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PLAINS, Ga. (AP) — Newly married and sworn as a Naval officer, Jimmy Carter left his tiny hometown in 1946 hoping to climb the ranks and see the world. Less than a decade later, the death of his father and namesake, a merchant farmer and local politician who went by “Mr. Earl,” prompted the submariner and his wife, Rosalynn, to return to the rural life of Plains, Georgia, they thought they’d escaped. The lieutenant never would be an admiral. Instead, he became commander in chief. Years after his presidency ended in humbling defeat, he would add a Nobel Peace Prize, awarded not for his White House accomplishments but “for his decades of untiring effort to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights, and to promote economic and social development.” The life of James Earl Carter Jr., the 39th and longest-lived U.S. president, ended Sunday at the age of 100 where it began: Plains, the town of 600 that fueled his political rise, welcomed him after his fall and sustained him during 40 years of service that redefined what it means to be a former president. With the stubborn confidence of an engineer and an optimism rooted in his Baptist faith, Carter described his motivations in politics and beyond in the same way: an almost missionary zeal to solve problems and improve lives. Carter was raised amid racism, abject poverty and hard rural living — realities that shaped both his deliberate politics and emphasis on human rights. “He always felt a responsibility to help people,” said Jill Stuckey, a longtime friend of Carter's in Plains. “And when he couldn’t make change wherever he was, he decided he had to go higher.” Carter's path, a mix of happenstance and calculation , pitted moral imperatives against political pragmatism; and it defied typical labels of American politics, especially caricatures of one-term presidents as failures. “We shouldn’t judge presidents by how popular they are in their day. That's a very narrow way of assessing them," Carter biographer Jonathan Alter told the Associated Press. “We should judge them by how they changed the country and the world for the better. On that score, Jimmy Carter is not in the first rank of American presidents, but he stands up quite well.” Later in life, Carter conceded that many Americans, even those too young to remember his tenure, judged him ineffective for failing to contain inflation or interest rates, end the energy crisis or quickly bring home American hostages in Iran. He gained admirers instead for his work at The Carter Center — advocating globally for public health, human rights and democracy since 1982 — and the decades he and Rosalynn wore hardhats and swung hammers with Habitat for Humanity. Yet the common view that he was better after the Oval Office than in it annoyed Carter, and his allies relished him living long enough to see historians reassess his presidency. “He doesn’t quite fit in today’s terms” of a left-right, red-blue scoreboard, said U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, who visited the former president multiple times during his own White House bid. At various points in his political career, Carter labeled himself “progressive” or “conservative” — sometimes both at once. His most ambitious health care bill failed — perhaps one of his biggest legislative disappointments — because it didn’t go far enough to suit liberals. Republicans, especially after his 1980 defeat, cast him as a left-wing cartoon. It would be easiest to classify Carter as a centrist, Buttigieg said, “but there’s also something radical about the depth of his commitment to looking after those who are left out of society and out of the economy.” Indeed, Carter’s legacy is stitched with complexities, contradictions and evolutions — personal and political. The self-styled peacemaker was a war-trained Naval Academy graduate who promised Democratic challenger Ted Kennedy that he’d “kick his ass.” But he campaigned with a call to treat everyone with “respect and compassion and with love.” Carter vowed to restore America’s virtue after the shame of Vietnam and Watergate, and his technocratic, good-government approach didn't suit Republicans who tagged government itself as the problem. It also sometimes put Carter at odds with fellow Democrats. The result still was a notable legislative record, with wins on the environment, education, and mental health care. He dramatically expanded federally protected lands, began deregulating air travel, railroads and trucking, and he put human rights at the center of U.S. foreign policy. As a fiscal hawk, Carter added a relative pittance to the national debt, unlike successors from both parties. Carter nonetheless struggled to make his achievements resonate with the electorate he charmed in 1976. Quoting Bob Dylan and grinning enthusiastically, he had promised voters he would “never tell a lie.” Once in Washington, though, he led like a joyless engineer, insisting his ideas would become reality and he'd be rewarded politically if only he could convince enough people with facts and logic. This served him well at Camp David, where he brokered peace between Israel’s Menachem Begin and Epypt’s Anwar Sadat, an experience that later sparked the idea of The Carter Center in Atlanta. Carter's tenacity helped the center grow to a global force that monitored elections across five continents, enabled his freelance diplomacy and sent public health experts across the developing world. The center’s wins were personal for Carter, who hoped to outlive the last Guinea worm parasite, and nearly did. As president, though, the approach fell short when he urged consumers beleaguered by energy costs to turn down their thermostats. Or when he tried to be the nation’s cheerleader, beseeching Americans to overcome a collective “crisis of confidence.” Republican Ronald Reagan exploited Carter's lecturing tone with a belittling quip in their lone 1980 debate. “There you go again,” the former Hollywood actor said in response to a wonky answer from the sitting president. “The Great Communicator” outpaced Carter in all but six states. Carter later suggested he “tried to do too much, too soon” and mused that he was incompatible with Washington culture: media figures, lobbyists and Georgetown social elites who looked down on the Georgians and their inner circle as “country come to town.” Carter carefully navigated divides on race and class on his way to the Oval Office. Born Oct. 1, 1924 , Carter was raised in the mostly Black community of Archery, just outside Plains, by a progressive mother and white supremacist father. Their home had no running water or electricity but the future president still grew up with the relative advantages of a locally prominent, land-owning family in a system of Jim Crow segregation. He wrote of President Franklin Roosevelt’s towering presence and his family’s Democratic Party roots, but his father soured on FDR, and Jimmy Carter never campaigned or governed as a New Deal liberal. He offered himself as a small-town peanut farmer with an understated style, carrying his own luggage, bunking with supporters during his first presidential campaign and always using his nickname. And he began his political career in a whites-only Democratic Party. As private citizens, he and Rosalynn supported integration as early as the 1950s and believed it inevitable. Carter refused to join the White Citizens Council in Plains and spoke out in his Baptist church against denying Black people access to worship services. “This is not my house; this is not your house,” he said in a churchwide meeting, reminding fellow parishioners their sanctuary belonged to God. Yet as the appointed chairman of Sumter County schools he never pushed to desegregate, thinking it impractical after the Supreme Court’s 1954 Brown v. Board decision. And while presidential candidate Carter would hail the 1965 Voting Rights Act, signed by fellow Democrat Lyndon Johnson when Carter was a state senator, there is no record of Carter publicly supporting it at the time. Carter overcame a ballot-stuffing opponent to win his legislative seat, then lost the 1966 governor's race to an arch-segregationist. He won four years later by avoiding explicit mentions of race and campaigning to the right of his rival, who he mocked as “Cufflinks Carl” — the insult of an ascendant politician who never saw himself as part the establishment. Carter’s rural and small-town coalition in 1970 would match any victorious Republican electoral map in 2024. Once elected, though, Carter shocked his white conservative supporters — and landed on the cover of Time magazine — by declaring that “the time for racial discrimination is over.” Before making the jump to Washington, Carter befriended the family of slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., whom he’d never sought out as he eyed the governor’s office. Carter lamented his foot-dragging on school integration as a “mistake.” But he also met, conspicuously, with Alabama's segregationist Gov. George Wallace to accept his primary rival's endorsement ahead of the 1976 Democratic convention. “He very shrewdly took advantage of his own Southerness,” said Amber Roessner, a University of Tennessee professor and expert on Carter’s campaigns. A coalition of Black voters and white moderate Democrats ultimately made Carter the last Democratic presidential nominee to sweep the Deep South. Then, just as he did in Georgia, he used his power in office to appoint more non-whites than all his predecessors had, combined. He once acknowledged “the secret shame” of white Americans who didn’t fight segregation. But he also told Alter that doing more would have sacrificed his political viability – and thus everything he accomplished in office and after. King's daughter, Bernice King, described Carter as wisely “strategic” in winning higher offices to enact change. “He was a leader of conscience,” she said in an interview. Rosalynn Carter, who died on Nov. 19 at the age of 96, was identified by both husband and wife as the “more political” of the pair; she sat in on Cabinet meetings and urged him to postpone certain priorities, like pressing the Senate to relinquish control of the Panama Canal. “Let that go until the second term,” she would sometimes say. The president, recalled her former aide Kathy Cade, retorted that he was “going to do what’s right” even if “it might cut short the time I have.” Rosalynn held firm, Cade said: “She’d remind him you have to win to govern.” Carter also was the first president to appoint multiple women as Cabinet officers. Yet by his own telling, his career sprouted from chauvinism in the Carters' early marriage: He did not consult Rosalynn when deciding to move back to Plains in 1953 or before launching his state Senate bid a decade later. Many years later, he called it “inconceivable” that he didn’t confer with the woman he described as his “full partner,” at home, in government and at The Carter Center. “We developed a partnership when we were working in the farm supply business, and it continued when Jimmy got involved in politics,” Rosalynn Carter told AP in 2021. So deep was their trust that when Carter remained tethered to the White House in 1980 as 52 Americans were held hostage in Tehran, it was Rosalynn who campaigned on her husband’s behalf. “I just loved it,” she said, despite the bitterness of defeat. Fair or not, the label of a disastrous presidency had leading Democrats keep their distance, at least publicly, for many years, but Carter managed to remain relevant, writing books and weighing in on societal challenges. He lamented widening wealth gaps and the influence of money in politics. He voted for democratic socialist Bernie Sanders over Hillary Clinton in 2016, and later declared that America had devolved from fully functioning democracy to “oligarchy.” Yet looking ahead to 2020, with Sanders running again, Carter warned Democrats not to “move to a very liberal program,” lest they help re-elect President Donald Trump. Carter scolded the Republican for his serial lies and threats to democracy, and chided the U.S. establishment for misunderstanding Trump’s populist appeal. He delighted in yearly convocations with Emory University freshmen, often asking them to guess how much he’d raised in his two general election campaigns. “Zero,” he’d gesture with a smile, explaining the public financing system candidates now avoid so they can raise billions. Carter still remained quite practical in partnering with wealthy corporations and foundations to advance Carter Center programs. Carter recognized that economic woes and the Iran crisis doomed his presidency, but offered no apologies for appointing Paul Volcker as the Federal Reserve chairman whose interest rate hikes would not curb inflation until Reagan's presidency. He was proud of getting all the hostages home without starting a shooting war, even though Tehran would not free them until Reagan's Inauguration Day. “Carter didn’t look at it” as a failure, Alter emphasized. “He said, ‘They came home safely.’ And that’s what he wanted.” Well into their 90s, the Carters greeted visitors at Plains’ Maranatha Baptist Church, where he taught Sunday School and where he will have his last funeral before being buried on family property alongside Rosalynn . Carter, who made the congregation’s collection plates in his woodworking shop, still garnered headlines there, calling for women’s rights within religious institutions, many of which, he said, “subjugate” women in church and society. Carter was not one to dwell on regrets. “I am at peace with the accomplishments, regret the unrealized goals and utilize my former political position to enhance everything we do,” he wrote around his 90th birthday. The politician who had supposedly hated Washington politics also enjoyed hosting Democratic presidential contenders as public pilgrimages to Plains became advantageous again. Carter sat with Buttigieg for the final time March 1, 2020, hours before the Indiana mayor ended his campaign and endorsed eventual winner Joe Biden. “He asked me how I thought the campaign was going,” Buttigieg said, recalling that Carter flashed his signature grin and nodded along as the young candidate, born a year after Carter left office, “put the best face” on the walloping he endured the day before in South Carolina. Never breaking his smile, the 95-year-old host fired back, “I think you ought to drop out.” “So matter of fact,” Buttigieg said with a laugh. “It was somehow encouraging.” Carter had lived enough, won plenty and lost enough to take the long view. “He talked a lot about coming from nowhere,” Buttigieg said, not just to attain the presidency but to leverage “all of the instruments you have in life” and “make the world more peaceful.” In his farewell address as president, Carter said as much to the country that had embraced and rejected him. “The struggle for human rights overrides all differences of color, nation or language,” he declared. “Those who hunger for freedom, who thirst for human dignity and who suffer for the sake of justice — they are the patriots of this cause.” Carter pledged to remain engaged with and for them as he returned “home to the South where I was born and raised,” home to Plains, where that young lieutenant had indeed become “a fellow citizen of the world.” —- Bill Barrow, based in Atlanta, has covered national politics including multiple presidential campaigns for the AP since 2012.Citigroup Inc. 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Space junk has filled up so much of Earth's orbit that it's endangering satellites and astronauts. The company Kayhan Space issues roughly 1,000 space-collision warnings per day. Earth-orbit experts fear debris will cause an "unstoppable chain reaction" that cuts off launches. So much junk is filling Earth's orbit that collision avoidance has become a busy business. Advertisement "We're talking about the dead satellites , the rocket bodies, the fairings, the wrenches, the gloves, and things like that that have been left up in orbit," physicist Thomas Berger said in a press briefing at the fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union in Washington DC on December 11. Along with those recognizable objects, there are millions of bits of debris in orbit traveling faster than a bullet. Related Video How a Russian warplane hit an unarmed US drone All that stuff is building up and increasing the risk of explosive space collisions , which is dangerous for astronauts and satellites. 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Apple 2023 MacBook Pro : $1,399 (save $200 at Amazon): If you're in the market for a MacBook Pro suitable for work and study, you can save $200 on a model with 512GB of storage. This model, released in 2023, is powered by an M3 chip. Apple MacBook Pro : $1,699 (save $200 at Best Buy): You can save $200 on a 14-inch MacBook Pro at Best Buy. This option comes with 18GB of RAM and 512GB of storage. Apple MacBook Pro : $1,399 (save $200 at Best Buy): If you want to order a device from Apple's new MacBook Pro line, powered by an M4 chip and equipped with 16GB of RAM and 512GB of storage, you can save $200 at Best Buy. Three months of Apple TV, iCloud+, Apple Arcade, and Apple Music are available upon purchase. The same discount is available at B&H . Apple MacBook Air : $599 (save $100 at Walmart): If you need an affordable MacBook, you will only pay $599 for a 13-inch MacBook Air powered by Apple's M1 chip. This option comes with 256GB of storage. Apple 2024 MacBook Pro : $3,099 (save $400 at Amazon): If you need one of Apple's most powerful laptops, consider the $400 discount available on a 2024 MacBook Pro model equipped with the M4 Max chip, 36GB of RAM, and 1TB of storage. Best Black Friday iPad deals Apple iPad (9th Generation) If you need an affordable iPad and don't mind going back a few generations, you can save $130 on a classic iPad with a 10.2-inch Retina display and 64GB of storage. This is our pick for the best budget iPad overall . Apple iPad Air 11-inch : $649 (save $100 at Amazon): You can save $100 on an 11-inch iPad Air. This lightweight tablet comes with an M2 chip, a Liquid Retina display, Wi-Fi and Cellular connectivity, and 128GB of storage. Apple iPad Air 13-inch : $1,249 (save $200 at Amazon): Alternatively, you can save on a 13-inch model. The discount applies to a model with Wi-Fi and cellular connectivity alongside a massive 1TB storage capacity. Apple iPad 10.9-inch : $259 (WiFi only) (save $90 at Walmart): This base model iPad debuted in 2022 with an A14 processor, Touch ID, and compatibility with the Apple Pencil. This deal only applies to the WiFi-enabled, 64 GB configuration. Apple iPad Mini : $350 (save $149 at Amazon): Looking for a cheaper iPad? Consider the $149 discount on an iPad Mini. Apple iPad Pro : $640 (save $259 at Best Buy): We've also spotted a $259 discount on an iPad Pro at Best Buy. This renewed Wi-Fi-only model comes with 256GB of storage. More Black Friday Apple deals: iPhones, AirPods, Apple Watches, and more Apple Watch Ultra 2 Get $100 off an Apple Watch Ultra 2 at Amazon right now -- our pick for the best Apple Watch overall . This model comes with GPS and Cellular connectivity. Don't forget to apply the coupon for the best discount. Apple iPhone 16 (128GB): $0 (save $830 at Amazon): If you sign up for a Boost Mobile plan, you can pick up an iPhone 16 for free at Amazon. It is available in a range of colors. Apple iPhone 16 Pro Max : T-Mobile has provided a range of deals for the iPhone 16 Pro Max, including up to $1,000 off with a suitable trade-in when you switch. Apple AirPods Pro 2 earbuds : $154 (save $95 at Amazon): Save $95 on a pair of Apple AirPods Pro 2 earbuds with spatial audio technologies and active noise cancellation. Apple Watch Series 10 : $329 (save $70 at Walmart): There is a discount available on a Series 10 Apple Watch during Black Friday. This 46mm model comes with GPS connectivity and a Black Sport Band. The same deal is available at Amazon . Apple Watch SE : $149 (save $100 at Walmart): For only $149, you can snap up a second-generation Apple Watch SE with GPS connectivity and a Midnight sport band. Apple Watch Series 9 : $310 (save $119 at Amazon): Interested in the Apple Watch Series 9? You can save almost $120 on a 45mm GPS model. Apple 2024 iMac : $1,199 (save $100 - $150 at Amazon): If you need an upgrade to your Apple desktop PC, the 2024 iMac is now on sale for $100 off. You can save a further $50 with a coupon. Best Black Friday deals at Apple Apple iPhone deals When you buy an iPhone 14, 15, or SE at Apple, you'll receive an Apple Gift Card of up to $75. Apple MacBook deals : Snap up an Apple Gift Card worth up to $200 when you buy a MacBook Air 15-inch (M3), MacBook Air 13-inch (M3), or MacBook Air 13-inch (M2). Apple iPad deals : You will receive an Apple Gift Card worth up to $100 when you buy an iPad Pro, iPad Air, or iPad (10th generation). Apple Watch SE : Apple will give you a $50 Apple Gift Card with the purchase of this smartwatch model. Apple AirPods : You will also be eligible for an Apple Gift Card of up to $75 when you purchase a pair of AirPods Max, AirPods Pro 2, or AirPods 4 earphones. Apple TV 4K, HomePod : Apple is also offering an Apple Gift Card worth up to $50 with the purchase of a 4K Apple TV or Apple HomePod. Best Black Friday Apple accessory deals Apple AirTag four-pack If you are forever losing your keys, consider this discount on a pack of Apple's AirTag tracker, our tested pick for the best Bluetooth tracker you can buy. Apple MagSafe charger : $30 (save $9 at Amazon): A MagSafe charger suitable for Apple devices, including iPhones and AirPods, is also on sale. Apple 35W Dual USB-C Port Compact Power Adapter : $39 (save $20 at Amazon): You can save $20 on an official Apple USB-C adapter at Amazon. Apple USB-C to Lightning cable : $24 (save $5 at Amazon): A $5 discount is available on a 2m USB-C to Lightning cable. Wireless CarPlay adapter for iPhone : $50 (save $40 at Amazon): Looking to make your car smarter? Consider the $40 discount on a wireless CarPlay adapter. Apple Pencil (1st Generation) : $59 (save $40 at Amazon): We've spotted the Apple Pencil, a great accessory for drawing or note-taking, available at a 40% discount at Amazon. Apple Pencil (2nd Generation) : $80 (save $49 at Amazon): You can save almost $50 on a second-generation Apple Pencil. Apple Pencil Pro : $99 (save $30 at Walmart): If you'd like a more advanced stylus, consider the $30 discount on an Apple Pencil Pro at Walmart. FAQs Black Friday launches on Nov. 29, one day after Thanksgiving, this year in the United States. Black Friday was once just a 24-hour event, but now, the sales event carries on for days. You will likely see the best deals from Nov. 29 to Dec. 2. Cyber Monday falls on Dec. 2, 2024. This post-Black Friday event often includes new deals on tech. Apple products are rarely on sale throughout the year. While we like to list deals with at least 20% off the typical RRP, Apple promotions won't always have such steep discounts. However, you can still find some great deals on Apple iPads, iPhones, accessories, and more during Black Friday. Black Friday and Cyber Monday are very similar, but they differ in terms of timing. Black Friday launches on Nov. 29, 2024, while Cyber Monday -- which always falls on the Monday straight after Black Friday week -- will launch on Dec. 2. The days in between are often called Cyber Week. This year, we're expecting many deals to hold through Black Friday and Cyber Monday -- but if you see something you want to pick up, we'd recommend doing so sooner rather than later, in case the deal does expire or the product goes out of stock. Deciding between the Apple Watch SE and Apple Watch Series 10 depends largely on your needs. The SE is an excellent budget pick, especially for just $149 on sale. It's our pick for the best Apple Watch for first-time buyers and kids. Meanwhile, the Series 10 is our pick for the best Apple Watch for most people, with its advanced health sensors and safety features, and great battery life -- and it still has a nice discount for Black Friday. We're seeing strong Apple deals at Walmart (particularly on Apple Watches), Amazon (particularly on MacBooks), and Best Buy this Black Friday. Check multiple sites to price compare. The Apple Store does offer student and educator discounts , and military and veteran discounts . However, these wouldn't apply to Apple products purchased outside the Apple Store. At ZDNET, we only write about products we like or want to buy, and we endeavor to let you know about every deal we find that we believe offers great value. Our deal-hunting experts look for deals that are at least 20% off retail price, when possible, but we also highlight deals for products that are rarely on sale, such as Apple devices. We consider customer reviews and our own hands-on product experience and conduct extensive research to ensure we only recommend the best deals. We aim to help you shop smarter and get the best return for your money. You can enjoy the in-store Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales at major retailers like Walmart, Best Buy, and Target. However, in recent years, many shoppers have opted to make their purchases online, with Amazon becoming one of the top retailers to visit. What are the best Black Friday 2024 deals? ZDNET's experts have been searching through Black Friday sales live now to find the best discounts by category. 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On , four NFL teams will play on the holiday for the fifth consecutive season, but this year the games will be streamed on Netflix. The event will also include a star-studded halftime show featuring , who made a playful dig at the streaming platform. Beyoncé will headline the second game on Christmas Day, where the Baltimore Ravens will face off against the Houston Texans. This game is a fitting backdrop for her most recent album, ' ,' a tribute to her Texas roots and a blend of country and R&B. The megastar took to social media to promote her upcoming performance with a clip, humorously poking fun at the streaming giant that recently experienced technical issues during the fight. In the 30-second video, Beyoncé is playing a banjo while the clip lags when focused on her face as she winks. The streaming giant, in response to the recent technical issues, has made significant efforts to optimize their technology and for the Christmas Day games. I’m sending you big joy and love on this Cowboy Christmas Eve ❤️ I’ll see y’all tomorrow, in my city HTX 🤟🏽🏈🪕🌵🎄 — BEYONCÉ (@Beyonce) The Kansas City Chiefs take on the Pittsburgh Steelers at 1 p.m. ET followed by the Baltimore Ravens taking on the Houston Texans at 4:30 p.m. ET. NFL viewers can subscribe to any Netflix plan to access Wednesday's doubleheader broadcast, starting with the "standard with ads" option for $6.99 per month, up to the "premium" plan at $22.99 per month. However, there are some exceptions to this. Fans who have the NFL’s premium subscription service, NFL+, can stream each game on their mobile devices using the NFL app. Beyoncé halftime show will take place during the Baltimore Ravens vs. Houston Texans game which will begin at 4:30 p.m. ET.