After former President Donald Trump’s 34-count felony conviction this week, right-wing supporters have adopted the upside-down American flag, a traditional sign of distress, as a symbol—but the flag ...

The symbol, traditionally used by seafarers as a distress call, has been wielded as a bipartisan protest. But its most visible recent uses have... After former President Donald Trump’s historic felony ...

I am saddened and offended by the use of the American flag as a symbol of distress for reasons other than what was intended: signaling a distress for military and other American installations under ...

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito’s wife previously said the inverted American flag flown at the couple’s house in January 2021 was “an international signal of distress,” The Washington Post reported ...

Demonstrators hung the American flag upside down over El Capitan in Yosemite National Park over the weekend. The display protested against the Trump administration’s firing of federal staff. Flying ...

A group of National Park Service demonstrators unfurled an upside-down American flag on the cliff face of El Capitan in Yosemite National Park on Saturday to protest the Trump administration’s mass ...

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