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

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

Millions of people flock to see the beauty of Yosemite National Park each year, but this month they were met with the strange ...

The U.S. Flag Code states that the American flag should never be upside down "except as a signal of dire distress in instance of extreme danger to life or property." Once a signal of distress for ...

But this year’s visitors witnessed more than firefall on February 22. They also saw an upside-down American flag, which Yosemite employees reportedly hung over the side of El Capitan to protest ...

As visitors descended on Yosemite National Park to witness its iconic “Firefall” event, an upside-down American flag was hung on a park summit to protest the ongoing federal job cuts carried ...

The upside-down flag drew widespread attention on social ... attention to what’s happening to the parks, which are every American’s properties,” Mr. Carpenter said. “It’s super important ...

Demonstrators unfurled a giant ‘Distress flag’ after 11 full-time Yosemite staff members were laid off amid the Trump administration’s federal employee purge ...

An American flag flies upside down Monday outside St. Sabina Church in Auburn Gresham. Zubaer Khan/Sun-Times Share The St. Sabina Church community raised an upside-down American flag Monday ...

Flying a flag upside down is traditionally a sign of "dire distress ... to what’s happening to the parks, which are every American’s properties," Gavin Carpenter, a Yosemite maintenance ...