The U.S. Naval Academy will no longer consider race, ethnicity or sex as a factor for admission to the service academy. That is according to court documents made public Friday. The change in policy was made in February by Vice Adm. Yvette Davids, the academy’s superintendent. According to court filings by the U.S. Justice Department in the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, the decision was made in response to an executive order issued by President Donald Trump in January. It directed an internal review with respect to all “activities designed to promote a race- or sex-based preferences system,” including at the service academies.

Israeli settlers attacked a Palestinian village in the southern Israeli-occupied West Bank. Security camera footage obtained by the Associated Press shows them beating residents with sticks and rocks. At one moment, multiple settlers are seen beating a teenager they have knocked to the ground. The footage provided rare clear images of the type of settler attack Palestinians say occurs frequently. It also appeared to conflict with the account of the attack provided by Israeli police and military, who say Palestinians attacked settlers. They arrested more than 20 Palestinians afterward.

A federal appeals court has lifted an order blocking Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency from further cuts at the U.S. Agency for International Development. Even before the ruling, the Trump administration on Friday took some of the last remaining steps in breaking up USAID. A Musk associate told staffers that by September the Trump administration will have eliminated “substantially all” USAID jobs. In a separate notice, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the administration had formally notified Congress on Friday of its plans to cut most USAID programs and move surviving functions under the State Department.

U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has landed in Mexico to cap off a tour to three Latin American nations to discuss immigration, crime and deportation. Noem’s first visit to the region comes as it gains increasing importance to the Trump administration while it attempts to scale up deportation efforts and warn against migration north. As Noem visited El Salvador and Colombia, Secretary of State Marco Rubio visited Guyana to meet with a number of Caribbean leaders. Noem met with Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum and other top Mexican officials. Sheinbaum’s government has been working to offset tariffs lodged by the Trump administration, which economic forecasters say could thrust Mexico's economy into a recession.

Wisconsin’s Democratic attorney general has asked a court to block billionaire Elon Musk from handing out $1 million checks to voters this weekend. The action Friday comes just days before the state’s hotly contested Supreme Court race was to be decided. Attorney General Josh Kaul filed the lawsuit in Dane County Circuit Court. Musk announced the planned Sunday event on his social media platform X. Musk initially said the money would go to voters in the Supreme Court race, then deleted that and said it would instead go to signers of his petition targeting “activist” judges.