When Flag Day arrives on Wednesday, the day will mark precisely 240 years since the Continental Congress approved the stars and stripes design of the American flag and adopted it as a national symbol, ...

"The Star-Spangled Banner," Francis Scott Key's famed song that went on to become the United States' national anthem, pays tribute to a flag that has symbolized the American experiment for centuries.

The Second Continental Congress adopted the Stars and Stripes as the national flag on June 14, 1777. The first design of the national flag, called the Grand Union flag, combined the British Union Jack ...

Three weeks ago, a Senate committee heard testimony on a bill that could bring Puerto Rico a step closer to becoming the 51 st state. The Puerto Rico Democracy Act of 2010, which passed the House in ...

More than 75 years after Flag Day became U.S. law, the stars and stripes grab our gaze these days in constant portraits of how Americans see their country’s promise — sometimes dotted along historic ...

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy made a big show of hanging the Stars and Stripes at the US Capitol to mark Flag Day on Wednesday, after the White House caught flak for its own Pride flag display over the ...