In October 2024, 55-year-old Yusof Lateef raised the People's Action Party (PAP) flag and the Marine Parade 50th anniversary flag during his second ascent to Mount Everest South Base Camp.

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 ...

Flags at the U.S. Capitol will be flown at full height on Inauguration Day — before the end of a 30-day mourning period in honor of former President Jimmy Carter — House Speaker Mike Johnson c ...

Several Republican governors across the U.S. are ordering state flags, which are currently being flown at half-staff following President Jimmy Carter’s death, to be raised to acknowledge Preside ...

Despite President Joe Biden’s former directive that U.S. flags would be flown at half-staff during President-elect Donald Trump’s Inauguration Day—a continuation of mourning after the death ...

Trump will be inaugurated at the U.S. Capitol's west lawn on January 20 and wants the flags flying full-staff. He has made it a partisan issue in recent weeks despite the order being part of the U ...

On March 23, 2020, the U.S. Marine Corps (USMC) announced a major force design initiative planned to occur over 10 years originally referred to as “Force Design 2030” which is now known as ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson of Louisiana, speaks during a ceremony as the flag-draped casket of former ...

Marine Corps Commandant Gen. Eric Smith has some bad news for any Marines who want to grow beards. When asked on Wednesday if he could foresee any circumstances in the coming years under which ...

Marine Corps Commandant Gen. Eric Smith cautioned on Wednesday that ongoing efforts to relocate Marines from Okinawa to Guam will move those forces away from where they are most needed.

American service members can once again display the U.S. flag horizontally at sporting events and other official ceremonies, the Pentagon said in a memo that reverses restrictions enacted two ...