If confirmed, Austin would be the first Black person to lead the Pentagon. In picking Austin, Biden has chosen a barrier-breaking former four-star officer who was the first Black general to command an Army division in combat and the first to oversee an entire theater of operations. Austin...
President Joe Biden awarded the Medal of Honor on Wednesday to two Civil War Army soldiers amid questions about his political future in the wake of last week’s CNN presidential debate. The president detailed the stories of Philip Shadrach and George Wilson, who infiltrated a Confederate train ...