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NEWS ABOUT: Jimmy Carter

Jimmy Carter stories: 66 news summaries

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Gospel Lives in the Oval Office

New biography reflects on Billy Graham's counsel to 8 of
last 9 presidents

Aug 29, 07 12:41 PM CDT
(Newser) - Billy Graham has seen US leaders laid bare, from skinny-dipping with LBJ to long walks on the beach with GWB. A new book details the ailing 88-year-old preacher’s rendezvous with presidents past, including counseling Ford to pardon Nixon and advising Hillary Clinton to look past Monica Lewinsky. Graham’s... More »

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Hillary Clinton • Jimmy Carter • Lyndon Johnson • John F. Kennedy • religion • Billy Graham • evangelism • Richard Nixon • George HW Bush • Monica Lewinsky • Gerald Ford • George W. Bush

Castro Casts
Lot With Clinton-Obama

Ailing dictator reminisces on presidents past

Aug 28, 07 3:27 PM CDT
(Newser) - One week after both Democratic hopefuls called for democracy in Cuba, Fidel Castro has called a Hillary Clinton-Barack Obama ticket “apparently unbeatable.” A Granma editorial attributed to the ailing revolutionary—who is rumored to be dead—says the US opposition he’s faced over the years is fodder... More »

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Florida • Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • Jimmy Carter • Fidel Castro • Cuba • Bill Clinton • Election 2008 • George W. Bush

Docs Close to Stamping Out Guinea Worm

Worldwide campaign may eradicate the second disease ever

Jun 23, 07 1:42 PM CDT
(Newser) - In a campaign led by Jimmy Carter, world public health authorities have decreased the incidence of guinea worm disease (formally known as dracunculiasis) from 3.5 million cases in 1986 to just over 25,000 in 2006. Guinea worm is a parasite transmitted through water to humans that causes excruciating... More »

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health • Jimmy Carter • disease • public health • dracunculiasis • guinea worm • parasite • larvae

Teen Sex Case Takes a Turn

Judge throws out
'cruel and unusual' 10-year sentence;
AG plans to appeal

Jun 11, 07 6:10 PM CDT
(Newser) - A judge ordered a 21-year-old Georgia man freed from prison today, ruling that his 10-year sentence for aggravated child molestation—receiving consensual oral sex from a 15-year-old when he was 17—was "cruel and unusual" and that keeping him incarcerated would be a "miscarriage of justice." The... More »

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prison • Jimmy Carter • Georgia • oral sex • Genarlow Wilson • courts • child molestation

Bush, Carter, Trade Barbs

Prez 39 calls 43 worst ever; White House
fires back against "irrelevant" Carter

May 21, 07 5:11 AM CDT
(Newser) - A cold war of words is escalating between the White House and former occupant Jimmy Carter. On Saturday, Carter called the Bush administration "the worst in history" on the international front; yesterday Bush spokesman Tony Fratto shot back against the "reckless personal attack," sneering at Carter as... More »

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Bush administration • Tony Blair • Jimmy Carter • White House • president • feud • George W. Bush

Micky D Gives
Migrants a Raise

Penny-a-pound increase for tomato pickers sets industry standard

Apr 10, 07 10:50 AM CDT
(Newser) - The cent-a-pound increase McDonald's agreed to grant their tomato-picking field hands yesterday may sound like, well, pennies, but it represents a more than 70% raise, the Chicago Tribune reports. And the deal was hailed as paving the way for negotiations between migrant workers and other corporate Goliaths across the country. More »

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McDonald's • migrant workers • social responsibility • labor movement • Taco Bell • Pizza Hut • Yum Brands • Jimmy Carter • labor

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