The U.S. flag code says American flags should not be displayed upside-down except as a signal of “dire distress,” but free speech protections prevent prosecution.

TAIPEI, Jan 17 (Reuters) - The United States will not abandon its allies in the Pacific and the incoming Trump administration should renew its commitment to providing Taiwan with the means to ...

Republican Gov. Tate Reeves has ordered the U.S. and state flags in Mississippi be flown at full height on Monday during the inauguration of President Donald Trump. "This is a historic day for ...

Flags at the U.S. Capitol and in multiple states, including Ohio, will now be flown at full-staff on Inauguration Day, despite a nationwide mandate for flags to be flown at half-staff in honor of ...

Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom will temporarily raise the American Flag at the state Capitol to full height on Inauguration Day next week, joining a handful of GOP governors and ...

Several Republican governors across the U.S. are ordering state flags, which are currently being flown at half-staff following President Jimmy Carter’s death, to be raised to acknowledge Preside ...

GOP governors of at least eight states ordered flags to be flown at full-staff on President-elect Trump’s Inauguration Day, bucking tradition by raising flags before the end of a customary 30 ...

Photo: Elizabeth Frantz/Reuters House Speaker Mike Johnson ordered flags at the U.S. Capitol to fly at full-staff during Donald Trump’s inauguration after the president-elect complained about ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — Flags over Tennessee state buildings are set to fly at full-staff for the presidential inauguration of Donald Trump, putting a pause on the lowering of flags in honor ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON — The flags at the Capitol will fly at their full height when Donald Trump is sworn in as the 47th president next week, House Speaker Mike Johnson declared Tuesday. “On January 20th ...

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 ...