Miss America is getting rid of its swimsuit competition and will no longer judge contestants based on their "outward physical appearance," the organization announced Tuesday morning. "We are no longer ...

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. -- The first woman to win the Miss America crown without having to don a swimsuit says she's glad she didn't have to. Nia Imani Franklin, who won the title Sunday night in Atlantic ...

MUSKEGON, MI - The Miss America pageant began as a “bathing beauties revue” in 1921 with women in swimsuits as the focus. In 2018, the first Miss America who did not don a swimsuit on the national ...

Meet Miss America 2.0. Gretchen Carlson, a former Fox News anchor and current chair of the board of trustees of the Miss America Organization, announced radical new changes during an interview with ...

After sharing a comment that offended a wide swath of the pageant faithful, the Atlantic City-based Miss America Organization is apologizing to contestants who competed in the event’s swimsuit ...