If you happened to find yourself in Yosemite National Park this past weekend (February 22, to be exact), you might have been drawn to the peculiar sight of the American flag hanging upside-down ...

Kate Nalepinski is a Newsweek journalist based in New York City. Kate joined Newsweek in May 2024. She is a graduate of Ithaca College. Flying the American flag upside down is a symbol that has ...

Retired Sergeant First Class Joy Marver, who suffered a traumatic brain injury during a rocket attack in Iraq, was laid off ...

By Michael Levenson A small group of protesters hung an inverted American flag — historically used as a sign of distress — off the side of El Capitan, a towering rock formation in Yosemite ...

Traditionally, hanging the American flag upside down symbolizes a distress call. Gavin Carpenter, a maintenance mechanic with Yosemite, spoke to the San Francisco Chronicle on Saturday and said he ...

Traditionally, hanging the American flag upside down symbolizes a distress call. Gavin Carpenter, a maintenance mechanic with Yosemite, spoke to the San Francisco Chronicle on Saturday and said he ...

Flying a flag upside down is traditionally a sign of "dire distress," the United States ... which are every American’s properties," Gavin Carpenter, a Yosemite maintenance mechanic and disabled ...

Flying the American flag upside down is often done during times of distress or unrest ... in places like Yosemite National Park. In a sign of protest, six demonstrators rappelled down the mountain ...