Flags will be flown at half-staff statewide from January 1-4, 2026, during a four-day period of public mourning for the ...

To honor our veterans; as a Memorial Day, Flag Day, or Fourth of July commemoration, or just as a general act of patriotism, many American motorists choose to display the Stars and Stripes as a decal ...

On the heels of a frosty winter season that brought record-low temperatures to parts of the Northeast, the sudden onset of warm weather this month has come alongside a pattern of red flag warnings ...

One of the signs of creeping old fogeyism is finding out how many of the irrefutable truths we learned as youths turned out to be false. Today's being Flag Day reminds me of yet another cardinal rule ...

Spring is here, bringing with it warmer weather and, in many parts of the U.S., red flag warnings. People in states from Minnesota to Maryland to Massachusetts saw those alerts on their weather apps ...

While most Americans are familiar with the stars and stripes of the U.S. flag, others may not know the details and symbols of the other 51 flags of the nation. Each state's flag is representative of ...

A tale of fidelity, family feud and argument over ownership is the subject of a new inquiry by the Smithsonian National Museum of American History. Old Glory, the weather-beaten 17- by 10-foot banner ...

Between 1920 and 1938, the NAACP flew a flag outside its headquarters on Fifth Avenue in New York City reading, “A man was lynched yesterday.” As black people were murdered by mobs around the country, ...