That would be “Seal on a Bedsheet,” the derisive moniker with which some have burdened the Illinois state flag, a gleaming white banner emblazoned with the state's bald eagle-themed emblem.

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. This image provided by the Illinois Secretary of State’s Office in March 2025 shows the top voted state ...

TOKYO (AP) — Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba is being criticized for distributing gift certificates to 15 first-year lawmakers in his party in a scandal shaking his already weak grip on ...

Apple has replaced the flag used by the ousted regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad with the Syrian independence flag associated with the 2011 revolution and used by the current Syrian interim ...

BOISE — The Idaho Senate has passed a bill limiting what flags can be flown on public school property. On Wednesday, the Senate voted 29-6 in favor of House Bill 41, which prohibits flags that ...

Allen County will reveal its new flag April 1, which is 201 years since the county was established, officials announced Wednesday. A county bicentennial committee accepted designs from residents ...

Scott Webster, R-Bettendorf, Senate Study Bill 1162 would allow Iowans to purchase license plates with elements of the ‘Don’t Tread on Me’ or Gadsden flag. The plates would be golden yellow ...

Driving home from the airport this weekend, I noticed something at nearly every toll plaza I passed: flags were lowered to half staff. A flag is flown at half staff as a symbol of mourning. While ...

Anti-Israel protesters who display the flag of terror groups such as Hamas or Hezbollah could face up to four years behind bars under a new state bill. The proposed ...

JACKSON, N.J. -- Kingda Ka, once the tallest and fastest roller coaster in the world, is now a pile of rubble after it was imploded at New Jersey's Six Flags Great Adventure on Friday morning ...

Beginning this Spring, the New York Jets will sponsor a girls flag club travel team for high school aged players. In an effort to grow elite competition opportunities at the high school level, the ...

Rwandan-backed M23 fighters have made big gains in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, seizing the cities of Goma and Bukavu, prompting warnings to the UN Security Council and stoking fears ...