Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Adm. Kevin Lunday, acting commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard, arrives to a Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee ...

The U.S. Coast Guard on Thursday released a new policy on hateful symbols such as swastikas and nooses after a Washington ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Coast Guard is pushing back on reports that it will no longer classify swastikas and nooses as hate symbols -- with a ...

The Coast Guard reinforced its stance on characterizing swastikas as hate symbols following confusion about the branch’s hate symbols policies, triggered by a report noting a change in wording from ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Coast Guard has released a new, firmer policy addressing the display of hate symbols like swastikas and nooses just hours after it was publicly revealed that it made plans ...

References in U.S. Coast Guard policy calling hate symbols “potentially divisive” were removed Thursday, and a U.S. senator said she was lifting a hold she had placed on a nomination for the service’s ...

Starting next month, the U.S. Coast Guard plan to refer the use of racist symbols like swastikas and nooses as potentially divisive instead of continuing their policy of identifying them as hate ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A U.S. senator said Wednesday that she is pausing the nomination for the top Coast Guard job because leaders appeared to have “backtracked” on a commitment to ensure that swastikas ...

The Coast Guard is pushing back on reports that it will no longer classify swastikas and nooses as hate symbols -- with a categorical denial. A Coast Guard document dated Nov. 2 appears to suggest ...