The House voted overwhelmingly Tuesday to award a Congressional Gold Medal to tennis legend and equal rights advocate Billie ...

United States House of Representatives members Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania and Mikie Sherrill of New Jersey announced ...

The Dustoffs extracted 900,000 wounded U.S., Vietnamese, and allied soldiers from May 1962 to March 1973. The Army said the ...

Billie Jean King held the No. 1 ranking in women's tennis for years, and now she'll be No. 1 again, this time as the first ...

A group of Black female scientists and mathematicians known as NASA's “Hidden Figures” were honored Wednesday with ...

Ga., along with Congressman Donald Norcross D-N.J., and Congressman Austin Scott, R-Ga., have introduced a bipartisan bill that would honor former Georgia governor, former U.S. President, Navy veteran ...

All three women were honored posthumously on Wednesday, with their families attending the ceremony to accept the awards on their ... story itself." The Congressional Gold Medal was also awarded ...

Two Georgia congressmen introduced a bipartisan bill on Tuesday that would honor Georgia native former U.S. president Jimmy ...

"So today, for all their contributions to the space program and to society, it is my great honor to award these women with a Congressional Gold Medal," Johnson said. Hosted by the Speaker ...

The medal is the highest civilian award awarded by an act of Congress in recognition of distinguished achievements and ...