Flag Day is celebrated every June 14 across the country. Right here in Washington, a state law dictates this flag to fly on the holiday.

What's the history behind the American flag? What do the different colors of the flag represent? Here's what we know about Flag Day.

This Father's Day weekend brings another, more obscure holiday in the U.S.: Flag Day. Here's what the holiday is and how and when it started.

The first, local Flag Day observances came after the Civil War and eventually a federal law designated June 14 as Flag Day in 1949, under World War I combat veteran Harry Truman. He declared in a proclamation the next year that the U.S. flag symbolizes freedom and “protection from tyranny.”

A flag resolution was adopted 248 years ago, on June 14, 1777, that said, "Resolved: that the flag of the United States be made of 13 stripes, alternate red and white; that the union be 13 stars, white in a blue field, representing a new constellation," according to the Smithsonian.

Celebrated each year on June 14, Flag Day commemorates the 1777 approval of a national flag design by the Continental Congress.

As protestors gathered nationwide to coincide with Flag Day and the Army Parade in Washington D.C., around 2,200 people took to the streets of Y

The Juneteenth flag will fly over some state capitols and city buildings on June 19. Here's what to know about the flag's history and meaning.

Military leaders, veterans, and civic voices gather at Mount Vernon to mark Army’s 250th and launch a campaign urging Americans to serve their country.

Flags were ordered to be flown at half-staff in Arizona on Saturday, June 14, 2025. Here's why, plus the difference between half staff and half mast.

No Kings' protests decrying President Donald Trump are happening across the U.S. The army is hosting a military parade for its 250th birthday in Washington, D.C.