WASHINGTON — In the East Room of the White House on a particularly frigid Saturday afternoon, President Joe Biden bestowed ...

The Presidential Medal of Freedom is the United States’ highest civilian honour, often given in recognition of a body of work over a person’s lifetime.

Nineteen people were honoured with the US' highest civilian award at a White House ceremony on Jan 4. Read more at ...

Rep. Eli Crane has proposed awarding the highest civilian honor Congress can grant to a man acquitted of choking to death a ...

President Joe Biden is bestowing the second highest civilian award on Liz Cheney and Bennie Thompson — the lawmakers who led the congressional investigation into the violent Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol ...

It was Carter who called for that boycott — a Cold War power play intended to express America’s disdain for the Soviet ...

Dianne Feinstein. With Butler, Lee teamed up to pass one of the final bills of the 118th Congress, awarding the Congressional ...

Longtime Lee resident Mary Schaefer Simmons received a Congressional Gold Medal posthumously, recognizing her time as a welder at the Brooklyn Navy Yard during World War II.

The Everett Alvarez, Jr. Congressional Gold Medal Act, authored by Rep. Jimmy Panetta to honor the Salinas native and Vietnam ...

Look at him now. Simpson spent part of last November in Reykjavik, Iceland, where he put on a show while winning gold medals in the 2024 International Powerlifting Federation (IPF) World Open ...

President Biden signed into law S.4243 on Dec. 12 to become Public Law 118-150, that authorizes a congressional gold medal to posthumously recognize Shirley Chisholm. On May 2, 2023, Sen.

The last time Ottawa hosted the World Juniors, in 2009, Canada won its record-tying fifth consecutive gold medal in large part to Jordan Eberle's late-game heroics in the semifinals against Russia, ...