America’s final salute for former US President Jimmy Carter started on Saturday with a tribute to him outside his family’s farm as the old farm bell rang 39 times in his honour. His six-day state funeral began in Americus at the Phoebe Sumter Medical Center,

The former president’s casket began its last journey, winding its way from Americus, Georgia, to Atlanta, before heading to Washington.

As they filed into the front pews at Washington National Cathedral, wearing dark suits and mostly solemn faces, five current and former presidents came together for Jimmy Carter's funeral. For a service that stretched more than an hour,

Former President Jimmy Carter’s national funeral service will take place Thursday, two days after his casket arrived at the U.S. Capitol to lie in state.

Bond markets will be open, but for reduced hours, closing early at 2 p.m. ET, according to a recommendation from the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association. Carter's remains will be taken to the Washington National Cathedral in Washington,

Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter was honored with the pageantry of a funeral in the nation’s capital before a second service in his tiny Georgia hometown that launched a Depression-era farm boy to t