Turning to the day's other headlines, in an about face, the U.S. Coast Guard will again classify swastikas and nooses as hate symbols.

That was the official stance for the past few years until earlier this month when officials issued a draft policy document calling those emblems potentially divisive.

That policy was due to take effect in December.

But after news reports

surfaced about the change, the Coast Guard issued a new memorandum saying, quote, these symbols

reflect hateful and prohibited conduct that undermines unit cohesion. The latest Coast Guard policy

appears to take effect immediately. In North Dakota, abortion is once again illegal after the

state's Supreme Court failed to reach the required majority to find a ban on the practice

unconstitutional. The state's only abortion provider left in 2022 and then challenged North Dakota's

abortion laws that same year. A legal saga ensued with the Republican-led legislature revising the state's laws to ban abortion outright.

With today's decision, North Dakota once again joins 12 other states with near total abortion bans.

In Ohio, a police officer was acquitted of all charges in the killing of Takaya Young, a pregnant black woman.

We, the jury upon our oaths of law, and evidence in this case find the defendant not guilty of murder as charges.

A jury found Connor Grubb not guilty on charges of murder, involuntary manslaughter, and felonious assault in the death of the 21-year-old.

Grub and another officer had responded to a call in August of 2023 after Young was accused of

shoplifting. Body cam footage shows Young declining to come out of her car before it rolled toward

Grub and he fired. DeKaya Young's family denies she stole anything and plans to continue a civil suit against the

local township and police chief.

Turning overseas in Nigeria, officials say gunmen kidnapped students and staff from a

Catholic school this morning in the second such attack this week.

The Christian Association of Nigeria says more than 200 school children and a dozen teachers were abducted in Niger state.

It's not clear who the attackers were.

...