At a time when President Donald Trump is implementing numerous potential changes to the United States government, people became aware of nine stars on American flags on official government websites.

Just a quick question, though: do you know how many stars and stripes are on the American flag? It seems a like a question that any citizen would know the answer to, sure, but there's actually ...

Old Glory, the weather-beaten 17- by 10-foot ... Scott Key’s Star-Spangled Banner as a patriotic symbol, and is the source of the term now applied generically to all American flags.