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WASHINGTON AP 鈥?Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell on Tuesday responded to concerns from Republican lawmakers about spiking inflation by reiterating his view that current price increases will likely prove temporary.Watch the hearing in the video player above.Consumer prices jumped聽5 percent in May compared with a year ea
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Trump officials scrambled Thursday to clarify new citizenship rules for children born outside of the United States to American military personnel and other govern
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stanley cup widespread confusion. A memo from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services on Wednesday announced changes that mean some of those children will no longer automatically be considered U.S. citizens and will face more red tape to secure citizenship. USCIS officials made the clarifications in a conference call with reporters Thursday after initial reports suggested the policy included more sweeping changes. We could have communicated this a lot better, but it is almost nothing, USCIS Director Ken Cuccinelli told PBS NewsHour managing editor and anchor Judy Woodruff later on Thursday.Here is what we know about who the policy affects and why it was implemented. Who is affected and who isntUnder U.S. law, any child born in the U.S. is considered a citizen at birth. That is called birthright citizenship, and Cuccinelli said the new policy does not change that. The only thing that has changed here is the forms they have to fill out, the process they have to go
mizuno through to get that child to be a U.S. citizen. That is it. We didnt change a single person who would or could become a U.S. citizen, Cuccinelli told the PBS NewsHour.If a child is born to an American parent outside of the U.S., the rules can be complicated. In most cases, people who have at leas
