WASHINGTON — Adm. Kevin Lunday has been confirmed as the Coast Guard’s commandant after the service revised its guidance on hate symbols, prompting Senate Democrats to lift their holds on his ...

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 ...

Facing backlash over recent policy wording, the Coast Guard moved Thursday to make one thing clear: "hate symbols" such as swastikas and nooses remain forbidden in the service. The Coast Guard ...

The U.S. Coast Guard clarified its “hate symbols” policy after Jewish groups and lawmakers blasted a revision the military service made to its anti-harassment regulations. "The Coast Guard does not ...

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 ...

The Coast Guard said Thursday a Washington Post report that claimed it will no longer classify swastikas and nooses as hate symbols is “categorically false.” “The claims that the U.S. Coast Guard will ...

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 ...

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 ...