The promised return of “common sense” to America will have lots of people squealing. Already there are people complaining that the most common-sensical things of all are somehow a problem. Take the ...

It is amazing that the State Department’s “one flag” directive could be controversial. Even more amazing is how we got here ...

When the USA first sent astronauts to the Moon on Apollo 11, they wanted to plant an American flag on the surface. The problem was that a regular flag would look somewhat disappointing, as the Moon ...

Fire officials estimate 1,000 structures have been destroyed. Amid the rubble of a damaged mobile home park, an American flag stood strong. The fire erupted on Tuesday afternoon near the Palisades ...

That timeline overlaps the Jan. 20 inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump and adds another layer of history ... the first American prisoners of war released from Vietnam. Flags were returned ...

Since U.S. flag code states that no flag should fly higher than the American flag on the same pole or nearby, state flags get lowered during those periods, too. How long will flags be lowered?

By Clarissa-Jan Lim President-elect Donald Trump railed against the order for American flags to be flown at half-staff to honor the late President Jimmy Carter, complaining that they will be in ...

Washington: President-elect Donald Trump has complained that American flags will still be lowered to half-mast in honour of the late president Jimmy Carter during Trump’s January 20 inauguration.

Taking umbrage with the decision, Mr Trump accused his political rivals of being “giddy” about the flags being lowered as he is sworn in, adding: “No American can be happy about it.” ...

The president-elect claimed it will mark the first-ever such occurrence, but U.S. flags previously flew at half-staff during Richard Nixon's 1973 inauguration Bailey Richards is a writer-reporter ...

A row has broken out in New York State's Nassau County after Republican County Executive Bruce Blakeman allegedly ignored a request to lower American flags to half-staff on county buildings as a ...