Also in today’s newsletter, Trump backs Mike Johnson for Speaker and what foreign allies are saying about Marco Rubio

Following Jimmy Carter’s death at the age of 100, his funeral will be first for a Democratic president in more than half a century

Carter signed treaties to hand over the Panama Canal and criticized Israel, drawing respect and fury past his one term

President-elect Donald Trump hailed Florida state Rep. Hillary Cassel’s announcement that she’s switching from the Democrat Party to the Republican Party.

Following Florida Democrats’ losses on Election Day, a second state lawmaker has announced she’s switching her party affiliation and joining the Republican caucus

Former President Carter is expected to lie in state at the Capitol next week after congressional leaders announced Monday they intend to ask the House and Senate to pass resolutions allowing it. Su…

UN security council holds minute’s silence in honour of former US president Jimmy Carter

On Monday, the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq announced it would be closed on Jan. 9 in observance of the death of former President Jimmy Carter.

President-elect praised Carter as a ‘truly good man’ in U-turn from past rhetoric in their long thorny relationship

(Bloomberg) — US stock markets will close Jan. 9, in observance of a national day of mourning for former President Jimmy Carter.Most Read from BloombergMigrant Crisis Pushed US Homelessness to Record High in 2024The New York Stock Exchange, Nasdaq Inc.’s US equities exchanges and Cboe Global Markets Inc. will shut, the companies said. CME Group Inc., operator of US-based equity and interest-rates markets, had not yet commented on its plans.The closures are part of a long-standing American tradi

Musicians and actors pay tribute to the three-time Grammy award winning former US president who died on Sunday