You will see an American flag with 9 stars in the top left corner of government websites like the Centers for Disease Control ...

The flag icon has been used on government sites since 2017, said a spokesperson for the General Services Association, which guides federal website standards. The flag had only nine stars because of ...

A first league double over Middlesbrough in 63 years, a first league win at the Riverside in 20 years and a player who didn’t ...

A search of website archives confirmed the small, nine-star American flag icon existed prior to U.S. President Donald Trump's ...

The political trajectory of Moovalur’s life, meticulously documented, tells us that she was her own person in both the ...

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There are currently no plans for the UK to rejoin the EU, and the government has ruled out re-entering the single market or customs union. A Facebook post has shared a screenshot of what appears to be ...

the Flag may, for the first time ever during an Inauguration of a future president, be at half mast,” he wrote. “Nobody wants to see this, and no American can be happy about it. Let’s see ...

But executive order No. 5, the first non-appointment related order, declares the flags be flown at full mast for the remainder of Monday and any future inauguration days. Trump ordered this after ...

Flynn Nicholls is a Newsweek reporter based in London, U.K. His focus is reporting on U.S. politics and society. Originally from New Zealand, Flynn joined Newsweek in 2024 and had previously ...

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 ...