After days of backlash, the Homeland Security Department said hateful and violent behavior would not be tolerated.

The US Coast Guard on Thursday issued a memo that reclassifies swastikas and nooses as “hate symbols,” in a rapid about-face ...

Acting Commandant of the Coast Guard Adm. Kevin Lunday said hate symbols including swastikas and nooses remain prohibited as ...

A Coast Guard personnel directive updated language identifying symbols of racial or religious hatred, setting off a political ...

The claims that the U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses or other extremist imagery as prohibited ...

The U.S. Coast Guard has released a new, firmer policy addressing the display of hate symbols like swastikas and nooses just ...

The U.S. Coast Guard has reversed course on swastikas and nooses, saying they are "hate symbols" after reportedly issuing ...

The Coast Guard said Thursday a Washington Post report that claimed it will no longer classify swastikas and nooses as hate ...

It was unclear who had directed the attempt to reclassify such symbols as “potentially divisive” rather than hate symbols.

The change came on the same day media outlets discovered that the Coast Guard had unveiled a policy calling the same symbols ...