Thursday concluded six days of national rites that began in Plains, where Carter, a former Naval officer, engineer and peanut farmer, was born in 1924, lived most of his life and died after 22 months ...

The 39th president will remain at the Capitol until Thursday morning, when he is transported to Washington National Cathedral ...

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President Joe Biden honors Liz Cheney and Bennie Thompson with the Presidential Citizens Medal for their efforts in the ...

Democrat Bennie Thompson, Cheney’s co-chair on the bipartisan House investigative committee, also among 20 awarded ...

Some social media users appeared shocked by the slip-up. “Kamala Harris doesn’t know the Pledge of Allegiance! My gosh!” conservative podcast host Breanna Morello wrote on X. Others seemed ...

Kenneth J. David, who served as a radio-telephone operator during the Vietnam War, was the only living recipient of the Medal of Honor on Friday. The six others received the honor posthumously ...

The 20 awards recipients include Americans who fought for marriage equality, an Army nurse during the Vietnam War, and a war ...

Cheney, who served as vice chair of the Jan. 6 committee, had campaigned vigorously for Biden and later for Vice President Kamala Harris ... served during the Vietnam War, a war correspondent ...

She may be out of a job in three weeks but America hasn’t seen the last of failed Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris her former top adviser said. Before she leaves Washington ...