Federal prosecutors have filed two charges against Western North Carolina veteran Jay Carey, 54, after arresting him Aug. 25 for burning an American flag in Lafayette Park outside of the White House.

A decorated US Army veteran was arrested on Monday after burning an American flag near the White House, in what he described as a peaceful protest against an executive order recently signed by ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. U.S. Army veteran Jay Carey — who went viral for telling Rep. Chuck Edwards (R-N.C.) he didn’t give a “fuck” about him — defended ...

A decorated former soldier who was arrested Monday after he burned an American flag near the White House says he set the fire because “it was my right as a citizen … under the First Amendment to ...

This story has been updated with additional information. Jay Carey, a Western North Carolina veteran arrested after burning an American flag near the White House last month, pleaded not guilty Sept.

WASHINGTON — The Justice Department has moved to dismiss charges against an Army veteran who set fire to an American flag near the White House last year to protest President Donald Trump’s executive ...

WASHINGTON — Lawyers for a North Carolina veteran facing criminal charges for burning a flag in protest near the White House say they plan to file a constitutional challenge seeking to have the case ...

I was able to spend a weekend in Washington, D.C., with U.S. Army veteran Jay Carey and the organization that he helped start, Resist and Persist, a group of veterans who are standing against the ...