Olympic gymnast Gabby Douglas has been named to the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Hall of Fame. The three-time Olympic Champion ...

The Department of History's Edda Fields-Black has been named a recipient of the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for her research on Harriet Tubman.

Marie Howe's “New and Selected Poems” won for poetry, and composer-percussionist Susie Ibarra's “Sky Islands,” an eight-piece ...

Percival Everett’s novel “James,” his radical re-imagining of “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” from the perspective of ...

The Pulitzers also honored Ann Telnaes, who quit the Washington Post after the news outlet refused to run her editorial cartoon lampooning tech chiefs.

In 1995, former US President Bill Clinton awarded Senator Nelson the Presidential Medal of Freedom, for his role as the Earth Day founder. The Earth Day Network says the day is to mark the ...

In the first quarter of 2025, fintech startups globally raised a combined $10.3 billion — marking the highest level of funding since the first quarter of 2023, according to CB Insights research.

Sen. Gaylord Nelson started Earth Day in 1970. The event helped increase public support for the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to address environmental issues. Earth Day has ...

The Franklin Institute recently announced the nine recipients of the 2023 Franklin Institute ... Zare, Ph.D., Stanford University Zare is going to receive the 2023 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Chemistry ...

For Idalia Nieves-Reyes, a treasured photo of Pope Francis was her anchor. The framed photo was among the belongings she packed in her luggage when she moved from Puerto Rico to the U.S. mainland ...