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Mexico, like the US, extends birthright citizenship to children born on its soil

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TIJUANA, Mexico — Vivianne Petit Frere’s brightly painted Haitian restaurant sits blocks from the towering U.S. border wall in Tijuana. Called Lakou Lakay, the name in Haitian creole means “home,” and it reflects her family’s deepening roots in their adopted homeland where her granddaughter was born two years ago, automatically making her a Mexican citizen. … Read more

The Holocaust’s youngest survivors: born in a labor camp, on a death train, and in a concentration camp

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This is an updated version of a story first published on Feb. 15, 2026. The original video can be viewed here.  May 2025 marked the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II in Europe and the liberation of the last remaining Nazi concentration camps. It might feel, nearly a century later, as though there … Read more

Born in the U.S.A.: Protecting the right of birthright citizenship

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Birthright citizenship is spelled out in the first line of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution: “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.” It means everyone born in the United States is automatically a … Read more

USPS unveils Route 66 centennial stamps, born from a photographer’s 42 trips

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SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — You’re standing in the middle of an empty highway, staring off into the fading, golden light of Arizona’s high desert. The soundtrack playing in your mind? Depeche Mode. Industrial-leaning synth-pop strains might seem incongruous with such a vista, but it was the alternative rock band’s homage to Route 66 that seduced David … Read more

Mountain gorilla twins born in national park for 2nd time this year:

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In a rare occurrence in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, twin mountain gorillas were recently born in the Virunga National Park, renowned for its biodiversity but threatened by conflict. “The twins, believed to be a female and a male, are approximately two weeks old and are being closely monitored by field teams,” the park … Read more