Want to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? Start your Independent Premium subscription today. From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (WFLA) — A Florida police officer is without a job after accidentally firing a man’s gun during a traffic stop. On Dec. 13, 2024, a Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office officer ...

By Patricia Mazzei Reporting from Miami D.C. Reeves, the mayor of Pensacola, Fla., was out on Main and Eighth streets on Wednesday morning, talking to public works crews who plowed snow from the ...

Snow was reported early Tuesday afternoon in Pensacola along the Florida Panhandle. The Florida Highway Patrol posted a photo of snow blanketing the ground on social media just after noon with the ...

After Monday's presidential inauguration, flags fly back at half-staff in Texas. According to a press release from the White House, flags were ordered to be flown at full-staff at the White House ...

(NEXSTAR) — Flags across the U.S. are meant to be at half-staff for another eight days, but they were at full staff in Washington, D.C. on Monday. Why was the nation’s capital in defiance of a ...

House Speaker Mike Johnson did Trump a favor on Jan. 20 by defying U.S. flag code at the Capitol and pausing Carter's mourning period Win McNamee/Getty; MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty; Jessica McGowan ...

After some controversy over whether flags should fly at full-staff on Inauguration Day, President Donald Trump issued an executive order on the topic Monday. In one of his first actions as ...

A Florida sheriff is combating illegal immigration by sharing a bold statement with those who are in the state illegally ahead of President-elect Trump’s inauguration. “And I leave with this ...

To mark the death of former president Jimmy Carter, President Joe Biden declared flags be displayed at half-staff for 30 days to mourn him “as an expression of public sorrow.” That 30-day ...

On Inauguration Day 2025, some flags will remain at half-staff in honor of deceased former President Jimmy Carter, while others will be raised to full-staff for incoming President Donald Trump.