English Captain James Cook landed at Possession Bay in South Georgia Island. While his vessel HMS Resolution sat at anchor in ...

Ching Shih was born around 1775 in Canton (now Guangdong ... they built up a coalition of local pirate fleets, called the "Red Flag", and in 1804, blockaded the port of Macau, defeating the ...

A decade ago, David Fleming, a senior writer at ESPN, was waiting at his daughter’s school in Davidson, North Carolina when ...

Flags are supposed to fly at half-staff through the end of January out of respect for former President Jimmy Carter, who died ...

The “liberal international order” has evanesced, leaving Canada caught between a fading Europe and an authoritarian and ...

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 ...

Flags at federal and state government agencies across the nation are flying at half-staff, and were set to return to full on Jan. 29. This may not be the case in some states. After the death of a ...

A day after Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott announced they would order flags currently at half-staff in their states in honor of the late President Jimmy Carter to full-staff for ...

GOP governors of at least eight states ordered flags to be flown at full-staff on President-elect Trump’s Inauguration Day, bucking tradition by raising flags before the end of a customary 30 ...

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Monday announced that flags at the state Capitol building in Austin and at all state office buildings will be raised to full-staff next Monday, Jan. 20, to mark President ...

The flags are at half-staff due to the death of former President Jimmy Carter. House Speaker Mike Johnson said he is going to order that the flags at the Capitol, which are at half-staff due to ...

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 ...