You can use a short-form birth certificate for most purposes, including obtaining a driver's license or passport. But there are particular times when the long form is required, ...

Mr. Obama had in 2008 released on the Internet his "certificate of live birth" -- a short-form birth certificate provided to all Hawaiians as proof of birth in state -- but that failed to quell ...

President Barack Obama speaks to reporters about the controversy over his birth certificate and true nationality, Wednesday, April 27, 2011, at the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott ...

Like most people, I had discarded the issue about President Obama's birth certificate long ago as without merit. Recently, though, possible Republican presidential contender Donald Trump has ...

Previously the state Department of Health issued a short form version of the actual birth certificate. Those are no longer valid and you need to get the new long form.

Until yesterday, the White House said the previously released short form of the birth certificate, which Hawaiians get upon request and which counts to get a driver’s license or passport, was ...

I certainly get why National Review, among others, is pressing Joseph Farah, World Net Daily, and others who’ve been aggressively pushing the matter of President Obama’s birth certificate and ...

When President Obama released his long-form birth certificate last week (remember when that was a big story?), it wasn’t clear how convincing the document would be for people who already ...

President Barack Obama released the long-form version of his birth certificate, yet another piece of concrete evidence that shows he was born in the United States. The White House said he received a ...

Even before President Obama released his long-form birth certificate Wednesday morning, it was obvious to anyone who had examined the evidence that the president was born in the United States. Yet ...

Long ago, Obama released the short-form Hawaiian certificate of live birth. “Yet this thing just keeps on going,” he said. “Now, ...

Obama had released a standard short form of his birth certificate before he was elected in 2008 but requested copies of his original birth certificate from Hawaii officials in hopes of killing ...