WASHINGTON — The U.S. Senate confirmed former Texas Congressman John Ratcliffe to serve as the next director of the CIA on Thursday.

(From left) Jill Biden, US President Joe Biden, US President-elect Donald Trump and former First Lady Melania Trump at the North Portico of the White House ahead of the 60th presidential inauguration ...

In the 1970s, a conservative coalition came together to fight ceding control of the Panama Canal—proving the political ...

Jimmy Carter was the first politician to get me excited about politics ... 10% for independent candidate John Anderson, and 10% undecided — showed that fully half of the undecided voters ...

After the passing of the 39th President of the United States, Jimmy Carter, we take a look back at 10 defining moments from his time in the White House.

Jonathan Martin is POLITICO’s senior political ... and Texas a different breed, anyway. A farmer, a Southern Baptist and a native of South Georgia with the accent to match, Carter was ...

making her one of the youngest children to live there since John F. Kennedy's children were younger than 5 when he took office. Jimmy Carter was clearly a Democrat, and some wonder about Amy Carter's ...

But for the many wonderful years that followed, friendship bonded us as no two presidents since John Adams and Thomas Jefferson." Carter won the 1976 presidential election against Ford, but the ...

For my entire career, it’s seemed, the Republican Party has run against Jimmy Carter. From my novice reporter days in Texas beginning ... Iran — was a stunning political failure but a greater ...

Carter was widely known as a man of faith, with his post-presidency defined by images of the Baptist Sunday School teacher building homes for low-income people.

As the sun set outside the Capitol, Vice President Kamala Harris, House Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Majority Leader John Thune — none of whom were old enough to vote in Carter's first ...

The first events reflect Carter’s climb up the political ladder, from the tiny town of Plains, Georgia, to decades on the global stage as a humanitarian and advocate for democracy. Here is ...