Tag Archives: citizenship
SALT 2013: Productive Spending Priorities and Government Consensus
LAS VEGAS (TheStreet) — An impassioned debate among politicians set the stage for Thursday’s Skybridge Alternative Investment (SALT) Conference sessions. Former Senator Scott Brown, Morgan Stanley Managing Director and former Congressman Harold Ford, former Chairman of the House Financial Services Committee Barney Frank and Karl Rove, the former deputy chief of staff to President George W Continue reading
Obama to Ohio State graduates: Be good citizens
President Obama asks new Ohio State graduates to practice citizenship Continue reading
Bipartisan Senate immigration plan to be unveiled
Bipartisan bill outlines steps for undocumented immigrants to get citizenship. Continue reading
Jeb Bush rankles bipartisan group over immigration
Former Florida governor opposes allowing illegal immigrants to attain U.S. citizenship. Continue reading
Bipartisan immigration plan holds promise: Our view
Pathway to legality? Yes.To citizenship? Continue reading
Tina Turner — Goodbye America … I’m Gonna Be a SWISS Citizen
William Tell may no longer be the most famous Swiss person in history … ’cause Tina Turner says she’s renouncing her U.S. citizenship to become a full-fledged citizen of Switzerland Continue reading
In protest, man chains himself to U.S. Embassy in Dominican Republic
SANTO DOMINGO (Reuters) – A man behind a multimillion-dollar lawsuit against the U.S. Embassy in the Dominican Republic chained himself to the building's fence in protest on Tuesday, claiming that a botched DNA test led officials to wrongly deny his daughter American citizenship while also ruining his marriage. Continue reading
French tycoon’s threat shakes Socialist tax plan
Bernard Arnault — the richest man in Europe — has ignited an uproar in France over taxes, citizenship, patriotism and what policies the government needs to promote growth. Continue reading
Germany arrests four men suspected of busting Iran embargo
BERLIN (Reuters) – German police have arrested four men suspected of delivering valves for a heavy water reactor to Iran, breaking an embargo on such exports to the Islamic Republic imposed over its disputed nuclear program. Prosecutors said some 90 customs officers arrested the men, a German and three with dual German-Iranian citizenship, at their homes in the northern cities of Hamburg and Oldenburg and the eastern town of Weimar, and searched flats and offices. … Continue reading
Socialite dumps US passport, most taxes
Denise Rich, the wealthy socialite and former wife of pardoned billionaire trader Marc Rich, has given up her U.S. Continue reading
