America's three-time Tour de France winner will receive the Congressional Gold Medal, an honor on par with the Presidential ...

Greg LeMond, who is one of the most decorated cyclists in American history as a three-time Tour de France winner, has been ...

Three-time Tour de France winner Greg LeMond, center, is joined by his wife Kathy LeMond, right, while being presented the ...

The Presidential Medal of Freedom is equivalent to the Congressional Gold Medal, although the former can be awarded “with distinction,” a higher degree of award that has only been presented 55 ...

Conversely, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, created by President Harry S. Truman in 1945, is often given to recipients who reflect a president's "political and personal interests," according to ...

John Wardell, 99, as he and U.S. Army Ranger veterans from World War II were honored with the Congressional Gold Medal on ...

Joseph Drake, 100, of Hawley, is one of five surviving U.S. Army Rangers who served in World War II. He received a ...

Nearly 80 years after scaling barbed wire fences in Nazi-occupied Poland and jumping from moving trains in search of freedom ...

Congressional medal for Freedom Riders long overdue . We lost John Lewis, a fellow Georgian, in 2020. He was 21 when he was with the Freedom Riders.

Former Trump chief of staff and retired Marine Gen. John Kelly rejected former President Donald Trump’s comments that the Presidential Medal of Freedom that honors civilians was “much better ...