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Donald Trump has announced his first recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest US civilian honor. As well as posthumous recognition for Elvis Presley and Babe Ruth, the list includes the wife of a major Republican donor and the longest-serving Republican senator in US history. Trump cancels US cemetery visit as diplomatic embarrassments mount Read more Trump will also posthumously recognize the late supreme court justice Antonin Scalia, a conservative forerunner of Trump appointees Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh. The Utah senator Orrin Hatch, who is retiring after more than 41 years in Congress, also receives a medal. Miriam Adelson, 72, is a doctor who is married to the casino magnate Sheldon Adelson. In a citation released by the White House, she was lauded for her medical work, her research and her work in combating substance abuse. Sheldon Adelson, 85 and according to Forbes the 14th-richest person in America in 2017, gave Trump’s campaign $82m during the 2016 election. He has since been a major driver of Trump administration middle-eastern policy, including the switch of the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem earlier this year, the abandonment of the Iran deal and the installation of the hawkish John Bolton as Trump’s third national security adviser. His wife’s citation added: “As a committed member of the American Jewish community, she has supported Jewish schools, Holocaust memorial organizations, Friends of the Israel Defense Forces, and Birthright Israel, among other causes.” Two former NFL players are also recognised: former Dallas Cowboys quarterback Roger Staubach and Alan Page, who began a legal career after leaving the NFL.

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During Terry Branstad's last news conference as governor, Lt. Gov. Kim Reynolds, who became state government's first female chief executive last year, is finding that old stereotypes sometimes die hard in politics. She gave the women a pep talk, urging them to unlock their full potential and to use every opportunity available to learn and network. She told how a man walked up to her husband and asked what Senate seat he was running for. "It's not me running for the state Senate," her husband explained. It's my wife." He was just mortified," Reynolds said. Last summer, when she and her husband attended an event sponsored by the National Governors Association in Rhode Island, someone talked with the couple, clearly thinking Kevin Reynolds was a governor, and asked him what state he was from. In Iowa this year, there are more women running for office than any other time in the state's history, Carrie Chapman Catt Center for Women in Politics at Iowa State University found. She became governor in May 2017 after more than six years as lieutenant governor when former Gov.