The Battle of Gettysburg, too, was explicitly a family affair. Many families sent soldiers who fought on opposite sides, ...

President-elect Trump has won at least one battle in advance of Monday’s inauguration ceremony. Flags at the U.S. Capitol ...

before the 30-day mark to honor the first American prisoners of war released from Vietnam. The celebration lasted a day before the flags were returned to half-staff for the rest of the mourning ...

The flags are at half-staff due to the death of former President Jimmy Carter. House Speaker Mike Johnson said he is going to order that the flags at the Capitol, which are at half-staff due to ...

With less than a week until Inauguration Day, President-elect Trump got his wish for flags to be raised next Monday. American flags on public and government buildings are supposed to be flying at ...

A day after Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott announced they would order flags currently at half-staff in their states in honor of the late President Jimmy Carter to full-staff for ...

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) on Monday ordered the state’s flags be raised to full-staff on Inauguration Day, as President-elect Trump enters his second term in the White House. The move disrupts ...

WASHINGTON − At the request of President-elect Donald Trump, House Speaker Mike Johnson is suspending a 30-day mourning period for former President Jimmy Carter to allow flags at the U.S ...

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Monday announced that flags at the state Capitol building in Austin and at all state office buildings will be raised to full-staff next Monday, Jan. 20, to mark President ...

Flags at federal and state government agencies across the nation are flying at half-staff, and were set to return to full on Jan. 29. This may not be the case in some states. After the death of a ...

After the death of a former president, federal statutes typically mandate that flags be flown at half-staff for 30 days. In the case of Jimmy Carter, who died Dec. 29 at 100, that tradition will ...