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Former President Jimmy Carter received fond birthday wishes Sunday from President Joe Biden, with the soon-to-depart White House octogenarian telling him, “Mr. President, I admire you so darn much.” “Your hopeful vision of our country, your commitment to a better world, and your unwavering belief in the power of human goodness continues to be a guiding light for all of us,” Biden said in a birthday message released to CBS News. The current president cited Carter, who was president of the United States from 1977 to 1981, as “one of the most influential statesmen in our history,” for his work...

Guiding Light, television’s longest running soap opera, ended a 72-year run on Friday, closing a chapter of American media history long after its mainstay audience of housewives had moved on. The show began as a 15-minute radio programme on NBC Radio in 1937 and was one of the few programmes that thrived in its transition to television on the CBS network by 1952. The show was considered ahead of its time by confronting heady social issues: alcoholism, rape, disease. By the 1980s, the template of the soaps – the intermingling of the public and private lives of its characters, big...

CBS announced Wednesday the cancellation of the longest-running scripted program in broadcasting history, the soap opera “Guiding Light.” The show has been on radio and television for 72 years, beginning on NBC radio in 1937 and moving to CBS television in 1952.