The U.S. State Department’s “One Flag Policy” mandates that only the American flag — except for specific instances, such as the POW/MIA flag — be flown at U.S. embassies around the world.

The American and Jackson flags at the top of City Hall's flagpole have surely seen better days. The tattered American flag is partially ripped, looking as if it was raised after a long battle.

This matter specifically concerned the very top portion of some .gov websites displaying a small, icon-sized American flag with the words, "An official website of the United States government." ...

A Russian man who sought asylum in the U.S. three years ago sparked global praise for rescuing an American flag from a burning home during the California wildfires. Sultan Ramazanov was driving ...

A woman was arrested on Thursday after she took down an American flag and placed it on the muddy ground at a California park, replacing it with a Mexican flag. Kern County deputies responded to ...

A female activist threatened park rangers in a profanity-laced fury as they took her into custody for allegedly tearing down an American flag and replacing it with a Mexican one at a California ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

died the day after Christmas in 1972, he did what anyone who respected history, protocol and the office of president would do. He ordered American flags lowered in Truman's honor. More ...

Since U.S. flag code states that no flag should fly higher than the American flag on the same pole or nearby, state flags get lowered during those periods, too. According to Biden's proclamation ...