There are five days in 2025 when flags are scheduled to be flown at half-staff. It's half-mast if you're on a ship.

Presidents Day is Monday, Feb. 17. It honors the birthdays of Presidents George Washington and Abraham Lincoln.

In a series of executive actions, President Donald Trump rolled back numerous diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives within the federal government ... to 11 annual cultural or historical ...

Presidents’ Day became a federal holiday under President Rutherford B. Hayes in 1879 and was originally observed on Washington’s actual birthday each year. In 1968, Congress passed a law that ensured ...

including domestic violence battery by strangulation in 2017 and resisting law enforcement with violence in 2021. Federal law prohibits anyone who has been convicted of a crime punishable by a ...

Stimulus checks have come and gone for most people, along with the pandemic. But oddly enough, some 1 million taxpayers are receiving extra cash out of the blue from the IRS. Most of these people ...

Although Martin Luther King Jr. Day is one of 13 federal holidays that is observed, inauguration day is not a federal holiday. Only employees who work in Washington D.C. observe the day by having ...

King was born in 1929, and the holiday is instead observed on the nearest Monday to his birthday each year. Martin Luther King Jr. Day was officially established as a federal holiday on January 20 ...

Though the law recognizes both Martin Luther King Day and Inauguration Day as federal holidays, this does not mean that individuals working for private businesses are required to have two days of ...

Most banks will be closed on Jan. 20 because Martin Luther King Jr. Day is a holiday observed by the Federal Reserve System. Still, ATMs will be available for people who need to withdraw cash or ...

This story was updated to correct grammar errors. With Martin Luther King Jr. Day, a federal holiday honoring the late civil rights icon, falling on Monday this year, Michigan residents hoping to ...