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Languages: English. You can get in touch with Hugh by emailing [email protected] President Trump's State Department has enacted a "one flag policy," banning U.S. embassies and overseas ...

The U.S. State Department has adopted a new policy under the Trump administration that effectively blocks U.S. embassies and outposts from flying Pride and Black Lives Matter flags, a report said ...

According to U.S. flag code, "all federal buildings, grounds and naval vessels" will fly at half-staff for 30 days after the death of a president Win McNamee/Getty; MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty ...

lifting a 30-day flag-lowering order that had been in place following the death of former President Jimmy Carter on Dec. 29 at the age of 100. Johnson's directive came just days after a similar ...

The president’s Inaugural Address linked landing on the Red Planet with Manifest Destiny, but left many of the specifics unclear. By Kenneth Chang During his Inaugural Address on Monday ...

Per tradition, flags are flown at half-staff for 30 days following the death of a president. Carter died on December 29 at the age of 100. Though the flags were meant to be flown at half-staff ...

(NEXSTAR) — Flags across the U.S. are meant to be at half-staff for another eight days, but they were at full staff in Washington, D.C. on Monday. Why was the nation’s capital in defiance of a ...

House Speaker Mike Johnson did Trump a favor on Jan. 20 by defying U.S. flag code at the Capitol and pausing Carter's mourning period Win McNamee/Getty; MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty; Jessica McGowan ...

The debate had raged in recent days as flags flew at half-staff in honor of the life and legacy of former President Jimmy Carter, who died at the age of 100 in late December. In accordance with U ...

To mark the death of former president Jimmy Carter, President Joe Biden declared flags be displayed at half-staff for 30 days to mourn him “as an expression of public sorrow.” That 30-day ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. – The NYPD Blue Chips youth sports program hosted its flag football citywide championship game at St. Peter’s Boys High School in New Brighton Saturday afternoon ...