In order to reach remote fires in the State Responsibility Area, CAL FIRE maintains a fleet of firefighting aircraft, many of ...

The first Americans awarded the Distinguished Service Cross, the second-highest U.S. valor award for combat, were two nurses ...

Early in his presidency, in May 1977, then-President Jimmy Carter gave a commencement speech at the University of Notre Dame ...

President Joe Biden has awarded the Medal of Honor to military recipients who displayed heroism and self-sacrifice in combat ...

A bomb placed on board Air India flight 182 by Sikh militants exploded off the Kerry/West Cork coast on June 23, 1985 and ...

In a separate Oval Office ceremony closed to the news media, Biden will award the Medal of Valor to eight first responders who put their own lives at risk to save others.

Army Pfc. Kenneth J. David drew enemy fire to save the wounded. Capt. Hugh R. Nelson Jr. was killed while using his body to ...

But he campaigned with a call to treat everyone with “respect and compassion and with love.” Carter vowed to restore ...

The 39th occupant of the Oval Office was unpopular when he was booted out by voters, but his career after the White House ...

Jimmy Carter was sworn in as the 39th president of the United States in January 1977 at age 52. On his first full day in ...

Given Washington's reputation, it's hard to fathom an era when Carter wasn't a winner here. But in 1976 and 1980, Republicans ...