With new directives, Trump’s Pentagon chief zeroes in on admission to the nation’s service academies and purging “divisive” ...

Hegseth directed schools to rank applicants by an aggregate score factoring in athletic ability and past military experience, ...

Trump appointee writes that selecting anyone "but the best" for admission to the academies erodes "warfightiing readiness." ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered all military service academies to no longer consider race, ethnicity or sex for ...

Military academies must pursue merit, not affirmative action in admissions, according to Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth.

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Cadets at West Point are used to having their bodies, minds and spirits tested. Right now, school officials are also in a ...

Defense Department schools for service members’ children are removing books the Trump administration says focus on diversity, ...

Hegseth argued that merit-based admissions ... education admissions in a landmark ruling which struck down affirmative action programs at Harvard University and the University of North Carolina.

All but a few of the nearly 400 books that the U.S. Naval Academy removed from its library because they dealt with ...

When Phil Perlmutter objected to something I’d written, he was quick to tell me. The phone would ring, and when I answered it ...