DALLAS (AURN News) — The New York Stock Exchange announced plans to establish a new presence in Dallas and relocate its Chicago operations to Texas, pending regulatory approval.. The expansion, dubbed NYSE Texas, will see the exchange strengthen its foothold in the southern United States. NYSE Chicago will reincorporate in Texas once regulatory filings are completed, according to exchange ...

A rumor circulating online in early February 2025 claimed U.S. President Donald Trump's administration replaced the standard 50-star U.S. flag with a nine-star flag on government websites.

Other posts made connections to various flags used by the Confederacy during the U.S. Civil War, claiming it was the Confederate Battle Flag or that it resembled the "Stars and Bars" flag used by the Confederate states, implying the addition of the icon to government websites was recent and symbolical with respect to events in 2025.

You will see an American flag with 9 stars in the top left corner of government websites like the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The U.S. Web Design System shows this is the ...

The so-called 9-star flag seen on some government websites is not an official redesign of the American flag. Instead, it is a small icon used in web banners as part of the U.S. Web Design System ...