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The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) has called upon the Republican Party’s presumptive nominee, Donald Trump, to formally renounce the support of American Freedom Party head William Daniel Johnson. Johnson, an attorney and white nationalist leader who has endorsed Trump’s candidacy, was initially selected as a delegate for California’s upcoming GOP primary. Writing under a series of pen names, Johnson has advocated what has been referred to as the “James O. Pace” Amendment to the US Constitution. Under Johnson’s proposed amendment, all non-Aryans, with the exception of Native Americans and Hawaiians, would be deprived of citizenship and deported from the United States....

Significant numbers of people are continuing to renounce their U.S. citizenship or end their long-term U.S. residency. ... The Treasury Department is required by law to publish a list of the names of people who renounce quarterly. The list doesn’t indicate when people did so or why. It also doesn’t distinguish between people giving up passports and those turning in green cards, or indicate what other nationality the individuals hold.

CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy — Pope Benedict XVI on Sunday called on people to renounce hatred in the face of the “deep sorrow” felt over the terror attacks in Norway. The pope urged people to pray for the dead, the wounded and their loved ones as he spoke to pilgrims and tourists from the balcony of his summer palace in Castel Gandolfo near Rome. “Unfortunately, yet again comes news of death and violence,” Benedict said at the start of his greetings to the faithful. “We all feel deep sorrow for the grave terrorist acts.” “I want to again repeat my grief-stricken...

In the fourth quarter of 2009, 502 U.S. citizens took an extraordinary step… they made the decision to permanently renounce citizenship in the U.S. and become expatriates. That doesn’t seem like a large number, but it is more than double the number of all such expatriations in 2008. Something is happening, and organizations of expatriates around the world say that it’s a growing dissatisfaction with the way the U.S. government treats citizens living abroad. The U.S. is unique among industrialized countries in being the only one that taxes its citizens who live and work overseas, in many cases subjecting them...

JERUSALEM - Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah Party will only form a coalition government with parties willing to negotiate with Israel and will not ask Hamas militants to join if they do not renounce violence, a top official said Sunday. However, Fatah's top candidate, jailed Palestinian uprising leader Marwan Barghouti, said Sunday that Fatah and Hamas "are heading toward being partners in the field, and in parliament." Barghouti, interviewed in an Israeli prison by the Arab satellite TV station Al-Jazeera, did not say what partnership he envisioned. Recent polls indicate that Fatah and Hamas are running neck-and-neck ahead of Wednesday's...

The new refugees. (Americans who give up citizenship to save on taxes) Forbes, Nov 21, 1994 v154 n12 p131(5) Authors: Lenzner, Robert; Mao, Philippe "I TALK TO A new client interested in expatriating every week. Many people can't pay the federal tax rate and live in the style they want." So said Francis Mirabello, the head of the personal law department at the Philadelphia office of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, speaking at a Bermuda conference on offshore money early this fall. Expatriating? Give up U.S. citizenship? Who in his right mind would give up his U.S. citizenship? Lots of people....

And Don't Come Back. (US citizens who renounce their citizenship for tax purposes face obstacles) Author: Lenzner, Robert Forbes, v158, n12, p44(2) Nov 18, 1996 ISSN: 0015-6914 LANGUAGE: English RECORD TYPE: Fulltext; AbstractWORD COUNT: 880 LINE COUNT: 00070ABSTRACT: Taxpatriates, those US citizens who give up their US citizenship in order to escape US taxes face two new obstacles. Congress passed a law in 1995 which makes expatriates liable for ten years of income tax following their departure. They must also apply for visas to re-enter the US.TEXT: AFTER DECADES of being a successful American industrialist, former Wheel-abrator-Frye Chairman Michael Dingman...