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In reversal, Coast Guard again classifies swastikas, nooses as hate symbols

By Tara Copp, Michelle Boorstein, Hari Raj, Victoria Bisset
Nov 21, 2025 8:37 am - The U.S. Coast Guard issued a new, more stringent policy on hate symbols including the swastika Thursday night, prohibiting “divisive or hate symbols or flags.” The change came hours after The Washington Post reported that the service would instead classify such symbols as “potentially divisive” under new guidelines set to be released next month.
US delivers peace plan for Ukraine, sparking fears of ‘capitulation’

By Catherine Belton, Ellen Francis, Dan Lamothe and Siobhán O'Grady
Nov 20, 2025 9:22 pm - LONDON — A U.S. military delegation led by Army Secretary Daniel Driscoll delivered Thursday a new draft proposal to end the war in Ukraine even as European and Ukrainian...
Layoffs are piling up, raising worker anxiety. Here are some companies that have cut jobs recently

By WYATTE GRANTHAM-PHILIPS
Nov 20, 2025 9:18 pm - Amid wider economic uncertainty, some analysts have said that businesses are at a “no-hire, no fire” standstill. That's caused many to limit new work to only a few specific roles, if not pause openings entirely. At the same time, sizable layoffs have continued to pile up — raising worker anxieties across sectors.
Dramatic photos of doomed UPS plane show the aircraft on fire and its engine flying off

By BRUCE SCHREINER
Nov 20, 2025 9:16 pm - LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Frame by frame, six photos released by federal investigators on Thursday graphically captured horrifying images of ill-fated Flight 2976 as it turned in...
Prosecutors quiz witness on Ed Martin, Bill Pulte moves in Schiff case

By Perry Stein, Rachel Siegel and Katie Mettler
Nov 20, 2025 7:28 pm - Federal prosecutors spent more than an hour Thursday questioning a California Republican activist about her contact with Trump administration officials over their mortgage fraud investigation into Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), the woman told The Washington Post.
US Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols

By Tara Copp and Michelle Boorstein
Nov 20, 2025 7:21 pm - The U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify the swastika — an emblem of fascism and white supremacy inextricably linked to the murder of millions of Jews and the deaths of more than 400,000 U.S. troops who died fighting in World War II — as a hate symbol, according to a new policy that takes effect next month.
FBI fired veteran employee for displaying Pride flag, lawsuit says

By Victoria Bisset
Nov 20, 2025 7:13 pm - A former employee at the Federal Bureau of Investigation is suing the bureau and the Justice Department, saying he was fired for displaying a Pride flag in his workspace.
Federal prosecutors move to dismiss charges against woman shot by Border Patrol agent in Chicago

By CHRISTINE FERNANDO
Nov 20, 2025 6:58 pm - Federal prosecutors moved Thursday to dismiss charges against a woman who was shot several times by a Border Patrol agent last month during the federal immigration crackdown in the Chicago area.
Federal immigration crackdown ends in Charlotte, North Carolina, sheriff says

By GARY D. ROBERTSON
Nov 20, 2025 11:53 am - CHARLOTTE, N.C. — A federal immigration crackdown based in North Carolina’s largest city that authorities said led to hundreds of arrests is now over, a local law enforce...
CDC website changed to contradict scientific conclusion that vaccines don’t cause autism

By MIKE STOBBE
Nov 20, 2025 11:51 am - NEW YORK — A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website has been changed to contradict the longtime scientific conclusion that vaccines do not cause autism, spurr...

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