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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

An American flag was hung upside down on El Capitan at Yosemite National Park on Saturday following the firing of about 1,000 National Park Service employees by the Trump administration.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...