Day: January 4, 2025

President Biden awarded the nation’s highest civilian honor to more than a dozen politicians, philanthropists and cultural icons during a ceremony at the White House Saturday. Nineteen people received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, including former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, conservationist Jane Goodall, science educator Bill Nye, basketball legend “Magic” Johnson, along with fashion icons Anna Wintour and Ralph Lauren. NBC News’ Aaron Gilchrist has the details.

The 2021 NFL regular season ended with the Lions earning their third victory, the Vikings firing their coach and Sam Darnold badly losing a meaningless game for Carolina, which had benched him earlier that season and would bench him to start 2022. The Lions, Vikings and Darnold missed the playoffs that year, and could have been described as woeful, frustrated and despairing. Three years later, …