The tennis Hall of Famer and activist from Long Beach, who had already been awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2009 ...

Billie Jean King will become the first individual female athlete to be awarded the Congressional Gold Medal. Reps. Brian ...

The hidden figures of the space race were recognized with Congress’ highest honor at a medal ceremony on Wednesday. The ...

The House voted overwhelmingly Tuesday to award a Congressional Gold Medal to tennis legend and equal rights advocate Billie ...

Donald Trump equating the significance of the country's highest award for valor with the civilian Presidential Medal of ...

Former president Donald Trump’s flagrant violation of decorum and etiquette at Arlington National Cemetery is only the latest ...

King, who was a major advocate for the passage of Title IX in the 1970s, will be the first solo female athlete to receive the award. The measure still needs to be signed by President Joe Biden in ...

Three years after the U.S. withdrew from Afghanistan, 13 U.S. service members killed in a suicide bombing in Kabul in 2021 ...

House Speaker Mike Johnson is hosting a ceremony to posthumously present Congress' highest honor — the Congressional Gold ...

and the Presidential Medal of Freedom, a civilian honor bestowed by the president. Knauss' mother, father and stepmother attended the ceremony. Knauss was a 2016 graduate of Gibbs High School ...

Ga., along with Congressman Donald Norcross D-N.J., and Congressman Austin Scott, R-Ga., have introduced a bipartisan bill that would honor former Georgia governor, former U.S. President, Navy veteran ...