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An Arizona sheriff facing a lawsuit by Latinos who claim they were racially profiled by his department is trying to revive the old controversy over President Barack Obama's birth certificate.Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio said at a news conference Tuesday that investigators working for him have concluded the document is not legitimate. Arizona's Democratic Party immediately insisted Arpaio was trying to draw attention away from problems within his own agency.A civil trial is set to begin Thursday in a lawsuit that accuses Arpaio's office of racially profiling Latinos. The suit is a precursor to a U.S. Justice Department lawsuit that alleges a broader range of civil rights violations against Arpaio's office.So-called "birthers" maintain Obama is ineligible to be president because, they contend, he was born in Kenya. However, Hawaii officials have repeatedly verified Obama's citizenship, and courts have rebuffed lawsuits over the issue."President Obama was born in Honolulu, and his b...
Will release put the issue to rest?
HONOLULU -- State officials in Hawaii on Monday said they have once again checked and confirmed that President Barack Obama was born in Hawaii and is a natural-born ...
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Hawaii lawmakers are moving closer to passing a measure allowing the state to ignore repeated requests for President Obama's birth certificate.A conference committee...
In a surprising move, the president of the United States took to the podium Wednesday to address an issue he and his staff had long thought was a done deal: to tout ...
All-Star panel weighs in on presidential race
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Amos Snead and Doug Thornell on whether the candidate should campaign with Donald Trump
Release of Obama birth certificate to end issue?
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Arizona's secretary of state says Hawaii's verification of President Barack Obama's birth records meets necessary requirements and that the president's name will app...
AZ secretary of state says matter is resolved
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio has unveiled preliminary results of an investigation, conducted by members of his volunteer cold-case posse, into the authenticity...
Did Whoppi play the race card on Wednesday? Yes, she did. And Whoopi Goldberg announced she was playing it while motioning with her hands as if she had a whole deck ...
A celebrity journalist now claims he misspoke when he said last week that Hawaii's governor told him he was unable to find President Barack Obama's original birth ce...
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More than a month before Donald Trump began his media blitzkrieg over the issue of President Obama 's birth certificate, the document was quietly moved to a more sec...