Former president Jimmy Carter has died.

That's where we're starting The Seven from the Washington Post.

I'm Hannah Jewell. It's Monday, December 30th.

Let's get you caught up with today's seven stories.

Jimmy Carter was elected president in 1976. Before that, he was a small-town peanut farmer,

a U.S. Navy veteran, and the governor of Georgia. As president, he oversaw peace accords between

Egypt and Israel. He granted diplomatic recognition to China, and he made human rights

a central theme of U.S. foreign policy.

He was also ahead of his time on environmental issues. He installed solar panels on the roof

of the West Wing in 1979. But Carter was turned out of office by disillusioned voters after a

single term. His presidency had been marred by

stagflation. That term was used by critics to attack the low growth and high inflation of his

presidency. And in 1979, 52 Americans were taken hostage at the U.S. Embassy in Iran's capital.

They were not released until the day he left office in 1980.

But Carter lived an extraordinary post-presidential life. He dedicated his time to public service and

diplomacy. He helped build thousands of homes for poor people, and he won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002.

In his Peace Prize lecture, he spoke out against war and inequality. Ladies and gentlemen, war may sometimes be a necessary evil, but no matter how

necessary, it is always evil, never a good.

We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.

Carter also wrote 33 books on topics ranging from war to woodworking,

and he continued to live modestly at his home in Plains, Georgia until the end of his life. His son said he died yesterday at his family

home. His wife Rosalind died last year. At a hundred years old, Carter was the oldest living

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