House Speaker Mike Johnson has ordered that flags at the U.S. Capitol be raised to their full height on Inauguration Day.

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 ...

In 1973, President Nixon broke with tradition and put flags at full-staff during a mourning period to honor the release of American prisoners of war in Vietnam. Though it was during a period of ...