(NEXSTAR) — Flags across the U.S. are meant to be at half-staff for another eight days, but they were at full staff in Washington, D.C. on Monday. Why was the nation’s capital in defiance of a ...

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 ...

OLYMPIA, Wash. — Washington state and United States flags will be raised to full-staff Monday, Jan. 20, before being lowered back to half-staff in honor of former President Jimmy Carter.

It is Inauguration Day and while today's ceremonies will celebrate the peaceful transition of power in the United States, some flags across the country will remain at half-staff during the ...

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 ...

The live blog for Inauguration Day can be found here. President-elect Donald Trump will take office on Monday, and will do so with flags at full-staff above the United States Capitol. Trump will ...

Gov. Kathy Hochul has ordered all flags in the State of New York to be raised to full-staff for Donald Trump’s inauguration as the 47th US president. Flags are currently flying at half-staff ...

On Inauguration Day 2025, some flags will remain at half-staff in honor of deceased former President Jimmy Carter, while others will be raised to full-staff for incoming President Donald Trump.

To mark the death of former president Jimmy Carter, President Joe Biden declared flags be displayed at half-staff for 30 days to mourn him “as an expression of public sorrow.” That 30-day ...

After some controversy over whether flags should fly at full-staff on Inauguration Day, President Donald Trump issued an executive order on the topic Monday. In one of his first actions as ...

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, a Democrat, has ordered flags in the state to fly at full-staff on Monday for the inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump as the nation remains in a mourning ...

Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin has ordered U.S. and Virginia flags to fly at full-staff on Monday, in honor of President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration. The order makes Virginia the latest ...