A federal judge on Friday ruled that the U.S. Naval Academy may continue to consider race when evaluating candidates to attend the elite military school, even after last year's U.S. Supreme Court ...

In a landmark nomination that reshapes nearly two centuries of tradition, Marine Corps Lt. Gen. Michael J. Borgschulte has been tapped to serve as the next superintendent of the U.S. Naval Academy in ...

Sept 13 (Reuters) - The group that successfully convinced the U.S. Supreme Court to bar the consideration of race in college admissions is set to take the U.S. Naval Academy to trial on Monday in a ...

The Justice Department and a conservative legal group have jointly asked a federal appeals court to dismiss a challenge to race-based admissions at the U.S. Naval Academy, citing the military’s ...

ANNAPOLIS, Md. — The U.S. Naval Academy will no longer consider race, ethnicity or sex as a factor for admission to the service institution, a response to an executive order by President Donald Trump, ...

A little over a year after winning an end to affirmative action at the Supreme Court, Students for Fair Admissions is back in the courtroom. Yesterday marked the first day of trial in the group’s case ...

Laith Shannon said he was used to being among the few non-white officers during his military career, thinking that “at the end of the day, we were all Marines and we all wore the same uniform.” Still, ...

A group that successfully challenged affirmative action at the Supreme Court had also sued the military academies. But, the judge said, “the U.S. Naval Academy is distinct from a civilian university.” ...