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Trump announces top civilian honour for teen lifeguard who saved boy at California beach

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US President Donald Trump on Tuesday announced that a 16-year-old lifeguard who rescued a 10-year-old boy from powerful waves off a California beach will be invited to the White House and awarded a "high civilian honour."

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"We're going to bring this heroic young man, and his family, into the White House with, perhaps, the boy he saved, to give him a High Civilian Honor. Very brave, he deserves it!" Trump wrote on Truth Social.

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