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Coast Guard Softens Stance on Hate and Hazing

A new servicewide policy recasts swastikas and nooses as merely “politically divisive” and deletes protections for transgender troops.

© Scott McIntyre for The New York Times

A member of the Coast Guard patrolling the waterways near President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida.
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Missouri Judge Who Wore Elvis Wig in Court Agrees to Resign

Judge Matthew E.P. Thornhill also talked about politics and played Elvis songs in court, a judicial commission said.

© St. Charles County Circuit Court

“Elvis was a super talent,” Matthew E.P. Thornhill, a circuit judge in St. Charles County, Mo., said last year in a local television interview. “If I just had Elvis’s hair, I’d be unstoppable.”
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U.S. Ambassador to Canada Channels Harsh Trump Tone

Pete Hoekstra’s bluntness is seen as undiplomatic by Canadian officials and interpreted as a way for the Trump administration to turn up the heat as trade talks drag on.

© Jeff Mcintosh/The Canadian Press, via Associated Press

Pete Hoekstra, the American ambassador to Canada, speaking in Banff, Alberta, in September.
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U.S. Manufacturers to Benefit as GE Appliances Shifts Production

The company, now owned by a Chinese conglomerate, is investing $150 million in 19 American suppliers across 10 states.

© Jon Cherry/Associated Press

Assembly at a GE Appliances plant in Louisville, Ky., in August. The company on Thursday announced contracts with suppliers in 10 states, as part of an effort to bring production back to U.S. soil.
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