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President Trump signs executive actions and orders in the Oval Office of the White House on Monday, hours after taking office for his second term as the 47th president of the United States. Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images U.S. District Judge John C. Coughenour issued a ruling on Thursday temporarily […]
Rubio heading to Panama, other Latin American countriespublished at 20:07 Greenwich Mean Time 20:07 GMT Tom BatemanState Department Correspondent Image source, Gett Marco Rubio will travel next week to Panama, Guatemala, El Salvador, Costa Rica and the Dominican Republic, for his first foreign trip as Secretary of State. The visit comes after President Trump said […]
A new ruling blocking President Donald Trump’s executive order banning birthright citizenship is a blow to the new Trump administration, and comes as 22 U.S. states and immigrants rights groups have sued over it. (Alex Wong/Getty Images) A federal judge in Seattle on Thursday temporarily blocked President Donald Trump’s executive order banning birthright citizenship for […]
Donald Trump is trying to redefine who is allowed to be a U.S. citizen. On the first day of his presidency, Trump signed an order challenging a long-standing constitutional right that people born inside the U.S. are guaranteed citizenship. The right has been considered settled law since it was ratified as part of the Constitution […]
ACCRA, Ghana — She couldn’t help herself. After Nykisha Madison Keita officially became a citizen of Ghana during a ceremony last week, she didn’t expect what happened next. The 42-year-old Germantown native burst into tears. “I felt so overwhelmed,” she said. “I felt this huge weight being lifted off of me somehow.” That weight, Keita […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Saudi Arabia has forced a Florida retiree to try to renounce his American citizenship after jailing him over social media posts critical of the kingdom’s crown prince, according to the man’s son. The retiree, 74-year-old Saad Almadi, is one of at least four dual Saudi-American nationals who accuse Crown Prince Mohammed bin […]
ACCRA, Ghana — Flipping through a family album, Keachia Bowers paused on a photo of her as a baby on her father’s lap as he held the 1978 album “Africa Stand Alone” by the Jamaican reggae band Culture. “He joined the ancestors when I was 10 years old. I was supposed to come to Ghana […]
CHICAGO (WLS) — President-elect Donald Trump wants to end birthright citizenship in the U.S. Trump’s team is working on an executive order to limit automatic citizenship for people born in the U.S. ABC7 Chicago is now streaming 24/7. Click here to watch Chicago is a melting pot of nationalities. People hail from Mexico, Poland, Ukraine, […]
In the wake of the 2024 presidential election, many Americans, especially celebrities, have pledged to give up their citizenship and move elsewhere. For Americans exploring dual citizenship options or seeking a second passport, many countries offer pathways to citizenship based on ancestry. These countries often allow citizens of foreign nations to claim nationality through parents, […]
HENDERSON, Nev. (AP) — The 50-year-old newspaper was turning yellow and its edges fraying, so she had it laminated, not as a memento but as proof — America made a promise to her, and did not keep it. She pointed to the picture in the corner of her as a little girl in the rural […]