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 a federal holiday celebrated each year in mid-February to honor past U.S. presidents. Locally, it's part of ...

Johnson signed into law in 1968. It originally designated three federal holidays, Memorial Day, Veterans Day, and former President George Washington’s birthday, to be marked on Mondays.

The shift from Washington’s Birthday to Presidents' Day began in the late 1960s, when Congress proposed the Uniform Monday ...

The measure, known as the “Patriot Day Act,” would formally recognize September 11th as a federal holiday. It would do this ...

Presidents Day is almost here. Here's what you need to know about the holiday, what's open or closed and whether you can expect to get mail on Monday.

The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. waved to supporters during the March on Washington on Aug. 28 ... recognize Martin Luther King Jr. Day. For some, the holiday is just that — time off from ...

Well, at least you'll have a three-day holiday weekend ... adjourn out of respect for Washington's memory and in commemoration of his birth. Prompted by a memorial from the mayor and other ...

Neither Congress nor the president have ever stipulated that the name of the holiday observed as Washington's Birthday be changed to Presidents' Day, according to the National Archives.