When Joe Foss -- then the commissioner of the upstart AFL -- sent a letter to his NFL counterpart, Pete Rozelle, in December ...

World War II veteran Walt Travis recently celebrated his 101st birthday in style with three celebrations: a private family party, an open house, and a community party at Westmont of […] ...

MONTREAL, Jan. 16, 2025 /CNW/ - The Honourable Manon Jeannotte, Lieutenant Governor of Quebec, wishes to highlight a special ceremony held to honour 38 citizens from the Greater Montreal area ...

Singer Dolly Parton declined receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom three times, twice from U.S. President-elect Donald Trump, and once from U.S. President Joe Biden. Parton revealed that she had ...

A Jan. 4 Instagram post (direct link, archive link) shows an apparent screenshot answering a question about the country’s highest civilian honor. “Can a president rescind the medal of freedom ...

President Joe Biden awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom with distinction, the nation's highest civilian honor, to Pope Francis on Saturday. The medal was scheduled to be presented to the ...

The White House announced the honor after Mr. Biden spoke to Pope Francis on Saturday and informed him of the award. It was the first time during Mr. Biden’s term that he had awarded the medal ...

S. Civilians: ineligible. Three months after the eligibility order was issued occurred the Paris flight of Charles Augustus Lindbergh which “through the wildest stretch of the imagination ...

Biden Awards Pope Francis Medal of Freedom, Highest US Civilian Honor By Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden spoke with Pope Francis on Saturday and awarded him the ...

WASHINGTON, Jan 11 (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden spoke with Pope Francis on Saturday and awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom with Distinction, the nation's highest civilian honor ...

President Herzog awarded the Presidential Medal of Honor to a group of Jewish and non-Jewish Diaspora leaders in recognition of their long-term defense of Israel, battle against antisemitism ...

But he never received the Medal of Honor. Civil rights groups and friends of the late veteran — who died in 1992, two months shy of his 96th birthday — say he deserved the nation’s highest ...