Former President Jimmy Carter is doing well at his Georgia home, where he has been under hospice care for three months, his family said.

Carter, 98, remains in good spirits with former First Lady Rosalynn, 95. The two host members of their family receive updates on The Carter Center’s humanitarian work around the world, and enjoy regular servings of ice cream grandson Jason Carter said.

‘They’re just meeting with family right now, but they’re doing it in the best possible way: the two of them together at home,’ Jason Carter told The Associated Press during an interview Tuesday.

The younger Carter added: ‘They’ve been together 70-plus years. They also know that they’re not in charge. Their faith is really grounding at this moment. In that way, it’s as good as it can be.’

Carter, the longest-lived U.S. president, announced in February that he would be receiving end-of-life care at his modest, one-story house in Plains, where they lived when he was first elected to the state Senate in 1962. The announcement came because the former president was in and out of the hospital several times earlier this year.

After the Carter family announced the former president would be forgoing further medical intervention, people began sending well-wishes and tributes, Jason Carter said.

‘That’s been one of the blessings of the last couple of months,’ Jason Carter said following an event Tuesday honoring the patriarch. ‘He is certainly getting to see the outpouring, and it’s been gratifying to him for sure.’

It also prompted attention to the global humanitarian work the couple has done since co-founding The Carter Center in 1982.

Jason Carter said his grandfather also continues to enjoy peanut butter ice cream.

And, despite the presidential couple’s fame, Jason Carter said they were ‘just like all of y’all’s grandparents.’

‘I mean, to the extent y’all’s grandparents are rednecks from south Georgia,’ he laughingly added. ‘If you go down there even today, next to their sink they have a little rack where they dry Ziplock bags.’

Andrew Young, who was appointed Carter’s U.N. Ambassador in 1977, told The Associated Press that he visited the Carters ‘a few weeks back.’

He was ‘very pleased we could laugh and joke about old times,’ said Young, 91.

Young, who also served as an aide to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. during the Civil Rights Movement, praised Carter’s push for unity and said he believed ‘that the world can come to Georgia and show everybody how to live together.’

Jimmy Carter will turn 99 this year. He was born on October 1, 1924

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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Former Trump campaign aide George Papadopoulos is speaking out after the long-anticipated report from Special Counsel John Durham revealed he repeatedly denied any possible collusion well before the FBI opened its doomed Trump-Russia investigation.

Durham’s report last week determined that the FBI opened its years-long ‘Crossfire Hurricane’ investigation into alleged collusion between former President Trump and the Kremlin based on ‘raw, unanalyzed and uncorroborated intelligence,’ and that it ‘reflected a noticeable departure from how it approached prior matters involving possible attempted foreign election interference plans aimed at the Clinton campaign.’

On page 252 of the report, Durham claimed the FBI recorded meetings between Papadopoulos and undercover employees, and that Papadopoulos repeatedly denied any Russian assistance to the Trump campaign, saying such activity would be ‘illegal’ and ‘treason.’

Papadopoulos also made repeated denials about the campaign’s involvement with the WikiLeaks disclosures of hacked DNC emails, but his words were dismissed as ‘weird’ and ‘rehearsed,’ the report said. Thus, his denials of collusion were not included in the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant applications to surveil former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page, Durham’s report said. 

Papadopoulos told Fox News Digital the revelation in the report ‘is the primary example of the problems surrounding the FBI leadership in 2016 – and that have continued to the present.’

‘You have a ‘target,’ me, who is explicitly saying that any work or ‘collusion’ with Russia is treason, and that I have no idea what this informant is talking about. Yet, this and other exculpatory information is intentionally withheld from the FISA court so that the FBI can continue their pre-determined plan to sabotage the Trump campaign,’ Papadopoulos said.

‘As Durham stated clearly there was absolutely no basis to launch an investigation, let alone to continue one,’ he added.

Durham argued in his report that while ‘the exclusion of the Papadopoulos statements in the Page FISA application may have been sufficient to meet a negligence standard,’ it was ‘insufficient to bring criminal charges against any FBI or Department personnel.’

During an appearance on ‘Fox News Tonight,’ Papadopoulos hailed Durham’s report as a ‘profound indictment’ on the U.S. intelligence community, telling host Will Cain that ‘heads have to roll’ for putting the country through years of unfounded Trump-Russia collusion allegations.

‘I feel ecstatic,’ he said. ‘My wife and I have been celebrating all day today because this really didn’t just tarnish my image. It also tarnished my wife’s image who really stuck with me through this entire saga from beginning until end, So I’m a very lucky guy.’

Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., consistently claimed there was strong evidence of collusion between Russia and former President Donald Trump, but those statements were contradicted by the release of Special Counsel John Durham’s report on the Trump investigation.

‘In our investigation, we saw strong evidence of collusion – the Republicans now are choosing to bury it,’ Swalwell told CNN in March 2018, eventually clarifying that he believed there is ‘clear collusion.’

Durham’s report on his investigation, released this month, showed otherwise, as it concluded intelligence agencies had no ‘actual evidence of collusion’ to justify their launch of the Trump-Russia investigation. These findings added to Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report in 2019 that concluded there was no evidence the Trump campaign engaged in a criminal plot to collude with the Russians to influence the 2016 election.

Swalwell, though, continued to push the collusion narrative in his media appearances from 2018 to 2019.

‘It’s always smelled like collusion,’ he told Politico in November 2018. ‘It doesn’t smell less like collusion. It smells more.’

The Durham report concluded the Department of Justice and FBI ‘failed to uphold their mission of strict fidelity to the law’ as it launched an investigation premised on ‘raw, unanalyzed and uncorroborated intelligence.’ 

‘In particular, there was significant reliance on investigative leads provided or funded (directly or indirectly) by Trump’s political opponents,’ the report stated. ‘The Department did not adequately examine or question these materials and the motivations of those providing them, even when at about the same time the Director of the FBI and others learned of significant and potentially contrary intelligence.’

Swalwell cited internal investigations from Democrats on the intelligence committee to claim Trump had direct involvement in collusion with the Russians. 

‘There’s circumstantial evidence that [Trump] colluded,’ he told MSNBC in March 2019. ‘The president knew the Russians were seeking to help him. So he went out as a candidate and invited them to hack more.’

These claims were never proven, and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., removed Swalwell from the committee once Republicans took control of the House this year.

Swalwell’s office did not respond to a request for comment.

An advocacy and think tank organization issued a travel advisory to California and Minnesota after lawmakers passed legislation to override out-of-state parental rights. 

The American Principles Project (APP) is warning parents across the United States of the possibility of their parental rights being stripped away as recent legislation in California and Minnesota move to give state family courts the power to take temporary emergency jurisdiction over a minor coming into the state to access sex-change drugs or surgical procedures, regardless of if the minor is traveling from another state.

‘Parents will do anything to protect our children. To lose your child and be powerless to prevent harm from coming to them would be any parent’s worst nightmare. Yet today, families traveling to California or Minnesota could be at risk for that awful scenario actually playing out — losing custody of their kids to an industry that aims to sterilize and mutilate their bodies,’ APP President Terry Schilling said in a statement. ‘It is frightening, and enraging, to think such anti-family policies have taken hold here in the United States.’

‘It is frightening, and enraging, to think such anti-family policies have taken hold here in the United States.’

— Terry Schilling, The American Principles Project President

‘While we have seen great strides throughout the country by lawmakers fighting back against this agenda, we must still be realistic about where things stand. Right now, parents traveling to both these states with their children run a very real risk of having their families ripped apart,’ Schilling added.

In September, California lawmakers passed Senate Bill 107 that established the state as a refuge for transgender children and their families. The bill was introduced earlier this year by state Sen. Scott Wiener, a Democrat. 

‘California must stand with LGBTQ kids and their families, especially when they’re under attack across the country,’ Wiener said in a statement. ‘Parents should never be separated from their kids or criminalized for simply allowing them to be who they are.’

In April, Minnesota lawmakers passed similar legislation that would establish the state as a ‘trans refuge’ for children who are seeking transgender medical procedures but who may be denied ‘gender-affirming care’ in other states.

In a party-line 68-62 vote, the Minnesota House passed HF 146, which had been introduced by Rep. Leigh Finke of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party. Finke is the state’s first transgender lawmaker. The Minnesota Senate passed the legislation by a vote of 34-30 on Friday, April 21.

Additional legislation is being considered in California, AB-957, to require family courts to ‘strongly consider that affirming the minor’s gender identity is in the best interest of the child if a nonconsenting parent objects to a name and gender marker change to affirm conform to the minor’s gender identity.’

This bill would require the court to strongly consider that affirming the minor’s gender identity is in the best interest of the child if a nonconsenting parent objects to a name and gender marker change to affirm conform to the minor’s gender identity.

Schilling is encouraging parents to get informed and get organized, warning that, ‘the left is aiming to enact similar policies at the federal level and in all 50 states.’

‘The left is aiming to enact similar policies at the federal level and in all 50 states. The only way to stop them is to make sure more Americans are informed about their plans and to defeat them electorally,’ Schilling told Fox News Digital. ‘The good news is that most voters oppose the left’s anti-family agenda, but parents must continue to make their presence felt in politics to ensure anti-family forces do not ultimately succeed.’

‘The left is aiming to enact similar policies at the federal level and in all 50 states.’

— Terry Schilling, The American Principles Project President

Schilling’s shared that there are legislators on both the federal and state levels working to fight for parental right. 

‘While more still needs to be done, it’s good to see at least some legislators are making an attempt to fight back on behalf of parents,’ Schilling said. 

In March, the Republican-majority in Congress passed the Parents Bill of Rights which, among other things, moved to dictate school’s to notify parents on the schools’ transgender student policies.

The legislation would require schools to inform parents if a school allows transgender students to participate in sports that don’t match the gender a student was given at birth. It would also require schools to tell parents if transgender students are allowed to use bathrooms that don’t correspond with the gender a student was given at birth.

Last week, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed several new bills into law, including a ban on transgender treatments for children and legislation regarding the use of pronouns in schools. 

One of the bills signed by DeSantis, SB 254, prohibits anyone under age 18 from undergoing sex-reassignment surgeries or taking prescription-based cross-sex hormones to treat gender dysphoria. The bill would also make permanent a state rule banning Medicaid from reimbursing people of all ages who undergo the procedures.  

‘This will permanently outlaw the mutilation of minors. It will outlaw the surgical procedures and experimental puberty blockers for minors,’ he said prior to signing SB 254. ‘It will also require any adults receiving these surgeries to be informed about the irreversible nature and about the dangers of the procedures. It will give the courts temporary jurisdiction to intervene and halt procedures for out-of-state children.’

Fox News’ Chris Pandolfo and Greg Norman contributed to this report.

Two Black Kansas lawmakers, one Democrat and one Republican, are taking aim at their state’s Democratic governor after she torpedoed a project that would restore and develop a significant portion of the Underground Railroad. 

Gov. Laura Kelly axed the project, which had been championed by Democratic state Rep. Marvin Robinson, after Robinson sided against the governor on key votes involving abortion and transgender athletes. Kelly used her veto to nix the project from the state budget.

The project would have received $250,000 in the next state budget for drafting a state plan to develop and make restorations to the Quindaro Ruins in Kansas City, Kansas, which Robinson represents. Quindaro was a town and a station on the Underground Railroad that helped enslaved people escape to Canada.

Robinson told Fox News Digital in an interview that Kelly’s veto was ‘cruel.’

‘To me, it was like cruel and torture, I don’t know so much about payback and all the other unfortunate terms that people used,’ Robinson said, questioning how the funding almost made its way through before it was abruptly halted by the governor.

Despite the ‘mean things that were being done during the legislative session, many by the Democrats, mostly by the Democrat-elected legislators in the House,’ Robinson told Fox News that it ‘wasn’t bigger than God.’ One of Robinson’s fellow Democrats had referred to him as a ‘house Negro’ for siding with Republicans on key votes.

Kansas Republican state Rep. Patrick Penn, who, like Robinson, is Black and helped secure the funding for the Underground Railroad project, was scathing in his rebuke of Kelly and other Democrats in the state.

‘Diversity of thought exists in the Black community just like every other. No other race has the expectation placed upon them by White liberal elites that we line up and vote for Democrats like the Black community does,’ Penn told Fox News Digital in a video interview. ‘Such bigoted expectations are both unfortunate relics of a small-minded past and simply unconscionable.’

‘Marvin Robinson, as a new state representative, has been nothing but the most integrity-filled, the most caring and gentle, and the most passionate for his people here in the House 35th District,’ he continued. ‘He cares about their vision, their values, and he votes accordingly.’

‘He understands that the Quindaro Ruins, the site and the burial grounds and everything, is a good Kansas story because it tells the story of how this state was created in 1861. It’s a free state to stand against the tyranny of racism and slavery, and that’s his passion,’ Penn added of Robinson.

‘Democrats owned Marvin’s great, great-grandfather down in Texas, so it’s no small idea that they think that they own his vote in the Kansas legislature, as well,’ Penn added. ‘Marvin showed them standing tall that they absolutely do not.’

Kelly told lawmakers in her veto message last week that the Quindaro site is a ‘fundamental piece of Kansas history,’ but noted that Republicans added the money to the budget during their final days in session this year. Kelly said the idea had not been vetted, and her veto will stand because lawmakers have adjourned for the year.

‘Advocates should work through the proper channels to seek funding for this measure and ensure that it receives the recognition it deserves,’ Kelly wrote in her message. She gave virtually the same statement to Fox News Digital when asked for comment, noting her administration ‘recognizes the importance of this culturally significant site’ and that she ‘will support efforts to elevate this fundamental piece of Kansas history and honor the surrounding community.’

Robinson told Fox News Digital that he has not spoken with Kelly since she axed the funding from the state budget, insisting she ‘had the right to do what she did.’

‘I feel kind of sorry for her because what it reflected was a very mean-spirited, almost unbelievable depth of misunderstanding’ the importance and significance of the Quindaro Ruins, Robinson said.

The Associated Press contributed to this report

The South Carolina legislature passed a six-week ‘heartbeat’ abortion restriction Tuesday that is set to be signed into law by the governor. 

The ‘Fetal Heartbeat and Protection from Abortion Act’ passed in the state Senate on Tuesday after the House passed the bill a week prior. The bill allows abortions up until a fetal heartbeat is detectable, which is at roughly six weeks. Gov. Henry McMaster, R-S.C., vowed to sign the bill.

‘The General Assembly has handled this issue in a thoughtful, transparent and collaborative manner,’ McMaster tweeted after the bill passed. ‘Tonight, our state is one step closer to protecting more innocent lives. I look forward to signing this bill into law as soon as possible.’

Physicians who violate the soon law will have their medical license revoked by the State Board of Medical Examiners and could face jail time.

The bill includes exceptions for the life of the mother and fetal anomalies. In instances of rape an incest, access to abortion would be until up to 12 weeks.

The bill also states that biological fathers will be required by the law to pay child support at the conception of their child.

McMaster called an executive order for a special legislative session to pass new abortion framework. This came after Republicans failed to pass a near-complete abortion ban in April, then agreed on a six-week restriction.

Democrats in the state last week protested the bill the House with a 12-hour delay to proceedings. 

North Carolina passed a bill into law last week that allows abortion access up until 12 weeks.