Sometimes, it’s hard to keep track what’s happening in the news, so for everyone’s sake, The Root is recapping some of the ...

One loophole in President Donald Trump’s executive order banning birthright citizenship could permit Chinese nationals, along with other non-citizens, to continue obtaining U.S. citizenship for their ...

More than 30 countries grant unrestricted birthright citizenship based on the ‘jus soli’ principle – and nearly all of them ...

The debate today depends on whether, in 1868, foreigners were considered 'subject to the jurisdiction' of the United States.

Since the adoption of the 14th Amendment in 1868, the United States has recognized birthright citizenship; that is, if a ...

Three soldiers on a Black Hawk and all 64 people aboard an airliner are feared dead after the UH-60 and an American Airlines ...

Second, well into the 20th century, white Europeans born on U.S. soil -- whose great-grandparents may have come on the ...

In a world where people are more mobile than ever, nations are struggling to recalibrate who can be a citizen.

Many people on the internet joked about OpenAI after the company complained about DeepSeek allegedly stealing data from them.

U.S. President Donald Trump has said since his first administration that he wants to end birthright citizenship, a ...

The woman behind USA Happy Baby, a "birth tourism" operation, was sentenced to years in prison for helping more than 100 ...

LOS ANGELES — A Rancho Cucamonga woman was sentenced Monday to more than 3 years in prison in a long-running case over a ...