Singer Dolly Parton declined receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom three times, twice from U.S. President-elect Donald ...

President Biden, a Catholic, awarded the medal with distinction to the pontiff, to whom he has turned for personal guidance.

Bradley Birkenfeld, a former banker for the Swiss bank UBS, never got the Medal of Freedom, and there’s no evidence he was Trump’s campaign manager.

Functionally, there is no difference between the US's Medal of Freedom and the Order of Lenin awards handed out by the old ...

Humanitarian and chef José Andrés spoke out Tuesday after President Donald Trump claimed he had "fired" Andrés from the ...

Biden, the nation's second Catholic president, spoke with the pontiff to name him a recipient of the award, the White House ...

President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden exit a Medal of Freedom ceremony in the White House on Jan. 4. (Annabelle Gordon for The Washington Post) The Post’s Jan. 5 report on the ...

For just the third time since 1994, someone has earned a Presidential Medal of Freedom with distinction. The last person to ...

COMMENTARY: Pope Francis, on Jan. 11, became the third pope to be given the highest civilian honor in the U.S.

Dallas County Sheriff Mike Knoedl was awarded the inaugural Arkansas Medal of Freedom by Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders last week.

The White House said President Biden bestowed the award to Pope Francis during a phone call in which they also discussed ...

U.S. President Joe Biden spoke with Pope Francis on Saturday and awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom with ...