Here's what to know about why flags are lowered when a president dies, who can issue that order and how long the process ...

President-elect Donald Trump has expressed frustration that flags will be flying at half-staff when he takes office later this month.Related video above ... from Chapin, South Carolina, and ...

A state panel has decided where a monument memorializing Civil War hero Robert Smalls will stand on the South Carolina State ...

A bipartisan panel of South Carolina lawmakers chose a visible area close to the Statehouse visitor's entrance for the ...

"Pre-filed” bills offer a window into how South Carolina Republicans are planning to use their newly minted supermajorities ...

Flags were returned to half-staff the next day and stayed there for another eight days. State flags are lowered along with federal orders. U.S. flag code says no other flag should fly higher ...

MADISON (WKBT) -- Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers (D) signed Executive Order 251 on Friday ordering all United States and Wisconsin state flags be at half-staff on Saturday in honor of former State Sen.

Yet there is one state capital in the USA that has made a conscious decision to go without either a McDonald's restaurant or a Starbucks store within its city limits. Montpelier, the capital of ...

The city of Gwangju on Friday hung the flag of the US state of Virginia outside City Hall, in apparent defiance to President Yoon Suk Yeol and in support for his arrest on insurrection and power ...

The FBI says it recovered the stark black banner of the Islamic State extremist group from the truck that an American man from Texas smashed into New Year's partygoers in New Orleans' French ...

An Islamic State flag attached to the pickup truck used to kill and injure dozens of people in New Orleans is a grim reminder of the persistent threat posed by Islamist extremism. Investigators ...

Both supporters and critics of South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol are using American symbolism, from the “Stop the Steal” slogan to the Virginia state flag.