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The US Coast Guard Cutter Escanaba sits docked during a visit with crew by US Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, in Panama City, June 24, 2025. (Anna Moneymaker/Pool photo via AP)
December 25, 2025, 11:06 am
After backlash, US Coast Guard again retracts policy easing rules against swastikas
In second reversal, Coast Guard now explicitly lists swastika and noose as hate symbols; move clears way for branch’s new chief to be sworn in, after objection from Jewish senator
By Andrew Lapin
This screen grab taken from a video posted on the X account of US Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem shows a US Coast Guard aircraft flying over a crude oil tanker, last docked in Venezuela, before apprehending it on December 20, 2025. (Handout / US Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem's X account / AFP)
December 21, 2025, 9:46 pm
US pursuing third oil tanker near Venezuela, officials say
Move follows Trump’s declaration of blockade on sanctioned Venezuelan oil; seizures may affect oil prices, analysts say
By Idrees Ali, Steve Holland and Helen Coster
Illustrative photo of a US Coast Guard cutter sitting docked at Coast Guard Island Alameda on November 21, 2025, in Alameda, California. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images/AFP)
December 19, 2025, 6:48 am
Jewish organizations slam US Coast Guard for quietly easing rules against swastikas
Apparent decision to no longer classify swastika as ‘hate symbol’ comes after acting head of US military branch told Jewish groups that earlier reports on policy shift were inaccurate
By Andrew Lapin
US Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem participates in a tour at the US Coast Guard Station Charleston, Friday, in Charleston, South Carolina, November 7, 2025. (Alex Brandon/AP)
November 21, 2025, 10:34 am
US Coast Guard reverses course on policy to call swastikas merely ‘potentially divisive’
Move comes hours after reports that the service had decided that neither the Nazi symbol, nor other motifs such as the noose, would be considered hate symbols, drawing outrage
By KONSTANTIN TOROPIN, LISA MASCARO and Susan Haigh
People look out toward the Francis Scott Key Bridge following its collapse after the Singapore-flagged Dali container ship collided with it along the Patapsco River on March 26, 2024 in Baltimore, Maryland. (Kent Nishimura/AFP)
March 27, 2024, 1:45 pm
Six missing from Baltimore bridge collapse believed dead
Search for construction workers now ‘recovery operation,’ says Maryland police chief; safety czar promises investigation, ‘but right now it’s about people’
By Aziz El Massassi
A photo from the Flagler County Sheriff Office shows the homemade hamster wheel used by Reza Baluchi in Palm Coast, Florida on July 24, 2021.
September 8, 2023, 4:44 am
Florida man indicted after trying to cross Atlantic via hamster wheel
Reza Baluchi charged with obstruction of boarding after being stopped by Coast Guard officers who deemed he was conducting a ‘manifestly unsafe voyage’
By AP
Debris from the Titan submersible, recovered from the ocean floor near the wreck of the Titanic, is unloaded from the ship Horizon Arctic at the Canadian Coast Guard pier in St. John's, Newfoundland, Wednesday, June 28, 2023. (Paul Daly/The Canadian Press via AP)
June 29, 2023, 6:13 am
Likely human remains recovered from imploded deep-sea sub Titan
Investigators pull submersible debris on shore in hopes of finding clues about catastrophic failure during descent toward Titanic wreck, killing all five on board
By PATRICK WHITTLE
This undated photo provided by OceanGate Expeditions shows the company's Titan submersible, which went missing in June 2023 on its way to document the wreckage of the Titanic. (OceanGate Expeditions via AP)
June 20, 2023, 5:28 pm
Rescuers race the clock to locate missing submersible bound for Titanic wreckage
US Coast Guard leads search for Titan and the five people aboard, warns that it is ‘a challenge to conduct a search in that remote area’
By Ben Finley and HOLLY RAMER
ILLUSTRATIVE -- In this Nov. 30, 2017, file photo, American soldiers wait on the tarmac in Logar province, Afghanistan (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul, File)
January 1, 2022, 10:00 am
US fails to stamp out far-right extremism in military despite decades of efforts
Racism still a concern with service members not barred from membership of groups such as KKK; Black, Hispanic service members disproportionately court-martialed
By Kat Stafford and JAMES LaPORTA
A photo of firearms and ammunition that was in the motion for detention pending trial in the case against US Coast Guard officer Christopher Paul Hasson. (Maryland US District Attorney's Office via AP, File)
January 22, 2020, 8:10 am
US officials seek 25-year sentence for Coast Guard member accused of terror plot
Prosecutors say Christopher Hasson has been a ‘closet skinhead’ for decades, stockpiled weapons and searched ‘how to rid the us of jews’; lawyers dispute claim, ask for leniency
By Michael Kunzelman
A member of the Uniformed U.S. Secret Service stands guard outside of the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House on November 26, 2019 in Washington, DC. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images/AFP)
November 27, 2019, 9:33 am
White House briefly locked down over mystery ‘blob’ overhead
Officials deny fighter jets scrambled; helicopter finds nothing when deployed to check what initially appeared to be an unidentified aircraft, but may have been a flock of birds
By AFP
A photo of firearms and ammunition that was in the motion for detention pending trial in the case against US Coast Guard officer Christopher Paul Hasson. (Maryland US District Attorney's Office via AP, File)
October 3, 2019, 8:42 am
US Coast Guard lieutenant expected to plead guilty in gun case
Prosecutors say Christopher Hasson, accused of stashing weapons, drafting hit list of Democrats and journalists, is domestic terrorist, but haven’t filed terrorism-related charges
By Michael Kunzelman
Israeli paratroopers pose alongside American soldiers during the US-led Swift Response exercise in Europe in June 2018. (Israel Defense Forces)
August 20, 2019, 6:29 pm
Defense officials from around world visit Israel for security briefing
Delegation organized by Our Soldiers Speak group meets with Israeli lawmakers, diplomats and members of the security forces during stay in country
By Marcy Oster
False Cape State Park, Virginia Beach, Va., September 2005. (CC BY-SA 3.0 Wikipedia)
July 15, 2019, 12:59 am
Police find body believed to be US rabbi who jumped in ocean to save student
Reuven Bauman ‘acted heroically’ when he plunged into choppy Virginia waters after youngster struggled to return to shore in area where swimming is prohibited
By ToI Staff
Illustrative -- A US Coast Guard Station Los Angeles-Long Beach 45-foot Response Boat-Medium crew conducts a hoist demonstration with a Coast Guard Air Station San Francisco-Forward Operating Base Point Mugu MH-65 Dolphin helicopter crew in the Port of Los Angeles, on March 21, 2019 (Seaman Ryan Estrada/U.S. Coast Guard via AP)
July 11, 2019, 11:12 am
US Coast Guard calls off search for rabbi who jumped in ocean to save student
Reuven Bauman ‘acted heroically’ when he plunged into choppy Virginia waters after youngster struggled to return to shore in area where swimming is prohibited
By ToI Staff and JTA
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