Colin Powell, Thurgood Marshall, B.B. King, and Hank Aaron. News of Washington receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom first surfaced in 2022, with Olympic gold medalist Simone Biles also ...

President Biden, a Catholic, awarded the medal with distinction to the pontiff ... Other recipients include Pope John Paul II and Colin L. Powell. Mr. Biden, a Catholic, has seen Pope Francis ...

The decision by Biden to recognize certain heroes in his final weeks as president sends a message of hope during an upcoming ...

President Joe Biden awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom with Distinction to Pope Francis on Saturday, granting one of ...