An Army veteran has been arrested after burning an American flag outside the White House in defiance of Donald Trump’s new executive order targeting the act, long seen as a symbol of free speech and ...

WASHINGTON — Federal authorities Monday arrested a man across the street from the White House after he set an American flag on fire the day President Donald Trump signed an executive order intended to ...

A decorated former soldier who was arrested Monday after he burned an American flag near the White House says he set the fire because “it was my right as a citizen … under the First Amendment to ...

The arrest happened around 6:15 p.m. Aug. 25, after Trump's executive order directing his administration to prosecute such incidents when connected to other crimes "to the fullest extent possible." ...

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 ...