Rep. Don Beyer's efforts to secure a Congressional Gold Medal for a local civil-rights icon remain in limbo. A piece of ...

Glenn Hall, the Hall of Fame goaltender who pioneered the butterfly style while playing for the Detroit Red Wings, Chicago ...

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Even as veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan acknowledge the skill required to pull off the operation, the question ...

As the American Chemical Society enters its 150th year, C&EN recalls just some of the society’s illustrious roster of ...

On New Year’s Eve 1876, in a dusty little settlement on the Texas frontier, three Medal of Honor recipients ended up at the ...

Four Black Seminole Indian Scouts received the Medal of Honor for extraordinary acts of valor in the turbulent borderlands of ...

WWII Medal of Honor recipient Captain Willibald Bianchi of New Ulm. Bianchi was killed in the sinking of the Enoura Maru on Jan. 9, 145. His remains were identified in August 2025. He'll be buried in ...

World War II US Army Capt. Willibald Bianchi survived two chest wounds from Japanese gunfire, the Bataan Death March, wretched captivity in prisoner-of-war camps and the sinking of his first POW ...

Service members and veterans who earned the Medal of Honor for their actions will see a sizable increase in their special pensions. Their special annual pension will more than quadruple under a new ...

Image credit: Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Brandan W. Schulze/U.S. Navy via Getty Images, Getty Images In this Media Miss Minute, a former immigration judge is suing the Trump ...

MSG Earl Plumlee, a Medal of Honor recipient, said that a new law delivering a major increase to living recipients' pensions "balances the scale" between those who served the United States honorably ...