Damon Young, author of What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker, on how certain white Americans have weaponized the flag and used it as a way to intimate those they deem less American.

The calls started on Wednesday in Monongahela, Washington County. ... That raised a red flag, so the store manager took the pre-paid cards off the shelves sensing this was part of a scam.

The spiky-looking flag poles are left over from the Three Rivers Arts fest sometime in the 1980s, according to AJ Pantoni. But the piers remained, as did the tunnel.