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, ...

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 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 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 ...

The Trump administration has chosen a Marine officer to replace the first woman to lead the U.S. Naval Academy, trading out one history-making officer for another, well short of the typical three-year ...