A Russian man who sought asylum in the U.S. three years ago sparked global praise for rescuing an American flag from a burning home during the California wildfires. Sultan Ramazanov was driving ...

Matthew Chapman is a video game designer who attended Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and lives in San Marcos, Texas. Before joining Raw Story, he wrote for Shareblue and AlterNet, specializing ...

Miss Universe CEO Anne Jakrajutatip shocked the pageant community when she praised Miss Universe winner Victoria Kjær Theilvig's blond hair and blue eyes, calling them "the best." "We have blond ...

Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom will temporarily raise the American Flag at the state Capitol to full height on Inauguration Day next week, joining a handful of GOP governors and ...

That war was known as the American Civil War. Though the CSA had declared itself an independent nation with its own president, flag, capital city, and set in place its own government and ...

But the question still hung in the air, begging to be taken up by the American people at a time that wasn’t limited to the five minutes that Mike Crapo, the U.S. Senate Finance Committee ...

For that reason, the rule could permanently change smoking in America. The FDA insists that the proposal isn’t a ban per se. But in the rule’s intended effect, ban may indeed be an apt term.

Usa.gov states that the American flag flies at half-staff when the country or a state is in mourning. The president, a state governor or the mayor of the District of Columbia can order flags to ...

The American flag would "for the first time ever during an Inauguration of a future President, be at half mast," said Trump. "Nobody wants to see this, and no American can be happy about it.

On Jan. 15, Utah Gov. Spencer J. Cox issued an order for "the flags of the United States of America and the great state of Utah to be flown at full-staff on all state facilities on Monday ...

With less than a week until Inauguration Day, President-elect Trump got his wish for flags to be raised next Monday. American flags on public and government buildings are supposed to be flying at ...

“Nobody wants to see this, and no American can be happy about it.” American flags at Trump’s private Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida were raised from half-staff Monday, The Associated Press reporte ...