Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry announced that the Make America Great Again (MAGA) flag will fly at the Governor’s Mansion as President-elect Trump is sworn into office in the nation’s capital. 

“BREAKING: Governor Landry to fly Make America Great Again flag at Louisiana Governor’s Mansion on Jan. 20 in honor of the Inauguration of President Donald J. Trump,’ the governor’s wrote announced on social media Friday. 

The Republican governor invited others to join in and fly Trump’s signature flag on Inauguration Day on Monday.

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This comes after newly re-elected Speaker Mike Johnson announced that the American flags will be flown at full-staff, despite an order from President Biden to lower the flags to half-staff in remembrance of the late President Jimmy Carter.

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“On January 20th, the flags at the Capitol will fly at full-staff to celebrate our country coming together behind the inauguration of our 47th President, Donald Trump,” Johnson wrote in a X post.

A man holds a “Make America Great Again” flag  on the third day of the Republican National Convention at the Fiserv Forum on July 17, 2024 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.  (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

“The flags will be lowered back to half-staff the following day to continue honoring President Jimmy Carter,” he said. 

As is tradition following the death of a president, Biden ordered flags to be flown at half-staff on federal properties for 30 days, which would coincide with the inauguration of the president-elect.

The US flag at half mast to mark the 23rd anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, outside the US Capitol in Washington, DC, US, on Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2024. (Allison Robbert/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Trump took to social media following Biden’s order, writing that Democrats were “giddy” that flags would be flown half-staff during his swearing-in ceremony.

“The Democrats are all ‘giddy’ about our magnificent American Flag potentially being at ‘half-mast’ during my Inauguration,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “They think it’s so great, and are so happy about it because, in actuality, they don’t love our Country, they only think about themselves.

“In any event, because of the death of President Jimmy Carter, the Flag may, for the first time ever during an Inauguration of a future President, be at half-mast. Nobody wants to see this, and no American can be happy about it. Let’s see how it plays out.”

Flags were flown at half-staff when former President Nixon was sworn-in for his second term in 1973 after Nixon ordered the flags to be lowered following the death of former President Truman.

Fox News Digital has reached out to Gov. Landry’s office for comment.

North Carolina authorities on Thursday arrested a man in connection with the disappearance and murder of 25-year-old Fayetteville woman Heather Williams.

Williams was reported missing on Jan. 4, when she was last seen getting into a light-colored, four-door sedan just before 10 p.m. in the area of Berkshire Road, according to the Fayetteville Police Department (FPD).

The FPD Homicide Unit, with assistance from the department’s Violent Criminal Apprehension Team, arrested and charged Tyrell Jaquez Siermons, 30, of Fayetteville, North Carolina, with first-degree murder in connection with Williams’ death.

Authorities located the 25-year-old woman dead in “a wooded area near Newark Ave. and State Ave.” on Jan. 10, six days after she was reported missing.

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The suspect has a lengthy criminal history in Cumberland County, court records show. He is also facing an out-of-state probation charge from Jan. 16 — the same day he was charged with first-degree murder — meaning he was on probation in North Carolina when he was accused of a crime in another state.

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His other priors, dating back to 2011, include charges of attempted first-degree murder, attempted kidnapping, robbery with a dangerous weapon, felony possession of a firearm, being a habitual felon, common law robbery, robbery with a dangerous weapon, felony probation violation, breaking or entering and larceny.

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Fayetteville, North Carolina, authorities have charged Tyrell Siermons, 30, with first-degree murder in connection wtih 25-year-old Heather Williams’ death. (Fayetteville PD)

The FPD did not comment on any kind of relationship between the suspect and the victim but did say the vehicle that Williams was last seen getting into on Jan. 4 is ultimately what led them to Siermons.

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Police said Williams had a cognitive impairment, which her family said was the result of being hit by a car in 2015, local outlet WRAL reported.

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Heather’s sister, Mary Williams, told WRAL that she contacted a man listed on Heather’s phone log around the same time she left home on Jan. 4. She asked the man what kind of car he drove and if he had picked up Heather that evening.

Authorities located Heather Williams’ body in “a wooded area near Newark Ave. and State Ave.” on Jan 10, six days after she was reported missing. (Facebook)

“He said he met her on Facebook, either through Facebook Dating or Messenger, he couldn’t remember which. He said he hung out with her one night, but he wasn’t sure if it was Saturday night,” Mary told the outlet.

Mary added that she followed up with the man later, who told her, “Yes, the car that picked her up was that car.” She believes Siermons is the same man she contacted from Heather’s phone, according to WRAL.

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Siermons is currently being held at the Cumberland County Detention Center without bond. 

Fayetteville police are asking anyone with information to contact Detective E. Alrafai at (910) 723-0327 or Crimestoppers at (910) 483-TIPS (8477).

A group of more than 30 migrants, most of them Chinese citizens, was found inside a U-Haul truck Friday after a report of an alleged abduction, Florida authorities said. 

The discovery began when a security guard for a homeowners association in the Miami suburb of Coral Gables reported seeing an abduction around 9:35 a.m., Coral Gables Police Chief Edward James Hudak Jr. told reporters. 

The guard reported seeing a Toyota and a U-Haul truck involved in the incident and immediately alerted a patrol officer, the chief said. The officer then issued a BOLO, a be on the lookout alert, for the vehicles. 

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The vehicles were stopped by officers, and the woman who was allegedly abducted was taken from the Toyota. Officers then began investigating the U-Haul truck, which had 16 Chinese females, 15 Chinese males, one male from Cuba and a female from Ecuador, according to police.

“Officers opened the back of the truck, which revealed 21 predominantly Chinese nationals,” Hudak said.

In addition to the migrants in the Toyota were a Cuban man, a Brazilian woman and a man from Ecuador, police said.

“We do believe these individuals were brought here by the water,” the chief said. “They were probably dropped off, we’re assuming somewhere around the southern end of Coral Gables and approached on foot to the van where they were loaded into.”

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A U-Haul van where Chinese migrants were found is towed from the scene in Coral Gables, Florida on Friday.  (WSVN-TV)

Investigators were looking into whether the woman who was possibly being abducted was trying to escape her alleged smugglers. The Coral Gables Fire Department responded to provide medical care to the migrants, who were “tired” but in good condition, police said. 

“Today’s event is a prime example of why FDLE is supportive of the governor’s proposed special session to tackle illegal immigration immediately,” Florida Department of Law Enforcement Commissioner Mark Glass said. “The actions of law enforcement are an integral part in preventing these smuggling ventures that happen too frequently on our southern border.”

The migrants were handed over to the U.S. Border Patrol, and four others were taken into police custody related to the incident. 

“This started off as a crime,” Hudak said. “The police department responded to that alleged crime by a very alert citizen. By that, I mean I think we’ve saved some lives.”

Authorities patrolling the waters near the city stopped several vessels but have not identified the boat in which the migrants were transported, authorities said. 

Fox News Digital has reached out to the police and U.S. Border Patrol.