Long journeys to United States citizenship reached their conclusions for some 200 Texans during a naturalization ceremony ...

On this day (February 12) in 1993, Toby Keith kicked off a career full of hits with his debut single “Should’ve Been a Cowboy.” He wrote and released the song as the first single from his self-titled ...

H. Ross Perot, left, and country singer Willie Nelson share the stage on Saturday, May 30, 1992 at the nominating convention ...

Keith Haring created this screen-printed flag for a travelling outdoor exhibition organised by the Gran Pavese Foundation in 1988. The Flag Project invited 50 artists, including Haring ...

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WASHINGTON — It’s time to take pride in the American flag again, President Trump’s State Department said on Tuesday. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Tuesday banned flying any other flags ...

The administration of President Joe Biden reversed Trump’s ban on rainbow flags at embassies. Biden’s Secretary of State Antony Blinken told American embassies and diplomatic missions that ...

Toby Myers, longtime bassist for John Mellencamp and the Todd Rundgren-discovered band Roadmaster, died on Jan. 16 at age 75. “Sadness has entered the Mellencamp band and John over the passing ...

President Donald Trump made a bold promise to America minutes after taking the Oath of Office: pledging that an American flag would be planted on Mars. "The United States will once again consider ...

Michael M. Santiago/Getty; ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty “The Democrats are all ‘giddy’ about our magnificent American Flag potentially being at ‘half mast’ during my Inauguration,” Trump ...

After Monday's presidential inauguration, flags fly back at half-staff in Texas. According to a press release from the White House, flags were ordered to be flown at full-staff at the White House ...