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 ...

The U.S. Coast Guard closed out 2025 with record success in maritime drug interdictions, seizing more than 511,000 pounds of narcotics valued at more than $3.8 billion, the service announced in a news ...

In November 2025, a claim (archived) circulated online that, according to a new policy, the U.S. Coast Guard would no longer classify swastikas and nooses as hate symbols starting in December 2025.

A small boat crew from U.S. Coast Guard cutter Donald Horsley pursues suspected drug smugglers in the Caribbean Sea, Oct. 3, 2018. (Courtesy Air Station Elizabeth City/U.S. Coast Guard) Editor’s note: ...

Mobile-based shipbuilder Austal USA and the U.S. Coast Guard came together Monday to celebrate work on a ship that represents a critical future for both parties – if they can overcome problems so ...

In a stunning and hasty reversal, the U.S. Coast Guard announced late Thursday that swastikas and nooses are prohibited hate symbols - erasing an attempt to soften their definition after the plan ...

Adm. Kevin Lunday, acting Commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard, speaks during the 144th Commencement Exercises at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy, May 21, 2025. US Coast Guard Photo In the first hours of ...

Hours after President Donald Trump announced that U.S. military members would receive a one-time payment for their duty and service, the Coast Guard is doing the same. U.S. Homeland Security Secretary ...

In the wide Eastern Pacific Ocean, where fast speedboats loaded with cocaine race through international waters, U.S. Coast Guard planes fired warning shots and then aimed at boat engines to stop three ...