BREAKING: Former President Jimmy Carter dies at 100

<p>In this Sunday, Nov. 3, 2019, file photo, former President Jimmy Carter teaches Sunday school at Maranatha Baptist Church, in Plains, Ga. Nearly four decades after he left office and despite a body that’s failing after 95 years, the nation’s oldest-ever ex-president still teaches Sunday school roughly twice monthly at the church. <strong>(AP Photo/John Amis, File)</strong></p>

In this Sunday, Nov. 3, 2019, file photo, former President Jimmy Carter teaches Sunday school at Maranatha Baptist Church, in Plains, Ga. Nearly four decades after he left office and despite a body that’s failing after 95 years, the nation’s oldest-ever ex-president still teaches Sunday school roughly twice monthly at the church. (AP Photo/John Amis, File)

Jimmy Carter, the 39th President of the United States, has died at 100, according to the Associated Press (AP). 

Carter, the longest-lived American president, died Sunday, Dec. 29 after entering hospice care more than a year ago. He died in his home in his Georgia home where he and his wife Rosalynn had lived. Rosalynn died in Nov. 2023. 

The former president "leveraged his ambitions with a keen intellect, deep religious faith and prodigious work ethic," according to AP.

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