A new North Carolina housing development will require residents to prove their patriotism by flying an American flag year-round so ... people who buy homes at 1776 Gastonia, a 55-plus community ...

Aleks Phillips is a Newsweek U.S. News Reporter based in London. His focus is on U.S. politics and the environment. He has covered climate change extensively, as well as healthcare and crime.

By the first of January, 1776, the United States ... The thirteen-striped American flag, no longer of the Congress only, but of "the United States of America, free and independent," flew at ...