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They thought this rare, tiny flower was extinct since WWI. Now it’s a symbol of hope
Molly Parren was tracking a wood turtle in Vermont when she smelled something surprising, yet familiar. The amphibian scientist for the state’s wildlife agency traced the smell to a rare wild garlic and snapped a photo. What she didn’t realize at the time was she had found not one but two rare plants — one […]
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‘Now he’s seen as a symbol’: Republicans rally around Trump
PEORIA, Illinois — House Speaker Mike Johnson intensified his defense of Donald Trump before headlining a party fundraiser in Illinois on Saturday, as even this deep blue state’s Republicans seized on a Manhattan jury’s guilty verdict as a rallying cry for the former president. “Terrible,” Frank Hernandez, a retiree from Caterpillar, said of the verdict […]
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Upside-down American flag reappears as a right-wing protest symbol after Trump’s guilty verdict
CHICAGO (AP) — After Donald Trump’s historic guilty verdict, a steady flow of images showing upside-down American flags has appeared on social media as his supporters and right-wing commentators protest his felony conviction. At least one such flag was spotted Friday outside Trump Tower in New York City as the Republican former president spoke about […]
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The ‘Appeal to Heaven’ flag evolves from Revolutionary War symbol to banner of the far right
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito is embroiled in a second flag controversy in as many weeks, this time over a banner that in recent years has come to symbolize sympathies with the Christian nationalist movement and the false claim that the 2020 presidential election was stolen. An “Appeal to Heaven” flag […]
Fort Pierce post office flies upside down flag, symbol of “Stop the Steal” election deniers
FORT PIERCE — A star-spangled banner flew upside down Wednesday at the United States Post Office on Orange Avenue, days after U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito faced criticism for years-old pictures of the same sight at his home. The upside-down American flag has been a symbol used by “Stop the Steal,” groups backing false […]
Tattoo artist Shani Louk became a symbol of the music festival massacre by Hamas. The IDF has finally recovered her body.
The IDF recovered three hostages’ bodies from the Gaza Strip, including Shani Louk’s. Hamas militants killed the hostages on October 7 during the Nova Music Festival massacre. Shani Louk became symbolic of October 7 after photos and video footage of her abduction went viral. The Israel Defense Forces recovered three hostages’ bodies from the Gaza […]
What the symbol means to ‘stop the steal’ crowd
WASHINGTON − An upside-down American flag – a symbol connected with false claims that the 2020 election was stolen from former President Donald Trump − flew at the home of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito after the election, the New York Times reported Thursday. The news came as the high court is deciding two cases […]
At Justice Alito’s House, a ‘Stop the Steal’ Symbol on Display
After the 2020 presidential election, as some Trump supporters falsely claimed that President Joe Biden had stolen the office, many of them displayed a startling symbol outside their homes, on their cars and in online posts: an upside-down American flag. One of the homes flying an inverted flag during that time was the residence of […]