Not that complicated.” U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson said on X, “Earlier today, pro-Hamas protesters took down the American flags at Union Station, burned them and raised Palestinian flags.

Once protesters reached the Capitol Hill neighborhood, they looped back around to Union Station, where some burned American flags and raised Palestinian ones on the flagpoles in Columbus Circle ...

Demonstrators gather around the Columbus Memorial Fountain at Union Station, draping a statue ... Demonstrators gather around a burning U.S. flag and effigy during a pro-Palestinian protest ...