Mark your calendars, soccer fans: The FIFA World Cup 2026 starts in 500 days. FIFA expects at least 5 million fans to attend World Cup matches in the United States, Canada and Mexico, with at ...

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President Trump has just announced that the US government will be pumping $500 billion into The Stargate Project, which will have $100 billion available immediately, and will create over 100,000 ...

President Donald Trump made a bold promise to America minutes after taking the Oath of Office: pledging that an American flag would be planted on Mars. "The United States will once again consider ...

Michael M. Santiago/Getty; ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty “The Democrats are all ‘giddy’ about our magnificent American Flag potentially being at ‘half mast’ during my Inauguration,” Trump ...

There are specific holidays and events for which flags are flown at half-staff in the United States, according to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs website. They include: Memorial Day ...

because of the death of President Jimmy Carter, the Flag may, for the first time ever during an Inauguration of a future President, be at half mast. Nobody wants to see this, and no American can ...

WASHINGTON (AP) – President Donald Trump, in his first remarks as the 47th president, said he wants to send American astronauts ... the U.S. would plant its flag on Mars. Trump’s enthusiasm ...

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 ...

American flags will fly at full height at the United States Capitol and across Texas in recognition of President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration. Last week, U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson ...

Only the U.S. president, a state governor or the mayor of Washington, D.C. can order flags to fly at half-staff. Download USA TODAY's app to get to the heart of news Coast Guard finds missing ...