At the stroke of noon on February 15, 1965, Canada’s red and white maple leaf flag was raised for the very first time on Parliament Hill. On the same day in 1996, National Flag of Canada Day was ...

The saga began in 2022, when the stars and stripes flew at the top of the flagpole. That year former city councilmember Dave Meserve, a self-described peacenik and custom home builder, drafted ...

A rumor circulating online in early February 2025 claimed U.S. President Donald Trump's administration replaced the standard 50-star U.S. flag with a nine-star flag on government websites.

Getting rid of the second flagpole outside the base—which currently flies a Danish flag under a 1951 treaty—is a cosmetic vanity project, not an absolute security necessity. What’s really at stake ...

Flags across Arizona and the United States have been flying at half-staff for nearly a month, but they will soon return to full-staff. Flags across the country were ordered to fly at half-staff ...

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Tesla Faces Polish Boycott Call Over Musk's Remarks: ‘No Normal Pole Should Buy' A Polish government official is calling for a boycott of Tesla Inc TSLA vehicles in the country after recent ...

The magnetic north pole has shifted over 400 km from Canada towards Russia in the past century due to changes in Earth's molten core. Scientists use the World Magnetic Model to monitor this ...

In mid-December of 2024, scientists officially updated the World Magnetic Model (WMM), which helps keep track of our planet’s magnetic north and its chaotic and relatively unpredictable movements.

Jim Nantz clears up confusion that took place at the end of the Bills-Chiefs AFC title game won by Andy Reid and Kansas City. / Geoff Burke-Imagn Images 1. As expected, there was a LOT going on in ...

In his column “Trump, Greenland, and the power of the bully pulpit” (Ideas, Jan. 19) Jeff Jacoby wrote about the shifting of the “Overton window,” or how an utterly absurd idea, spoken by ...