An curved arrow pointing right. President Obama moved Ellen DeGeneres to tears with an impassioned speech, before presenting her with the Medal of Freedom. Obama praised Ellen's courage for coming ...

Ellen DeGeneres is an American television ... President Barack Obama awarded DeGeneres with the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2016. She has the most awards for the Mark Twain Prize and the ...

In an emotionally charged ceremony, President Barack Obama has awarded Ellen DeGeneres America’s ... “Barack Obama just awarded me the Medal of Freedom,” she wrote. “I hope it serves ...

The first Hispanic woman to launch into space is now the second female astronaut to be awarded the United States' highest honor. Ellen Ochoa, who later directed NASA's Johnson Space Center in ...

La Mesa native Ellen Ochoa, the first Hispanic woman to travel in space, was one of 19 Americans who received this year’s Presidential Medal of Freedom at a White House ceremony on Friday.