COLUMBUS, Ohio - Upside down American flags are flying at demonstrations, on front porches and even over the side of one of America’s most treasured national landscapes. But what exactly does it mean?

WASHINGTON — One of the capital’s newest curiosities is an American flag bearing 51 stars rather than the regulation 50. The unusual take on the Stars and Stripes went up across Lafayette Park from ...

Since 1895, the Alabama state flag has been a crimson St. Andrew’s cross on a rectangular field of white. The design was likely intended to “preserve in permanent form some of the more distinctive ...