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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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.” ...

A candidate’s race, ethnicity or gender are no longer factors considered for admission to the United States Naval Academy. That recent admission policy change at the 179-year-old service academy comes ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — The U.S. Naval Academy ...