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

The award comes after Biden was forced to cancel a trip to the Vatican this weekend to monitor the devastating wildfires in ...

President Joe Biden awarded Pope Francis with the Presidential Medal of Freedom with Distinction, the highest U.S. civilian honor, the White House announced on Saturday. Biden, the nation's second ...

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President Joe Biden awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom with distinction, the nation's highest civilian honor, to Pope ...

Unlike that of his only Catholic predecessor in the job, John F. Kennedy, Biden’s Catholicism, White said, “was embedded both ...

In a striking juxtaposition, President Biden awarded the Medal of Freedom to both Cecile Richards, former Planned Parenthood ...

(Bloomberg) -- Joe Biden awarded a Presidential Medal of Freedom to Pope Francis, a personal marker of his Roman Catholic faith after devastating fires in California prompted the president to cancel a ...

Former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton joined actors Denzel Washington and Michael J Fox as they also received the ...

There was tremendous, albeit unintentional, cultural clarity in two late-term actions Joe Biden took before the end of his presidency. Call it the tale of two medals.

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

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Saturday honored Pope Francis with the Presidential Medal of Freedom with distinction, the highest civilian award given by the president, saying the pontiff ...