — including NBC’s new “Saturday Night Live” show. But voters weary of cynicism in politics found it endearing. Carter chose Minnesota Sen. Walter “Fritz” Mondale as his running mate on a “Grits and Fritz” ticket. In office, he elevated the vice presidency and the first lady’s office. Mondale’s governing partnership was a model for influential successors Al Gore, Dick Cheney and Biden. Rosalynn Carter was one of the most involved presidential spouses in history, welcomed into Cabinet meetings and huddles with lawmakers and top aides. The Carters presided with uncommon informality: He used his nickname “Jimmy” even when taking the oath of office, carried his own luggage and tried to silence the Marine Band’s “Hail to the Chief.” They bought their clothes off the rack. Carter wore a cardigan for a White House address, urging Americans to conserve energy by turning down their thermostats. Amy, the youngest of four children, attended District of Columbia public school. Washington’s social and media elite scorned their style. But the larger concern was that “he hated politics,” according to Eizenstat, leaving him nowhere to turn politically once economic turmoil and foreign policy challenges took their toll. Carter partially deregulated the airline, railroad and trucking industries and established the departments of Education and Energy, and the Federal Emergency Management Agency. He designated millions of acres of Alaska as national parks or wildlife refuges. He appointed a then-record number of women and nonwhite people to federal posts. He never had a Supreme Court nomination, but he elevated civil rights attorney Ruth Bader Ginsburg to the nation’s second highest court, positioning her for a promotion in 1993. He appointed Paul Volker, the Federal Reserve chairman whose policies would help the economy boom in the 1980s — after Carter left office. He built on Nixon’s opening with China, and though he tolerated autocrats in Asia, pushed Latin America from dictatorships to democracy. But he couldn’t immediately tame inflation or the related energy crisis. And then came Iran. After he admitted the exiled Shah of Iran to the U.S. for medical treatment, the American Embassy in Tehran was overrun in 1979 by followers of the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. Negotiations to free the hostages broke down repeatedly ahead of the failed rescue attempt. The same year, Carter signed SALT II, the new strategic arms treaty with Leonid Brezhnev of the Soviet Union, only to pull it back, impose trade sanctions and order a U.S. boycott of the Moscow Olympics after the Soviets invaded Afghanistan. Hoping to instill optimism, he delivered what the media dubbed his “malaise” speech, although he didn’t use that word. He declared the nation was suffering “a crisis of confidence.” By then, many Americans had lost confidence in the president, not themselves. Carter campaigned sparingly for reelection because of the hostage crisis, instead sending Rosalynn as Sen. Edward M. Kennedy challenged him for the Democratic nomination. Carter famously said he’d “kick his ass,” but was hobbled by Kennedy as Reagan rallied a broad coalition with “make America great again” appeals and asking voters whether they were “better off than you were four years ago.” Reagan further capitalized on Carter’s lecturing tone, eviscerating him in their lone fall debate with the quip: “There you go again.” Carter lost all but six states and Republicans rolled to a new Senate majority. Carter successfully negotiated the hostages’ freedom after the election, but in one final, bitter turn of events, Tehran waited until hours after Carter left office to let them walk free. At 56, Carter returned to Georgia with “no idea what I would do with the rest of my life.” Four decades after launching The Carter Center, he still talked of unfinished business. “I thought when we got into politics we would have resolved everything,” Carter told the AP in 2021. “But it’s turned out to be much more long-lasting and insidious than I had thought it was. I think in general, the world itself is much more divided than in previous years.” Still, he affirmed what he said when he underwent treatment for a cancer diagnosis in his 10th decade of life. “I’m perfectly at ease with whatever comes,” he said in 2015 . “I’ve had a wonderful life. I’ve had thousands of friends, I’ve had an exciting, adventurous and gratifying existence.” Former Associated Press journalist Alex Sanz contributed to this report.Just one mutation can make H5N1 bird flu a threat to humans, California researchers say

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Washington recovers from upset, rolls past NJITHow WhatsApp became the world’s ‘everything app’Jimmy Carter, the 39th US president, has died at 100 ATLANTA (AP) — Jimmy Carter, the peanut farmer who won the presidency in the wake of the Watergate scandal and Vietnam War, endured humbling defeat after one tumultuous term and then redefined life after the White House as a global humanitarian, has Bill Barrow, The Associated Press Dec 29, 2024 1:32 PM Dec 29, 2024 1:35 PM Share by Email Share on Facebook Share on X Share on LinkedIn Print Share via Text Message FILE - President Jimmy Carter is interviewed in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Jan. 24, 1977. (AP Photo, File) ATLANTA (AP) — Jimmy Carter, the peanut farmer who won the presidency in the wake of the Watergate scandal and Vietnam War, endured humbling defeat after one tumultuous term and then redefined life after the White House as a global humanitarian, has died. He was 100 years old. The longest-lived American president died on Sunday, more than a year after entering hospice care , at his home in the small town of Plains, Georgia, where he and his wife, Rosalynn, who died at 96 in November 2023 , spent most of their lives, The Carter Center said. “Our founder, former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, passed away this afternoon in Plains, Georgia,” the center simply said in posting about Carter's death on the social media platform X. Businessman, Navy officer, evangelist, politician, negotiator, author, woodworker, citizen of the world — Carter forged a path that still challenges political assumptions and stands out among the 45 men who reached the nation’s highest office. The 39th president leveraged his ambition with a keen intellect, deep religious faith and prodigious work ethic, conducting diplomatic missions into his 80s and building houses for the poor well into his 90s. “My faith demands — this is not optional — my faith demands that I do whatever I can, wherever I am, whenever I can, for as long as I can, with whatever I have to try to make a difference,” Carter once said. A president from Plains A moderate Democrat, Carter entered the 1976 presidential race as a little-known Georgia governor with a broad smile, outspoken Baptist mores and technocratic plans reflecting his education as an engineer. His no-frills campaign depended on public financing, and his promise not to deceive the American people resonated after Richard Nixon’s disgrace and U.S. defeat in southeast Asia. “If I ever lie to you, if I ever make a misleading statement, don’t vote for me. I would not deserve to be your president,” Carter repeated before narrowly beating Republican incumbent Gerald Ford, who had lost popularity pardoning Nixon. Carter governed amid Cold War pressures, turbulent oil markets and social upheaval over racism, women’s rights and America’s global role. His most acclaimed achievement in office was a Mideast peace deal that he brokered by keeping Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin at the bargaining table for 13 days in 1978. That Camp David experience inspired the post-presidential center where Carter would establish so much of his legacy. Yet Carter’s electoral coalition splintered under double-digit inflation, gasoline lines and the 444-day hostage crisis in Iran. His bleakest hour came when eight Americans died in a failed hostage rescue in April 1980, helping to ensure his landslide defeat to Republican Ronald Reagan. Carter acknowledged in his 2020 “White House Diary” that he could be “micromanaging” and “excessively autocratic,” complicating dealings with Congress and the federal bureaucracy. He also turned a cold shoulder to Washington’s news media and lobbyists, not fully appreciating their influence on his political fortunes. “It didn’t take us long to realize that the underestimation existed, but by that time we were not able to repair the mistake,” Carter told historians in 1982, suggesting that he had “an inherent incompatibility” with Washington insiders. Carter insisted his overall approach was sound and that he achieved his primary objectives — to “protect our nation’s security and interests peacefully” and “enhance human rights here and abroad” — even if he fell spectacularly short of a second term. And then, the world Ignominious defeat, though, allowed for renewal. The Carters founded The Carter Center in 1982 as a first-of-its-kind base of operations, asserting themselves as international peacemakers and champions of democracy, public health and human rights. “I was not interested in just building a museum or storing my White House records and memorabilia,” Carter wrote in a memoir published after his 90th birthday. “I wanted a place where we could work.” That work included easing nuclear tensions in North and South Korea, helping to avert a U.S. invasion of Haiti and negotiating cease-fires in Bosnia and Sudan. By 2022, The Carter Center had declared at least 113 elections in Latin America, Asia and Africa to be free or fraudulent. Recently, the center began monitoring U.S. elections as well. Carter’s stubborn self-assuredness and even self-righteousness proved effective once he was unencumbered by the Washington order, sometimes to the point of frustrating his successors . He went “where others are not treading,” he said, to places like Ethiopia, Liberia and North Korea, where he secured the release of an American who had wandered across the border in 2010. “I can say what I like. I can meet whom I want. I can take on projects that please me and reject the ones that don’t,” Carter said. He announced an arms-reduction-for-aid deal with North Korea without clearing the details with Bill Clinton’s White House. He openly criticized President George W. Bush for the 2003 invasion of Iraq. He also criticized America’s approach to Israel with his 2006 book “Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid.” And he repeatedly countered U.S. administrations by insisting North Korea should be included in international affairs, a position that most aligned Carter with Republican President Donald Trump. Among the center’s many public health initiatives, Carter vowed to eradicate the guinea worm parasite during his lifetime, and nearly achieved it: Cases dropped from millions in the 1980s to nearly a handful. With hardhats and hammers, the Carters also built homes with Habitat for Humanity. The Nobel committee’s 2002 Peace Prize cites his “untiring effort to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights, and to promote economic and social development.” Carter should have won it alongside Sadat and Begin in 1978, the chairman added. Carter accepted the recognition saying there was more work to be done. “The world is now, in many ways, a more dangerous place,” he said. “The greater ease of travel and communication has not been matched by equal understanding and mutual respect.” ‘An epic American life’ Carter’s globetrotting took him to remote villages where he met little “Jimmy Carters,” so named by admiring parents. But he spent most of his days in the same one-story Plains house — expanded and guarded by Secret Service agents — where they lived before he became governor. He regularly taught Sunday School lessons at Maranatha Baptist Church until his mobility declined and the coronavirus pandemic raged. Those sessions drew visitors from around the world to the small sanctuary where Carter will receive his final send-off after a state funeral at Washington’s National Cathedral. The common assessment that he was a better ex-president than president rankled Carter and his allies. His prolific post-presidency gave him a brand above politics, particularly for Americans too young to witness him in office. But Carter also lived long enough to see biographers and historians reassess his White House years more generously. His record includes the deregulation of key industries, reduction of U.S. dependence on foreign oil, cautious management of the national debt and notable legislation on the environment, education and mental health. He focused on human rights in foreign policy, pressuring dictators to release thousands of political prisoners . He acknowledged America’s historical imperialism, pardoned Vietnam War draft evaders and relinquished control of the Panama Canal. He normalized relations with China. “I am not nominating Jimmy Carter for a place on Mount Rushmore,” Stuart Eizenstat, Carter’s domestic policy director, wrote in a 2018 book. “He was not a great president” but also not the “hapless and weak” caricature voters rejected in 1980, Eizenstat said. Rather, Carter was “good and productive” and “delivered results, many of which were realized only after he left office.” Madeleine Albright, a national security staffer for Carter and Clinton’s secretary of state, wrote in Eizenstat’s forward that Carter was “consequential and successful” and expressed hope that “perceptions will continue to evolve” about his presidency. “Our country was lucky to have him as our leader,” said Albright, who died in 2022. Jonathan Alter, who penned a comprehensive Carter biography published in 2020, said in an interview that Carter should be remembered for “an epic American life” spanning from a humble start in a home with no electricity or indoor plumbing through decades on the world stage across two centuries. “He will likely go down as one of the most misunderstood and underestimated figures in American history,” Alter told The Associated Press. A small-town start James Earl Carter Jr. was born Oct. 1, 1924, in Plains and spent his early years in nearby Archery. His family was a minority in the mostly Black community, decades before the civil rights movement played out at the dawn of Carter’s political career. Carter, who campaigned as a moderate on race relations but governed more progressively, talked often of the influence of his Black caregivers and playmates but also noted his advantages: His land-owning father sat atop Archery’s tenant-farming system and owned a main street grocery. His mother, Lillian , would become a staple of his political campaigns. Seeking to broaden his world beyond Plains and its population of fewer than 1,000 — then and now — Carter won an appointment to the U.S. Naval Academy, graduating in 1946. That same year he married Rosalynn Smith, another Plains native, a decision he considered more important than any he made as head of state. She shared his desire to see the world, sacrificing college to support his Navy career. Carter climbed in rank to lieutenant, but then his father was diagnosed with cancer, so the submarine officer set aside his ambitions of admiralty and moved the family back to Plains. His decision angered Rosalynn, even as she dived into the peanut business alongside her husband. Carter again failed to talk with his wife before his first run for office — he later called it “inconceivable” not to have consulted her on such major life decisions — but this time, she was on board. “My wife is much more political,” Carter told the AP in 2021. He won a state Senate seat in 1962 but wasn’t long for the General Assembly and its back-slapping, deal-cutting ways. He ran for governor in 1966 — losing to arch-segregationist Lester Maddox — and then immediately focused on the next campaign. Carter had spoken out against church segregation as a Baptist deacon and opposed racist “Dixiecrats” as a state senator. Yet as a local school board leader in the 1950s he had not pushed to end school segregation even after the Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education decision, despite his private support for integration. And in 1970, Carter ran for governor again as the more conservative Democrat against Carl Sanders, a wealthy businessman Carter mocked as “Cufflinks Carl.” Sanders never forgave him for anonymous, race-baiting flyers, which Carter disavowed. Ultimately, Carter won his races by attracting both Black voters and culturally conservative whites. Once in office, he was more direct. “I say to you quite frankly that the time for racial discrimination is over,” he declared in his 1971 inaugural address, setting a new standard for Southern governors that landed him on the cover of Time magazine. 'Jimmy Who?' His statehouse initiatives included environmental protection, boosting rural education and overhauling antiquated executive branch structures. He proclaimed Martin Luther King Jr. Day in the slain civil rights leader’s home state. And he decided, as he received presidential candidates in 1972, that they were no more talented than he was. In 1974, he ran Democrats’ national campaign arm. Then he declared his own candidacy for 1976. An Atlanta newspaper responded with the headline: “Jimmy Who?” The Carters and a “Peanut Brigade” of family members and Georgia supporters camped out in Iowa and New Hampshire, establishing both states as presidential proving grounds. His first Senate endorsement: a young first-termer from Delaware named Joe Biden. Yet it was Carter’s ability to navigate America’s complex racial and rural politics that cemented the nomination. He swept the Deep South that November, the last Democrat to do so, as many white Southerners shifted to Republicans in response to civil rights initiatives. A self-declared “born-again Christian,” Carter drew snickers by referring to Scripture in a Playboy magazine interview, saying he “had looked on many women with lust. I’ve committed adultery in my heart many times.” The remarks gave Ford a new foothold and television comedians pounced — including NBC’s new “Saturday Night Live” show. But voters weary of cynicism in politics found it endearing. Carter chose Minnesota Sen. Walter “Fritz” Mondale as his running mate on a “Grits and Fritz” ticket. In office, he elevated the vice presidency and the first lady’s office. Mondale’s governing partnership was a model for influential successors Al Gore, Dick Cheney and Biden. Rosalynn Carter was one of the most involved presidential spouses in history, welcomed into Cabinet meetings and huddles with lawmakers and top aides. The Carters presided with uncommon informality: He used his nickname “Jimmy” even when taking the oath of office, carried his own luggage and tried to silence the Marine Band’s “Hail to the Chief.” They bought their clothes off the rack. Carter wore a cardigan for a White House address, urging Americans to conserve energy by turning down their thermostats. Amy, the youngest of four children, attended District of Columbia public school. Washington’s social and media elite scorned their style. But the larger concern was that “he hated politics,” according to Eizenstat, leaving him nowhere to turn politically once economic turmoil and foreign policy challenges took their toll. Accomplishments, and ‘malaise’ Carter partially deregulated the airline, railroad and trucking industries and established the departments of Education and Energy, and the Federal Emergency Management Agency. He designated millions of acres of Alaska as national parks or wildlife refuges. He appointed a then-record number of women and nonwhite people to federal posts. He never had a Supreme Court nomination, but he elevated civil rights attorney Ruth Bader Ginsburg to the nation’s second highest court, positioning her for a promotion in 1993. He appointed Paul Volker, the Federal Reserve chairman whose policies would help the economy boom in the 1980s — after Carter left office. He built on Nixon’s opening with China, and though he tolerated autocrats in Asia, pushed Latin America from dictatorships to democracy. But he couldn’t immediately tame inflation or the related energy crisis. And then came Iran. After he admitted the exiled Shah of Iran to the U.S. for medical treatment, the American Embassy in Tehran was overrun in 1979 by followers of the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. Negotiations to free the hostages broke down repeatedly ahead of the failed rescue attempt. The same year, Carter signed SALT II, the new strategic arms treaty with Leonid Brezhnev of the Soviet Union, only to pull it back, impose trade sanctions and order a U.S. boycott of the Moscow Olympics after the Soviets invaded Afghanistan. Hoping to instill optimism, he delivered what the media dubbed his “malaise” speech, although he didn’t use that word. He declared the nation was suffering “a crisis of confidence.” By then, many Americans had lost confidence in the president, not themselves. Carter campaigned sparingly for reelection because of the hostage crisis, instead sending Rosalynn as Sen. Edward M. Kennedy challenged him for the Democratic nomination. Carter famously said he’d “kick his ass,” but was hobbled by Kennedy as Reagan rallied a broad coalition with “make America great again” appeals and asking voters whether they were “better off than you were four years ago.” Reagan further capitalized on Carter’s lecturing tone, eviscerating him in their lone fall debate with the quip: “There you go again.” Carter lost all but six states and Republicans rolled to a new Senate majority. Carter successfully negotiated the hostages’ freedom after the election, but in one final, bitter turn of events, Tehran waited until hours after Carter left office to let them walk free. 'A wonderful life' At 56, Carter returned to Georgia with “no idea what I would do with the rest of my life.” Four decades after launching The Carter Center, he still talked of unfinished business. “I thought when we got into politics we would have resolved everything,” Carter told the AP in 2021. “But it’s turned out to be much more long-lasting and insidious than I had thought it was. I think in general, the world itself is much more divided than in previous years.” Still, he affirmed what he said when he underwent treatment for a cancer diagnosis in his 10th decade of life. “I’m perfectly at ease with whatever comes,” he said in 2015 . “I’ve had a wonderful life. I’ve had thousands of friends, I’ve had an exciting, adventurous and gratifying existence.” ___ Former Associated Press journalist Alex Sanz contributed to this report. Bill Barrow, The Associated Press See a typo/mistake? Have a story/tip? 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House rejects Democratic efforts to force release of Matt Gaetz’s ethics reportArticle content It was the final minutes of a hard-fought hockey game between the Churchbridge Imperials and the Esterhazy Flyers, and the teams had just faced off for control of the puck. But while the Flyers were making a shot on goal, at the other end of the ice, the blade of an Esterhazy player’s skate accidentally sliced into Churchbridge Imperials captain Cole Cusitar’s neck . Within minutes, Cusitar was rushed to hospital in Esterhazy, then to Yorkton. He has now been released and cleared to continue his recovery at home — 80 stitches later — much to the relief of his family and friends. Immediately after the Dec. 7 incident, the Imperials decided that all players on their team will now wear neck protection. While use of the equipment is not mandatory for senior-level hockey in Saskatchewan, the SEHL strongly suggested all players and on-ice officials consider wearing it. “Neck guards are mandatory within Hockey Saskatchewan for all levels of hockey, except for Senior hockey, which Cole was participating in,” said Kelly McClintock, Hockey Saskatchewan’s general manager. “We have approximately 115 Senior teams, and the use of neck guards has been left to their personal choice .” Ryan Kiedrowski, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter with the World-Spectator in Moosomin, Sask. caught up with Cusitar over a cup of coffee while he was recovering at home last week. Q: First of all, how are you feeling today? A: I’m doing better, I’ve still got a little bit of swelling, a little bit of soreness, not as bad as what it was a few days ago. My left ear kind of feels like it’s frozen, a little bit of nerve damage from the cut. But I’m hoping that in the recovery process here, some of that will come back for sure. I’m so thankful to be here, having this conversation with you. You know, three quarters to an inch the other way, and it might have been a different story. Just very grateful and thankful for God and everyone who was saying prayers that night for me to be here. Q: I was wondering if you could take me back to that moment on the ice late in the third period in Esterhazy. What do you remember from that moment in the game? It’s pretty crazy how much I actually do remember. I think I probably know more than some of the people that were trying to aid me! So we were down 5-0, unfortunately, we were on a five-on-three power play, trying to make it more of a game there on the five-on-three. So I remember the ref dropped the puck and whatnot, and I looked down, and it was a little puck battle there, trying to get the draw. I get pretty low on my face offs, just to try and get a good centre of gravity. I remember it was just a little errant battle for the puck. I think (the other player) fell, I’ve heard from a couple guys that he just kind of lost his footing. His skate came up, and just kind of clipped me. At the time, it felt like I got swatted with something, I remember taking off my gloves, and I started feeling around. When I looked, I saw there was blood in my hand and some dripping on the ice, and I went, ‘oh, geez, I’m cut.’ Then I noticed that it was shooting out where that artery was nicked, and that’s when I put my hand on there. By then, the Esterhazy player on the defensive side, he was screaming at the top of his lungs to get help, get somebody out here right now. I remember telling myself, ‘well, you better get up, man, because there’s no point staying here’, so I got up, I started skating to the bench. One of my teammates came over, and he put some pressure on the wound, and he kind of guided me to the bench. I remember getting to the tunnel to go to the dressing room, and in the meantime, one of my teammates, he skated across the ice screaming for his wife, who was a nurse — her name is Katie (Putland) — she jumped into the penalty box because they had netting on the rink, so she couldn’t jump onto the ice. So she jumped into the penalty box, and they opened up the door and she ran across the ice as fast as she could. This is what I was told about, I didn’t see this in real time. So she ran across the ice. I was in the hallway trying to go to the dressing room, and I believe my trainer — Steven Shackleton — he said, ‘no, no, no, no, we got to go out that door now!’ So he pointed me to go out the door of the back of the rink. In the meantime, my assistant coach, Mark Prier, he had his truck running, the doors were open, and when I got outside, Steven and Katie had pressure on my cut, and they got me into the back of the truck, and they started driving me to the Esterhazy hospital. On the way to the hospital, I could remember my wife frantically freaking out, like, ‘is he going to be okay? Katie, is he going to be okay?’ and Katelyn was just like, ‘I don’t know, Jody. I’m just trying to maintain pressure on this cut.’ A lot of uncertainty was floating through the air, and I know in their minds at that time. So Steven and Katelyn were both applying amounts of pressure on the laceration on the way to the hospital. We got to the Esterhazy hospital, my wife ran in to get a wheelchair quickly, because I still had all my hockey gear on. In the meantime, on the way to the hospital, I know my wife was trying to get a hold of somebody at the hospital, but she couldn’t get through, but I think that’s because there were so many people phoning in already that the line was just plugged up with phone calls. So the nurses came outside, and I think it kind of even caught them off guard. I think they figured it was just another hockey player with an injury, they didn’t really understand the severity of this situation. So they came out, and they got me in as quick as they could. They then threw some gauze pads, or some kind of pads to try and put pressure on the wound. I remember sitting on the stretcher there, and Katelyn was telling me, ‘do you feel dizzy?’ and I said, ‘no, I feel good.’ ‘Do you feel nauseated?’ I said, ‘no, I don’t feel nauseated’. And she says, ‘okay, you just keep breathing; breathe in through your nose and out through your mouth; just try and keep that heart rate down.’ So we got to the hospital, they put me on one of the beds there in the hospital. The one nurse came and she just applied pressure for about a half an hour. In the meantime, they were putting IVs in me, just in case things went south. My coach and my trainer, they took off my skates, they started to cut off my jersey, they took off my shoulder pads, everything else. They kept enormous amounts of pressure on the wound. It was starting to hurt by then a bit because of the pressure, and maybe the shock was wearing off. I was starting to feel the cut a little bit more, but happy to kind of be alive in that moment. So then about a half an hour the nurses switched out, because the one nurse, she was getting a little fatigued from holding pressure on it. After they switched out nurses — it was somewhere around there — they were on the phone with the STARS medical team, and were maybe ... going to get STARS out. I do believe when that was called, they called off the hockey game, the way I’ve understood it, the way the guys have informed me. So they called off the game when STARS was called because that’s when I think everyone was under the understanding this is pretty big deal here. I remember the STARS guy was on the phone with the doctor, just trying to get some intel from her, ‘what’s going on, Doctor, what do you see?’ she says, ‘well, we can’t get the bleeding to stop’ and he says, ‘okay.’ I remember she left for a bit. The nurse just kept maintaining pressure, just having a light conversation with me. And I know my coaching staff, my trainer and Katelyn, they were all kind of looking at me, with a little bit of worry in their eyes. My wife was still holding my hand, praying. After about an hour of the nurses applying pressure, I remember the doctor came back in, and the STARS guy said, ‘can you assess the wound and give me some detail of what you’re seeing?’ They pulled back the gauze pads, and the doctor said, ‘well, actually the bleeding has really subsided. There is still some blood, but it isn’t like what it was before’. I remember the STARS guy saying, ‘well, this is good, this is very good. Tell me what you see. Tell me what you see. And we’ll assess, and we’ll make a plan from there’. She told him what was going on, what was cut? She said, ‘I think it looks like one of the smaller arteries in there was nicked, and that’s where a lot of the bleeding was coming from.’ So the STARS guy said, ‘you know what this is good that you guys got the bleeding to stop, keep pressure on it for now. It sounds like you guys will be able to get him to Yorkton, and I think Yorkton will be able to get him fixed up and get him into the recovery process.’ The doctor left the room, I think she was still on the phone with STARS, just drawing up a plan of what they should do. In the meantime, the emergency medical team came, and they were working out a plan to get me to the Yorkton facility. So they bandaged me up really good, put me on the stretcher, the EMTs come and they took me into the ambulance. My wife came with me, gave everyone some fist pumps and told them it would be okay, we left Esterhazy and went to Yorkton. We got to Yorkton, they wanted to do a quick CT scan, so they put some dye into me, I think they wanted to really see where the holes were in that artery, where some of the blood was coming from. They wheeled me into the ER side of the hospital, they put me in a room where I was met with a couple nurses. The doctor came in a little bit later — she was on call — they peeled back the wrap job they did in Esterhazy and the gauze pads. The doctor looked at it and went, ‘this is a pretty good cut, but it’s a nice, clean one for the most part’, there’s a few chewed up spots that aren’t too great, but she said, ‘for the most part, this is something we can fix you up in the morning.’ They wrapped me up, put me and my wife in a room. I don’t think she slept at all that night, she was still overwhelmed with what had happened. I had a little bit of a sleep. In the morning, I was met by my coach, Tim (Roussin). He come by and said good morning to everyone, and made sure I was doing good and give my wife a coffee. The doctor then met me and said, ‘this is what we’re going to do: We’re going to put you under for a surgical procedure. You’re going to have an anesthesiologist come in.’ And I said, ‘okay, well, that sounds good – maybe I’ll get to go to sleep here for a bit with some stitching.’ So we’re about to go in and the one OR lady came up and she says, ‘well, Cole, there’s been a little bit of a change of plans.’ I said, ‘Oh? What’s going on?’ I think at the end, it was the anesthesiologist couldn’t get to the hospital. The storm was pretty bad in our area at that point, a lot of roads were closed and everything. So they said, ‘well, we’re going to put you under local anesthetic.’ And I said, ‘oh, okay, well, what’s that?’ She said, ‘well, we’re just going to freeze you up really good, and we’ll just stitch you up.’ And I’m just like, ‘okay, right on!’ So they wheeled me into the operating room, they just started freezing everything they could, and away they went stitching. It was over an hour. The stitches went well, they took me out of there, they wheeled me into a room, and she said, ‘we’re going to keep you here for a day and overnight, just to make sure that you’re not bleeding anymore, the bandages are still intact, and hopefully by tomorrow morning, we’ll get you shipped out of here and you can go home.’ So, come Monday around dinner time, I was able to go home. Q: That seems pretty fast! It did seem a little bit quick, but I was happy to get home and see my kids and be with my wife. It’s crazy how things can happen, and how grateful a person is for everything. The guys were telling me when STARS was called and they called off the game, I know the boys were saying that they all said a prayer — linked arms and said a prayer for me — and I want to say around that time that’s, I think, when the bleeding actually subsided enough so they could assess the situation. I can’t give thanks to enough to the Big Guy up top for having his hand on me. Thanks to everyone who aided (me): Katelyn Putland, with her being the nurse that ran across the ice; Steven Shackleton, the trainer, with him just aiding me getting out of the rink and helping Katie put some pressure on that wound; Mark Prier, getting the truck ready for me to get to the hospital, and anyone who aided with the medical team. I don’t know the names of any of the people. It was so quick, it happened so fast, and I can’t thank any everyone enough for what they did. Q: The beauty of small towns — everybody tends to just come together and help immediately. There’s no balking, they jump into action. I suppose your family’s witnessed that, too, coming home Monday, I’m assuming you probably had a lot of messages and maybe some cooked meals dropped off! We certainly have! Even Sunday night after I was recovering from the stitches and just hanging out in the hospital, I finally looked at my phone around seven o’clock that night and — I don’t even remember how many it was — north of 60 direct text messages, which I caught up on. There were some guys on Facebook and other means of social media that were connecting with me; old teammates, coaches, and friends that I haven’t maybe spoken with in over a decade. It was nice to hear the support and the love coming from everyone. It’s amazing how many people come together in these situations. I wish people had come together for better means, but it was good to hear from everyone. There were a few people that swung by the house, they were just happy to see me, give me a big hug, and drop off a meal for me and the family. The hockey community is such a great community. It seems like everyone in Canada enjoys the game and everyone comes together, especially in these small communities, everyone knows everyone, and like you said, everyone pulls together in those moments. Q: Your road to recovery: What does that look like now? Do you think you’ll be on the ice this season yet, or taking a breather? I haven’t had a chance to sit with the doctor yet, but as of right now, for the healing, it’s been going good. I’m still a little swollen today, like I mentioned, a little sore, the ear’s kind of still numb from a little bit of nerve damage, hoping the recovery process can take away some of that. I haven’t had a chance to chat with the doctor, I believe I sit down with her next week, just to get an assessment of what’s going on with the cut, but I’m pretty eager to get back out there. I know it sounds crazy to some that I would actually attempt doing this again, but I love the sport of hockey. It’s something I hold dear to my heart. It’s always been there for me. It’s almost like medicine to me. I’m happy to be here, to maybe play the game again or coach it. I do a lot of coaching and playing, and I’m just happy to continue with the sport I love. Q: The SEHL has strongly suggested the use of neck guards. What would your take be on that? Our team itself is now going to accommodate all its players with Kevlar type of neck protection of their choice, which is great. I’ll be wearing one from here on out, it’s just too close for comfort (with) that kind of injury, you know? I’m happy to share this story with anyone who will listen or pay attention. I think there’s a couple other teams that are going to adopt the neck guard now. It isn’t a mandatory thing, and I’m not one of those guys that’s going to force anybody to do anything. I’m a pro-choice kind of person, but you know, anything can happen, and as quick as it happened, as crazy and as weird as it happened, a half or three quarters of an inch the other way, it could have been a different story. I might not be here having this conversation. I just hope people, before they step onto the ice, with or without one, they just have a thought like, man, you know, things can happen fast and without a piece of equipment. It’s there for a reason. Growing up as a kid, it was maybe a discomfort thing, but the technology now with the evolvement of neck protection and some of the other hockey equipment now, it’s probably a little bit more comfortable. It’s not like what it was when a guy was young, and had the dog collar neck protector on where it almost felt like it restricted a guy’s breathing a bit at times! I’m not going to force you to wear it, but it is that last line of defence if anything ever does happen. It might not stop something fully, but it’s there for a reason. Q: Speaking of the love of the game, I know you were quite instrumental in bringing the Imperials back to action in Churchbridge. I remember playing in Churchbridge over a decade ago, finished up my small Junior A career, and I was reached out to by a relative to come to Churchbridge to play some senior hockey back in 2009-2010. Unfortunately, just due to a lack of local people, the team dissolved. We had 10 or 11 local guys that could still play some pretty decent puck, and I told myself, ‘man, we should get a team again.’ It was a busy summer on the phone trying to get some guys together to come on out and get the senior team going. It was almost a deadline decision, but we got it done. This is our second season now, and it’s been a lot of fun. I think it sparked a little bit more interest for the minor sports. It sure helped the Sask East Hockey League with another team and the fans, the kids, the support we’ve had throughout these past two years has been awesome. We love going out and playing the game we love in front of our fans. I wish we had a little bit more wins in the win column than we do, but that’s something we can build on, and hopefully one day get a banner hung in our barn. Maybe some of these kids look up to us until they realize they’re just a bunch of working men that just play the sport of hockey at a little bit more intense level! But, if we can be something a kid looks up to, till they’re to the age where they can find some other people that maybe they look up to besides us. 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At a campaign event in Winston-Salem on the eve of the 1976 North Carolina Democratic primary, a voter asked then-candidate Jimmy Carter whether he was a “born again” Christian. Carter, a Southern Baptist Sunday-school teacher, replied that, yes, he was “born again,” thereby sending a legion of journalists from outside the Bible belt to their Rolodexes to figure out what in the world he was talking about. Carter sought throughout his life to act on the principles of his faith, which was defined in part by the extraordinary activism of 19th century evangelical Christians who worked assiduously on behalf of those Jesus called “the least of these.” They were involved in peace crusades and helped to organize public schools so that the children of those less affluent could become upwardly mobile. Northern evangelicals worked for the abolition of slavery. They supported prison reform and women’s suffrage. Carter’s progressive evangelicalism was very much in that tradition. He was sensitive to racial inequalities from a young age and tried to address them — as school board member, as governor and as president. He supported women’s equality, including the proposed Equal Rights Amendment. As president, Carter tried to nudge American foreign policy away from its reflexive Cold War dualism toward an emphasis on human rights. He recognized that if the United States were to have any meaningful relationship with Latin America, we needed to attenuate our colonialism, so he pushed through the ratification of the Panama Canal treaties. He advanced peace in the Middle East farther than any of his predecessors (or successors), and he appointed more women and people of color to federal office than any previous president. Many environmentalists consider him the best president ever for their cause. Carter’s failure to win reelection in 1980 devastated him. He departed Washington for Plains, Ga., at 56, the youngest president to leave office since William Howard Taft. Rosalynn was especially embittered by the election loss. In one of our interviews decades after the 1980 election, Carter told me that in the course of his frequent reassurances to his wife that they still had productive years ahead of them, he began to believe his own rhetoric. He also conceded that if he had been president for four more years, that second term would not have been nearly so fruitful as the alternative turned out to be. Carter’s post-presidency began with a middle-of-the-night idea. In addition to a presidential library, Jimmy told Rosalynn, “We can start an adjacent institution, something like Camp David, where people can come who are involved in a war. I can offer to serve as a mediator, in Atlanta or perhaps in their countries. We might also teach how to resolve or prevent conflict.” This would be an entirely new model for out-of-office presidents — a privately funded nonprofit center to advance his goals and allow him to address issues he would have pursued if he’d stayed in the White House. In a list of basic principles for the center, Carter stipulated that it would be nonpartisan and that it would not duplicate the programs of other institutions, such as the United Nations. Most important, Carter wanted an “action agency,” an institution devoted to change rather than simply “theoretical or academic analysis.” The Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum, along with the Carter Center, was dedicated in Atlanta on Oct. 1, 1986, Carter’s 62nd birthday. His faith undeniably informed every effort at the center. Carter told an interviewer in 1988 that the life of Jesus had always been his guide. “I don’t see any disharmony in this life between evangelistic effort on the one hand and benevolent care of people who suffer or who are in need on the other,” he said. “I think they are intimately tied together.” Carter understood problems afflicting the world as spiritual challenges in part, noting that industrialized Western society had failed to adopt Christian principles of concern and caring. He believed that people of privilege, and especially people of faith, bore a special responsibility for those less fortunate, for those who suffer and are deprived. “That’s where Jesus spent all his ministry,” Carter said. Piety alone wasn’t sufficient; followers of Jesus must live out their convictions with acts of charity. Early on, Carter identified access to healthcare, including mental healthcare (one of Rosalynn’s concerns), as a fundamental human right, noting at one point that 40,000 children die every day from preventable diseases. Using education and simple, low-cost methods, the Carter Center’s health initiatives addressed “neglected tropical diseases”: lymphatic filariasis, trachoma, schistosomiasis and malaria. Other programs targeted guinea worm and river blindness (onchocerciasis), extraordinary initiatives that have achieved near eradication of those diseases in regions where the Carter Center has been active. Peace and conflict resolution, the second focus of the Carter Center, built on Carter’s success in negotiating the Camp David accords. “We need to deal with other people with mutual respect,” Carter told an audience at Messiah College in 1988, “and through that kind of approach there can be peaceful resolution of differences through the use of diplomacy and negotiation, not through the use of military power.” The center conducted programs on democracy and human rights and monitored elections in dozens of countries. Carter leveraged his relationships with world leaders to mediate various disputes, including those in Guyana, Ethiopia and Serbia. In 1994, Carter convinced Kim Il Sung to open North Korea’s nuclear reactors to inspectors. In Haiti the following year, U.S. military planes were headed toward the island when Carter, together with Colin Powell and Georgia Sen. Sam Nunn, persuaded the military junta to abandon power. Carter’s persistent efforts at conflict resolution, dating back to the Camp David accords of 1978, were recognized with the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002. Jimmy and Rosalynn, who died in November 2023, extended their public service beyond the Carter Center, too — most notably with Habitat for Humanity, which Carter once described as “the most practical, tangible way I’ve ever seen to put Christian principles into action.” During one of our conversations, Carter choked up when he told of completing a house for a woman and her family who had been living in an abandoned septic tank. Carter’s alternative “second term” lasted for more than four decades. Out of the ashes of political annihilation, he became not just an elder statesman and world-renowned humanitarian but arguably the most consequential of modern former presidents. James Laney, former president of Emory University, partner of the Carter Center, offered the best and most succinct characterization of the man from Plains. Carter, Laney remarked, was “the first president to use the White House as a stepping stone.” Randall Balmer, the John Phillips Professor in Religion at Dartmouth College, is the author of “Redeemer: The Life of Jimmy Carter.”