While Hurricane Hazel buffeted Washington one day last fall, a man appeared on the roof of the U.S. Capitol, and struggled to the flagpole over the west entrance. Working in the wind and rain, he ...

The nation watched in horror as a mob stormed the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday afternoon, swarming police officers and vandalizing a federal building. Amid the chaos and sea of American flags and ...

A Trump flag was raised in place of an American flag at the U.S. Capitol on Jan 6, 2020. Why no rating on this article? This is a trending topic but has not yet been rated by Snopes for reasons we ...

American flags are back to full-staff at the U.S. Capitol in honor of Donald Trump's inauguration, breaking the U.S. flag code's guidelines for mourning the death of Jimmy Carter ...

It was “outrageous” to see a man carry the flag inside the Capitol, something not even Confederate soldiers were able to do during the Civil War, historians said.

U.S. flags have been flying at half-staff at all federal properties including the Capitol since Dec. 29, when Carter died and President Joe Biden ordered the measure of respect for 30 days ‒ the ...

Modernization Staff Association founder Ananda Bhatia and fellow staffer Anna Whitney, right, are on a mission to improve tracking for the more than 100,000 flags that fly over the Capitol each year.

During the Civil War, the Confederate Army never reached the Capitol. The rebel flag, to my knowledge, had never been flown inside the halls of Congress until Wednesday.

Flags at the U.S. Capitol will be flown at full height on Inauguration Day — before the end of a 30-day mourning period in honor of former President Jimmy Carter — House Speaker Mike Johnson ...

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said Tuesday that flags will fly at full-staff at the Capitol on the day of President-elect Trump’s inauguration and then will be lowered back to half-staff to honor ...