President Barack Obama named 21 recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honor in the nation, on Wednesday, according to a White House press release. Suggested Reading ...

WASHINGTON (WLS) -- U.S. President Barack Obama honored some of Chicago's heroes with the Presidential Medal of Freedom on Tuesday. Chicago Bulls legend Michael Jordan and FCC Chairman Newton Minow ...

World War Two Polish resistance fighter and Georgetown scholar Jan Karski (G’52, H’83) will be awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, President Barack Obama announced this morning. Karski had ...

President Bill Clinton presented the 11-time Grammy winner (and Oscar winner, member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Pulitzer Prize Special Citation recipient, etc.) with a Kennedy Center Honor in ...

President Barack Obama announced Thursday he was awarding retiring University of Tennessee women's basketball coach Pat Summitt the Presidential Medal of Freedom—the country's highest civilian honor. ...