Sorenstam sad over dark day but no regrets over award yahoo.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from yahoo.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
In the wake of the Jan. 6 storming of the U.S. Capitol by Trump supporters, many questioned whether the ceremony to award the nation's highest civilian honor should have even taken place or if the recipients should have attended. Sorenstam, speaking in a Golf Channel interview, said she was fulfilling a commitment by attending a White House ceremony that was originally scheduled for last year but was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Nick Ut: Why I Accepted Trump s Medal Of Arts
By Nick Ut
On 01/13/21 at 9:22 PM EST
The day before photographer Nick Ut was scheduled to receive the Medal of Arts from Donald Trump, another famous soon-to-be medal recipient publicly declined the honor: Bill Belichick, head coach of the New England Patriots and long-time friend of the president. Belichick, who was scheduled to receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom the same week that Ut was to be honored, cited the tragic events of the Capitol riot as his reason for turning down the award.
Ut, however, was undeterred.
Born in Vietnam and a photographer for AP for more than 50 years until his retirement in 2017, Ut saw the medal ceremony as a highly personal, not political, moment and a capstone to his long and storied career. While he is most famous for his Pulitzer-Prize winning photo of children fleeing a napalm attack the picture, with a young naked girl screaming in
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Sheldon Adelson s Wife: Meet Miriam Adelson, The Billionaire Widow And Republican Megadonor
01/12/21 AT 7:00 PM
Billionaire businessman Sheldon Adelson, who died Tuesday due to complications from non-Hodgkin s lymphoma, drew ample media attention in recent years for his deep-pocket support for Republicans and Israel.
Adelson s wife, who has mostly remained out of public view, is expected to manage her husband’s $35 billion fortune.
She already had a big hand in controlling it, according to some.
Miriam Adelson has seldom made headlines on her own, though she saw the spotlight in 2018 when President Trump awarded her the Presidential Medal of Freedom. The decision to give her the highest civilian honor immediately drew controversy because of its transactional nature.