Jimmy Carter, President | featured news

When President Obama steps onto the debate stage Wednesday night in Denver, he'll seek to avoid what might be called "incumbents opening debate syndrome." Presidents seeking re-election have often struggled in their first debates: Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush. Two of those wound up winning re-election anyway; two lost.

Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter is released from Cleveland hospital after 2-day stay for viral infection.

An airport spokeswoman in Cleveland says former President Jimmy Carter was taken off the plane by rescue crews and taken to a hospital.

The ex-president gives a sense of day-to-day life in the Oval Office — and plays the blame game. Presidents Jimmy Carter and Herbert Hoover might be bracketed together for a number of reasons.

Former President Jimmy Carter is leaving North Korea Friday with a U.S. citizen who's been held there since January, according to the Carter Center in Atlanta, Georgia.