House Speaker Mike Johnson will honor U.S. Army Ranger veterans who served in World War II with a Congressional Gold Medal ceremony.

Tennis great Billie Jean King will preside over the 136th Rose Parade as grand marshal next year.

The hidden figures of the space race have been recognized with Congress’ highest honor at a medal ceremony.

For decades, their mission in World War II was top secret.

The House has unanimously passed a bill posthumously awarding the Congressional Gold Medal to Emmett Till, the Chicago teenager murdered by white supremacists in the 1950s, and his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley.

Two American heroes have been honored with the highest recognition in the land, both receiving a Congressional Gold Medal.

Congress has bestowed its highest honor on merchant mariners who fought in World War II, almost eight decades after the conflict in which more than 8,000 of them were killed.

The Senate has passed a bill to award the Congressional Gold Medal posthumously to Emmett Till, the Chicago teenager murdered by white supremacists in the 1950s, and his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley.

The last living parent of any of the four Black girls killed in the 1963 Alabama church bombing has died.

The unit that spent months marching and fighting behind enemy lines in Burma has been approved to receive the Congressional Gold Medal, Congress' highest honor. In February 1944, the American jungle fighting unit nicknamed Merrill's Marauders set out to capture a Japanese-held airfield and open an Allied supply route between India and China. Now the Marauders, officially designated by the Army as the 5307th Composite Unit (Provisional), have been approved by Congress to be awarded its highest honor: the Congressional Gold Medal. A single medal honoring the Marauders as a unit will be crafted and given to the Smithsonian Institution. He still says the Burma mission was the toughest of them all.

WASHINGTON – Congress has awarded the Congressional Gold Medal, its highest honor, to surviving crew members of the USS Indianapolis, the ship that delivered key components of the first nuclear bomb and was later sunk by Japan during World War II. So to her crew members who are still standing watch: Your Congress and your nation say thank you.'' He called the crew members ”among the best the United States Navy has to offer.'' None of the crew members would call himself a hero, Toti added, "but they would all say they served in a crew of heroes.'' The crew members epitomized the Navy's ethos of service above self, Braithwaite said.