The flags were raised at half staff to honor the late President Carter.

American flags will fly at full height at the United States Capitol and across Texas in recognition of President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration. Last week, U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson ordered ...

American flags will fly at full height at the United States Capitol and across Texas in recognition of President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration. Last week, U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson ...

AUSTIN – Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has directed that American flags on state property be flown at full-staff to mark President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration next week, bypassing the national ...

Tate Reeves has ordered the U.S. and state flags in Mississippi be flown at full height on Monday during the inauguration of ...

Tennessee’s Bill Lee and Texas’s Greg Abbott. The move goes against tradition, when flags stay at half-staff for the entirety of a 30-day mourning period following the death of a sitting or ...

Bill Lee, Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott – all of whom are Republicans. House Speaker Johnson also ordered that flags at the U.S. Capitol fly at full-staff for Trump's ...

Here's what we know. Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas, like several other governors, cited a federal statute stating that the U.S. flag should be displayed "especially on Inauguration Day, January 20." ...

Eight states, including Iowa, Texas, Florida, Tennessee, Oklahoma, North Dakota, Nebraska and Alabama, ordered flags at full-staff during Trump’s inauguration. In addition to the state buildings ...

Texas Gov. Greg Abbot has ordered American flags in the Lone Star State to be raised to full-staff on Inauguration Day, Jan. 20, when President-elect Donald Trump takes office. It was unclear if ...

Despite President Joe Biden’s former directive that U.S. flags would be flown at half-staff ... ahead for the United States of America,” Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, a staunch Trump ally, wrote ...

David Edwards has spent over a decade reporting on social justice, human rights and politics for Raw Story. He also writes Crooks and Liars. He has a background in enterprise resource planning and ...