In 1942 Congress created the U.S. Flag Code which provides guidelines for the display and care of the flag. Flags should always hang freely but never with the stars down, except as a distress signal.

Boise flies the Pride flag despite a state law banning most flags on public property. Legal scholars say there needs to be a criminal penalty for something to be a crime. Cities use policy ...

but under U.S. flag code, Memorial Day observances require the flag to be flown at full-staff after noon as a way of paying tribute to fallen soldiers, and to honor the sacrifices that they made ...

Although the American flag will proudly wave in various ways across the nation on June 14, the 248-year-old origin story of Flag Day tends to fall quiet as the day is nestled between Memorial Day ...

BOSTON (WWLP) – Governor Maura Healey has ordered all U.S. and Massachusetts flags to be lowered to half-staff on Friday. The order was issued to honor the life and legacy of former State ...

A warning has been issued by HMRC for workers to scrutinise the codes on their letters, as employees could be owed up to £700 each. Research by Canada Life suggests that one in three Brits has ...

MILLVALE, Pa. (AP) — How do you conserve 80-year-old murals that have accumulated decades’ worth of soot, salt and other deterioration? Slowly and carefully, using everything from scientific ...

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