With less than a week until Inauguration Day, President-elect Trump got his wish for flags to be raised next Monday. In a proclamation issued Dec. 29, President Joe Biden ordered flags across the ...

With the inauguration on Jan. 20 ... The hiatus only lasted a day, and flags went back to half-staff thereafter for eight days. Flags had also been at half-staff when Nixon was sworn in for ...

House Speaker Mike Johnson had ordered flags raised at the U.S. Capitol, where the swearing-in ceremony took place. "In honor of Inauguration Day and everything good and noble that it represents ...

However, one detail about Inauguration Day has been causing debate among Congress and state leaders, and that is whether the American flag will be raised. According to the U.S. Flag Code ...

House Speaker Mike Johnson on Tuesday ordered that flags at the U.S. Capitol be raised to their full height on Inauguration Day, pausing a 30-day flag-lowering order following the death of former ...

Greg Abbott announced on Monday he will order flags outside all state buildings to be at full staff on Jan. 20 in honor of Inauguration Day, according to a news release from the governor's office.

North Carolina has joined some other states that will raise flags to full staff on President-elect Donald Trump's Inauguration Day, despite the traditional mourning period following a former ...

One of Trump’s first actions as president was to order flags to fly at full staff on his Inauguration Day and all future presidential inaugurations. I went to the Washington Monument the next ...

Greg Abbott cited a federal statute stating that “the U.S. flag be displayed especially on...Inauguration Day, January 20." Here is the governor’s full statement on his new order issued Monday ...