Donald Trump and Kamala Harris will meet for the first time since the US election at the funeral of former president Jimmy Carter in Washington on Thursday.

President Joe Biden will deliver a eulogy at Washington National Cathedral. Several former presidents, including President-elect Donald Trump, are expected to attend.

Leading a cohort of next-generation Southern leaders in both parties, Carter grafted the region back on the national map by repudiating Jim Crow, firmly and finally extinguishing George Wallace as a political force and assembling a fearsome, if fleeting, biracial general election coalition.

Decades ago, Jimmy Carter engineered the creation of the modern Education Department. On the heels of his death, the agency's future is threatened.

Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter will be honored Thursday with the pageantry of a funeral in the nation’s capital and second service in his tiny Georgia hometown that launched a Depression-era farm boy to the world stage.

President-elect Donald Trump on Sunday said the nation owes former President Jimmy Carter “a debt of gratitude.” In a post on his Truth Social platform, Trump said the 39th president,

The disturbing incident unfolded in front of the Ulysses S. Grant Memorial just before 5:30 p.m. – at the same time Trump, 78, was arriving at the Capitol Building.

"Nobody wants to see this, and no American can be happy about it," Trump said of the US flag flying at half-staff during his inauguration.

The nation pauses to honor Jimmy Carter for his service as a naval officer, governor and president, and his four decades of humanitarian work after leaving the White House.

The moral compass that Jimmy Carter followed in his century here on earth strikes a powerful contrasting chord to the incoming president, Donald Trump.

President-elect Donald Trump paid his respects to former President Jimmy Carter on Wednesday at the Capitol Rotunda.