Flying the American flag upside down is often done during times of distress or unrest. An American flag was hung upside down over El Capitan in Yosemite National Park over the weekend to protest the ...

Retired Sergeant First Class Joy Marver, who suffered a traumatic brain injury during a rocket attack in Iraq, was laid off ...

A photograph accurately shows a U.S. "distress" flag hung upside down from the side of El Capitan in Yosemite National Park ...

An inverted American flag, which was displayed at Yosemite National Park in February 2025, is a historic symbol of dire distress.

After 1,000 National Park Service employees were abruptly fired Feb. 14, staff have banded together to signal “dire distress” by hanging the American flag upside down off Yosemite’s El Capitan. The ...

Demonstrators unfurled the flag against El Capitan to protest the Trump administration's cuts to the National Park Service.

Workers at Yosemite National Park in California unfurled a large, upside-down U.S. flag at a popular summit in the park on ...

The Department of the Interior told USA TODAY it was aware of the "unauthorized and inappropriate" display, which was eventually taken down.

A group of climbers, some who used to work for the Park Service, intended to raise awareness about how recent federal job ...

The upside-down flag was placed on the cliff face of El Capitan at the national park. A group of National Park Service demonstrators unfurled an upside-down American flag on the cliff face of El ...