Gov. Kim Reynolds ordered flags around Iowa to be lowered to half-staff on Dec. 7. Her order joins others across the nation as the country remembers "a date which will live in infamy." Why are flags ...

For several days, the US flag has been flying half-staff in New Jersey as the nation mourned the death of former vice president Dick Cheney, the "War on Terror" architect who turned President Donald ...

President Donald Trump ordered flags in the U.S. to be flown at half staff in honor of former Vice President Dick Cheney, who died Nov. 3. Cheney, who served as vice president to George W. Bush, died ...

The U.S. flag is flying at half-staff across America Dec. 4 in memory of Specialist Sarah Beckstrom of the West Virginia Army National Guard. Beckstrom was killed during an ambush in Washington, D.C.

Flags are flown at half-staff on December 7 for National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day. The term half-staff is used for flags on land, while half-mast refers to flags on ships. Flags in Arizona and ...