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Wednesday, June 19, 2013 | 10:48 p.m.

Jimmy Carter Headlines

A list of the most recent stories about Jimmy Carter.

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FILE - In this June 6, 2013, file photo, a woman talks on the phone outside the U.S. Courthouse in Washington, where the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court resides. The obscure oversight board that President Barack Obama wants to scrutinize the National Security Agency’s secret surveillance system is little known for good reason. The U.S. Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board has operated fitfully during its eight years of its low-profile existence, stymied by Congressional in-fighting and its work at times censored by government lawyers. The privacy board planned to meet privately Wednesday, June 19, 2013, in its first meeting since revelations that the NSA has been secretly collecting the phone records of millions of Americans: It was closed to the public. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen, File)

Oversight board concerned about NSA surveillance

The chairman of the federal oversight board that President Barack Obama said will meet with him to discuss the National Security Agency's secret surveillance program said Wednesday that the group has numerous concerns about the operation and plans to publish a report after a full inquiry. David Medine, who heads ...

  • Updated: 7:41 p.m. Wednesday, June 19, 2013

Washington's copy of the Constitution on display

George Washington's personal, annotated copy of the Constitution will be on display beginning Friday for a limited time at the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library & Museum in Atlanta, part of a traveling exhibit among the 13 presidential libraries. The book, known as "The Acts of Congress," is considered among the ...

  • Updated: 5:51 p.m. Thursday, June 6, 2013
FILE - This April 5, 2013 file photo shows former Interior Secretary Ken Salazar during an interview with The Associated Press in his office at the Interior Department in Washington. Salazar announced Thursday, June 6, 2013 that he is joining WimerHale as a partner and will open a law office in Denver. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)

Ken Salazar to work for int'l law firm in Denver

Former U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar will start work next week as a partner in an international law firm that will allow him to remain in his home state and work on cases involving the energy industry he once regulated. The former U.S. senator and Colorado attorney general announced Thursday ...

  • Updated: 5:05 p.m. Thursday, June 6, 2013

WILL D. CAMPBELL, MAVERICK MINISTER AND CIVIL RIGHTS STALWART, DIES AT 88

c.2013 New York Times News Service The Rev. Will D. Campbell, a renegade preacher and author who joined the civil rights struggle in the 1950s, quit organized religion and fought injustice with nonviolent protests and a storyteller’s arsenal of autobiographical tales and fictional histories, died Monday night in Nashville, Tenn. ...

  • Updated: 11:21 p.m. Tuesday, June 4, 2013

Court backs border-state gun sale reporting rule

A federal appeals court panel Friday unanimously upheld an Obama administration requirement that dealers in Southwestern border states report when customers buy multiple high-powered rifles. The firearms industry trade group, the National Shooting Sports Foundation, and two Arizona gun sellers had argued that the administration overstepped its legal authority in ...

  • Updated: 3:55 p.m. Friday, May 31, 2013

Jimmy Carter speaks to hundreds in northeast Pa.

Former President Jimmy Carter says he now has a different title: No. 1 latrine builder. The 88-year-old visited a Revolutionary War monument in northeastern Pennsylvania on Tuesday to promote his foundation's efforts to develop peace and fight disease. He and his 85-year-old wife, Rosalynn, also hosted a fundraising dinner in ...

  • Updated: 7:46 a.m. Wednesday, May 29, 2013
This May 23, 2008 photo provided by the Civil War Trust, shows a plaque marking the battlefield of Brandy Station that sits on private property which the trust is attempting to acquire, in Brandy Station, Va. Atlanta band Granville Automatic is preparing to release a music video filmed inside an ice cream shop on the site of the 1864 battle that left Atlanta in flames during the American Civil War. The music project is part of a broader effort to raise awareness about Civil War battlefields across the country. This month, the trust began one of its largest ever fund-raising efforts to acquire and protect a key part of the Brandy Station Battlefield in Virginia. (AP Photo/Courtesy of the Civil War Trust)

Ga. band works to save Civil War battlefield sites

Atlanta band Granville Automatic is preparing to release a music video filmed at an ice cream shop on the site of the 1864 battle that left the city in flames during the Civil War. The project is part of an effort to raise awareness about Civil War battlefields across the ...

  • Updated: 11:21 a.m. Sunday, May 26, 2013
This undated image from video released by PBS shows host Tavis Smiley, right, during an interview with Hillary Rodham Clinton on "Tavis Smiley Reports." Smiley, who’s marking his 10th year this month as host of his PBS talk show and his 20th year in broadcasting. (AP Photo/PBS)

Tavis Smiley marks 10th year on PBS

Tavis Smiley has stood out in 20 years in broadcasting, and he has no intention of changing his style or substance. He's the rare black host with national TV and radio platforms, one who sees his job as challenging Americans to examine their assumptions on such thorny issues as poverty, ...

  • Updated: 8:49 p.m. Friday, May 24, 2013
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