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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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 ...

Clinton served as a U.S. senator from New York in addition to leading the State Department during the Obama ... award.

"I got offered the freedom award from the Trump administration ... "How does Dolly Parton not have a Presidential Medal of Freedom?" Obama, 59, said he was "shocked" and added, "That's a mistake." ...

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 ...

The man is an international treasure and deserves the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Dennis and I broadcast from the same studio for Salem Communications. Expect him to have a thing or two to say ...

President Donald Trump paused his speech to address Limbaugh directly and award him the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor. “Almost every American family knows ...