The family of Jim Thorpe will accept the Presidential Medal of Freedom on his behalf. The award comes more than a century ...

Col. Ralph Puckett, Jr., the last surviving Medal of Honor recipient from the Korean War, was honored with a ceremony in the ...

Col. Ralph Puckett Jr.'s cremated remains lay in honor at the U.S. Capitol on Monday -- joining the rare company of the ...

Clarice Lafreniere of Independence and dozens of female WWII defense workers during World War II received the nation’s ...

During a graduation ceremony at University of Oklahoma, Keith will be awarded an honorary degree. He's one of four people to ...

Eudaemonia, then, is more of a state of being, a mindset, than an end goal. Zeno defined happiness as a “good flow of life, ...

During our 50-year anniversary celebrations, we take a closer look at one of the sport's greatest players: Vicki Cardwell.

Analysts and polls indicate the party once led by Nelson Mandela could lose its parliamentary majority for the first time.

Dressed in a powder blue caftan, Sieka Gatabaki meets me in his Nairobi’s Lavington driveway looking like the heir apparent to a wizened African traditional king. All that is missing is a Sankofa…and ...

American Emma Bates is hoping to improve on last year's fifth-place finish when she lines up for the Boston Marathon on ...