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The youngest of nine children, she was born in 1991 in Salinas and later moved to Merced, where she grew up on a 10-acre farm.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 1, 2026

The kits born last week appear in the evening and local residents in Paradise Fields have been gathering with cameras to film the mother and her babies after dark.

From BBC • Jul. 1, 2026

Wong Kim Ark, in which the court found that Wong Kim Ark was a U.S. citizen because he was born in San Francisco.

From Barron's • Jun. 30, 2026

Birthright citizenship comes from the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, which reads, in part, “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States.”

From Slate • Jun. 30, 2026

I knew this because I was born less than forty miles from where I was stranded now.

From "Black Star, Bright Dawn" by Scott O'Dell