Jimmy Carter"s casket arrives at Capitol The horse-drawn caisson carrying Jimmy Carter’s casket has arrived at the US Capitol, where the former president will lie in state until Thursday. Kamala Harris is expected to deliver a eulogy to the former Democratic leader shortly. Closing summary This live coverage is ending now, thanks for following along. You can find the latest stories here. Here is a summary of the key recent developments: Funeral services for the late president Jimmy Carter continued today with a service at the US Capitol Rotunda, where Senate majority leader John Thune, House speaker Mike Johnson and vice-president Kamala Harris deliverd euolgies. In her speech, Harris touched on the Democratic president’s progressive accomplishments as Republicans prepare to take over the statehouse in under two weeks. At a press conference convened at his Mar-a-Lago resort, Donald Trump signaled that he was serious about the United States gaining control over Greenland, the Panama Canal and Canada. He refused to rule out using military force to put Washington in charge of the two former areas, but said “economic force” could be used to merge with America’s northern neighbor. He also proposed renaming the Gulf of Mexico to the “Gulf of America”. In response, Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau said there’s not “a snowball’s chance in hell” of Canada merging with the US and Greenland’s prime miinister Mute B. Egede said “Greenland belongs to the people of Greenland.” Trump-appointed federal judge Aileen Cannon has temporarily prevented the release of justice department special counsel Jack Smith’s report into his two failed attempts to bring Trump to trial on charges related to trying to overturn the 2020 election and hiding classified material. The president-elect called her decision “great news”. A New York appeals court judge denied Donald Trump’s request to delay this week’s sentencing in his hush money case. Meta ended factchecking on Facebook, which the company’s leaders acknowledged was a reaction to Trump’s return to power. Enrique Tarrio, a leader of the Proud Boys militia group who is serving a 22-year sentence after being convicted of seditious conspiracy, asked Trump for a pardon. The Republican-led House has passed its first bill of the new Congress that would require the Department of Homeland Security to take into custody undocumented immigrants charged with certain crimes. With Donald Trump’s son visiting Greenland today, sparking renewed attention on the president-elect’s past comments that he would like to acquire the Danish-governed island for the United States, the prime minister of Greenland has released a statement rejecting Trump’s advances. “Greenland belongs to the people of Greenland,” prime minister Múte B Egede said. “Our future and fight for independence is our business.” At a press conference at Mar-a-Lago earlier today, Trump said, “We need Greenland for national security purposes.” Kamala Harris eulogizes late president Jimmy Carter Kamala Harris eulogized late president Jimmy Carter at a service in the US Capitol Rotunda this afternoon, in a speech that touched on the Democratic president’s progressive accomplishments as Republicans prepare to take over the statehouse in under two weeks. Alongside praising the work Carter did after his presidency, the vice-president also noted the policies Carter championed during his time in the Oval Office – including establishing national parks, instituting full diplomatic relations with China and securing the Camp David Accords between Israel and Egypt. “I vividly recall how my mother admired him, how much she admired his strength of character, his honesty, his integrity, his work ethic and determination, his intelligence and his generosity of spirit,” Harris said, adding that she was in middle school when Carter was elected. “Jimmy Carter was a forward-looking president with a vision for the future,” she later added, noting Carter’s work to establish the Environmental Protection Agency, Federal Emergency Management Agency and Department of Education. “Throughout his life and career, Jimmy Carter retained a fundamental decency and humility,” Harris said. “He lived his faith, he served the people and he left the world better than he found it.” House speaker Mike Johnson has eulogized late president Jimmy Carter, praising Carter’s patriotism, thrift and military service. Johnson also reflected on Carter’s work with Habitat for Humanity and against infectious diseases, emphasizing the role of Carter’s faith in his humanitarian work. In his eulogy for late president Jimmy Carter, Senate majority leader John Thune praised the legacy Carter left after his presidency, including his work at the Carter Center and with Habitat for Humanity. The US Capitol funeral service for late president Jimmy Carter has begun with an invocation from Chaplain of the US Senate Barry C Black. Senate majority leader John Thune, House speaker Mike Johnson and vice-president Kamala Harris will share eulogies next. Jimmy Carter’s casket has arrived at the US Capitol following a funeral procession designed to mirror the former president’s inaugural parade, where Carter and his family walked from the Capitol to the White House on 20 January 1977. Carter’s grandchildren served as honorary pallbearers and the United States army band Pershing’s Own performed as a horse-drawn caisson transported the flag-draped casket along Pennsylvania and Constitution Avenues. Military body bearers will shortly carry Carter’s casket into the Capitol Rotunda, where members of Congress, foreign dignitaries, supreme court justices and others have begun gathering to pay their respects. Senate majority leader John Thune, House speaker Mike Johnson and vice-president Kamala Harris will deliver eulogies during the service. The Carter family has invited the public to pay their respects from 6 pm to midnight. Jimmy Carter"s casket arrives at Capitol The horse-drawn caisson carrying Jimmy Carter’s casket has arrived at the US Capitol, where the former president will lie in state until Thursday. Kamala Harris is expected to deliver a eulogy to the former Democratic leader shortly. Senate Democrats are pushing back against at least two of Donald Trump’s cabinet nominees in advance of their confirmation hearings, the Washington Post reports. Speaking to reporters after a meeting with Tulsi Gabbard, Trump’s pick for director of national intellgience, Senator Mark R Warner told reporters that he had more questions after speaking with Gabbard than before. He added that he would not agree to a confirmation hearing until Gabbard’s FBI background check and other paperwork had been submitted. “Listen, these are important positions. The independence of the intelligence community, the ability to share information with our allies. I had a meeting with Ms. Gabbard today. I asked a number of questions. I got more questions,” Warner said. “I take great pride on this intel committee that’s been bipartisan. We do it the same way … no matter which team’s in the majority, and everyone will get a fair hearing.” Meanwhile, in a 33-page letter, Massachusetts senator Elizabeth Warren asked Fox News host Pete Hegseth, who Trump has tapped to lead the Department of Defense, to answer more than 70 questions ahead of his confirmation hearing, including regarding allegations of heavy drinking, sexual misconduct and mismanagement of veterans’ organizations he oversaw. Spectators have gathered in Washington DC to witness former President Jimmy Carter’s State Funeral Procession. Carter’s flag-draped casket was transferred from the US Navy Memorial before traveling to the US Capitol, where Carter will lie in state until Thursday. Trudeau says not "a snowball’s chance in hell" of Canada merging with the United States Canada’s outgoing prime minister Justin Trudeau strongly rejected the idea of his country joining the United States, after Donald Trump said he would use “economic force” to merge the two nations during a press conference today. Writing on X, Trudeau said: There isn’t a snowball’s chance in hell that Canada would become part of the United States. Workers and communities in both our countries benefit from being each other’s biggest trading and security partner. Jimmy Carter’s casket is on its way to the US Capitol, where it will lie in state until Thursday, when a funeral is scheduled at the National Cathedral in Washington DC. Kamala Harris is scheduled to this afternoon at 4.30pm eulogize the former president at the Capitol. Meta’s decision to end fact-checking on Facebook and Instagram marks a new, more partisan era for the social media titan, the Guardian’s Blake Montgomery writes in an analysis: Meta is shifting to the right, following the prevailing political winds blowing through the United States. A more partisan era now looms for the social media giant and its corporate leaders, though Mark Zuckerberg himself has few personal politics other than ambition. On Tuesday morning, Meta disbanded Facebook and Instagram’s third-party factchecking program. The company will also recommend more political content across its social networks. CEO Zuckerberg announced the changes as he attempts to curry favor with Donald Trump’s incoming administration, demonstrating just how far he will go to win the president-elect’s approval. “Recent elections also feel like a cultural tipping point towards once again prioritizing speech,” he said in a video posted on Instagram. “Factcheckers have just been too politically biased.” Amazon is shelling out $40m to license a documentary about Melania Trump, plus follow-up episodes in a series about the incoming first lady, Puck reports. The documentary is directed by Brett Ratner, who is known for the Rush Hour and X-Men movie series but hasn’t had a major release since sexual assault allegations were made against him in 2017. Here’s more on the deal, from Puck: But I’ve also learned that Amazon is paying a cool $40 million to license the film, per three sources familiar with the deal. That price includes the Ratner documentary, which will get a small theatrical release and then appear on Prime Video, plus a previously undisclosed two-to-three-episode follow-up docuseries on the first lady. Melania will participate in both projects. (Amazon declined to comment.) That’s quite a payday for Mrs. Trump, who is serving as an executive producer alongside Argentine producer Fernando Sulichin, who has worked with Oliver Stone on several projects, including Stone’s The Putin Interviews, which featured several sit-downs with Vladimir Putin. Music stars and big public figures can often generate eight-figure fees for participatory documentaries. And indeed, I’m told both Disney and Paramount bid for streaming rights to the Melania project. But Amazon outbid them both (neither Netflix nor Apple bid), and is paying the outsize fee for a limited license, not ownership. It’s unclear how much the first lady is personally being paid to participate and “produce” this project while her husband is in office, but I’m betting it’s a big chunk of that $40 million. Meta’s decision to end factchecking on Facebook comes as it adds a close associate of Donald Trump to its board of directors. Here’s more, from the Associated Press: Meta has appointed three new members to its board of directors, including Dana White, the president and CEO of Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) and a familiar figure in the orbit of the incoming president, Donald Trump. The social media company, which owns Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, is also adding the auto tycoon John Elkann and the tech investor Charlie Songhurst, Meta’s CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, said in a Facebook post late on Monday. Tapping White to join the board is Zuckerberg’s latest maneuver to improve ties with Trump, who was once banned from Facebook. After Trump won re-election in November, Zuckerberg dined at the president-elect’s Mar-a-Lago club in Florida, gifting him a pair of Meta Ray-Ban smart glasses, and Meta donated $1m to Trump’s inauguration fund. Other big tech companies such as Amazon have donated similar amounts. Meta has also promoted its most prominent conservative, Joel Kaplan, to the company’s top policy job in another move meant to strengthen connections to conservatives. The Senate foreign relations committee has scheduled a meeting for next Wednesday to consider Florida senator Marco Rubio, whom Donald Trump has tapped to be his secretary of state, the Washington Post is reporting. A hearing for New York congresswoman Elise Stefanik, Trump’s pick for US ambassador to the UN, is scheduled for the following day, according to CNN.