WASHINGTON (AP) President Barack Obama will award the Presidential Medal of Freedom to 16 people, including political ally Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, tennis legend Billie Jean King and Archbishop ...

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Mitt Romney, R-Utah. Biden himself received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2017 during the final days of the Obama ...

President Obama honored 21 "extraordinary Americans" including Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Robert DeNiro and Ellen DeGeneres with the Presidential Medal of Freedom on Tuesday at the White House. Photo: Getty ...

An curved arrow pointing right. President Obama moved Ellen DeGeneres to tears with an impassioned speech, before presenting her with the Medal of Freedom. Obama praised Ellen's courage for coming ...

Last December, during an appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, the late night host had jokingly asked Obama: "How does Dolly Parton not have a Presidential Medal of Freedom?" ...

President Biden bestowed 19 individuals with the nation's highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom. The recipients hail from nearly all corners of American life, actors ...

Former NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson is seen after President Barack Obama presented her with the Presidential Medal of Freedom on Nov. 24, 2015, during a ceremony in the East Room of the White ...

In 2017 President Barack Obama surprised Biden, his vice president at the time, by awarding him with a Presidential Medal of Freedom. A stunned Biden immediately turned away from the crowd that ...

Pope Francis has gifted the Presidential Medal of Freedom awarded to him by former U.S. President Joe Biden to the metropolitan cathedral of Buenos Aires. The medal is the highest honor given to a ...