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The order outlines that, aside from the stars and stripes, the only flags which are permitted to fly are the Prisoner of War/Missing in Action, officially recognized as a national symbol by ...

“The U.S. flag is a powerful symbol of pride and it is fitting and respectful that only the U.S. flag be flown or displayed at U.S. facilities, both domestically and abroad,” it said. MD ...

Before the European Union, before the Treaty of Rome, there was Benelux. The trailblazing economic union of Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg paved the way for the European project that followed ...

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 ...

MORROW, Ohio (WCMH) — An Ohio school district has rejected a policy that would’ve restricted which flags and symbols can be displayed in the classroom, a proposal opponents said was meant to ...

(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 ...

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 ...

MORROW, Ohio (WCMH) — An Ohio school district has rejected a policy that would’ve restricted which flags and symbols can be displayed in the classroom, a proposal opponents said was meant to ban ...

It's a unique situation because of the timing of the death of the late President Jimmy Carter, which prompted flags to be flown ... Stripes should fly high as a symbol of freedom and democracy ...