A change in policy. I'm Lisa LaSara, Fox News. The U.S. Naval Academy has ended affirmative action in its admissions process. Internal guidance made public reveals the U.S. Naval Academy will no longer consider race, ethnicity or sex as a factor for admission. The guidance issued by the Academy's superintendent last month in response to President Trump's executive order
that every element of the armed forces should operate free from any preference based on race or sex. It also comes after a federal judge ruled in December that the academy could continue considering race in its admissions after a challenge from a group called Students for Fair Admissions.
The group appealing, and according to a court filing, the Justice Department is trying to suspend the briefing schedule in the case while all parties consider the change in the academy's policy. Fox's Kristen Goodwin. The University of Michigan has announced it's ending its diversity, equity, and inclusion program also due to President Trump's executive orders and funding uncertainty.
Columbia University has announced its interim president, Katrina Armstrong, will step aside and be replaced with the co-chair of its board of trustees, Claire Shipman. The move comes days after Columbia agreed to a host of policy changes demanded by the Trump administration as a condition of restoring $400 million in government funding.
Vice President J.D. Vance back in Washington after a trip to Greenland earlier today. Speaking at a Space Force base, he claims Greenland would be safer under the protection of the United States. We respect the self-determination of the people of Greenland. But my argument again to them is I think that you'd be a lot better having coming under the United States security umbrella than you have been under Denmark security umbrella.
Greenland is the self-governing territory of Denmark. The vice president's trip to Greenland was scaled back after protests in Greenland and Denmark. His wife, Usha, was to visit cultural sites over several days. America is listening to Fox News.
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A federal judge is weighing an extradition request in the case of a Columbia University graduate student at the center of a deportation case. The New Jersey judge did not rule during Friday's hearing, so the wait continues to see whether legal action against Mahmoud Khalil will be decided in Louisiana, as the Trump administration has requested.
Khalil was arrested March 8th by ICE agents for his role in pro-Palestinian demonstrations last year at Columbia University. The ACLU of New Jersey's Amol Sinha spoke to reporters outside the courthouse. It is anti-democratic, un-American, illegal, and unconstitutional to suppress speech, censor somebody, detain them, and attempt to deport them and revoke their green card.
for speaking their mind. Khalil is a legal U.S. resident married to an American citizen. In New York City, Tanya J. Powers, Fox News. Consumer prices increased 2.5 percent in February from a year earlier, matching January's annual pace. Excluding the volatile food and energy categories, prices rose 2.8 percent compared with a year ago, higher than January's figure of 2.7 percent.
There could be another spinoff of the drama series Yellowstone. A new Yellowstone spinoff focusing on John Dutton's youngest son, Casey, could be in the works. On the original show, Luke Grimes played Casey, the Navy SEAL turned livestock commissioner. Deadline says this series leans hard into Casey's SEAL past.
spinning it into a procedural, which would air on CBS. Add this untitled show to the growing pile of Yellowstone spinoffs created by Taylor Sheridan beyond 1883 and 1923 already on the air, and the first contemporary spinoff, The Madison, with Michelle Pfeiffer, which filmed last year. No air date yet. There are also rumors around a Beth and Rip spinoff starring Kelly Riley and Cole Hauser. Plus,
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