One of the earliest Memorial Day observances occurred on May 1, 1865. Organized by freed slaves and white missionaries.

U.S. flags should fly at half-staff from sunrise until noon. At noon, flags should be “raised briskly” to the top of the ...

Popes — they're just like us? Not exactly, but you wouldn't know that by the American fanfare surrounding the newly minted ...

Sarah Goode was one of several Black women who received patents in the 1880s. The year after Goode submitted the patent ...

Memorial Day is a U.S. holiday that’s supposed to be about mourning the nation’s fallen service members, but it’s come to ...

One Man’s Epic Quest to Uncover the First, True Declaration of Independence.” He joins WFAE’s Marshall Terry to talk more about what has become known as Meck Dec.

Selectmen approved spending $2,000 at their meeting on April 22 with $1,440 of it a grant match for purchasing 48 American flags. FARMINGTON — Selectmen voted to spend $2,000 from the Downtown ...

By Elizabeth Dias Elizabeth Dias, who covers religion, reported from Rome. American cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church described the historic papal conclave that concluded this week as ...

On shore, flags are flown at half-staff, meaning the flagpole is attached to a building or stuck in the ground. The American flag flies at half-staff when the country or a state is in mourning ...

Reacting to the election of a new pope on Thursday afternoon, faith leaders from across the country shared thoughts with Fox News Digital about the choice of Cardinal Robert Prevost, who has taken ...

Moffitt Cancer Center will no longer fly a rainbow flag in June to commemorate pride month, according to internal emails obtained by the Tampa Bay Times. The nonprofit also will not fly a special ...

Habemus papam — and he’s from Chicago! Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost was elected pope on Thursday — the first American in the 2,000-year history of the Catholic Church. The 69-year-old ...