WASHINGTON — President Obama dropped a birther bombshell yesterday, releasing his “long-form” birth certificate to try to finally stomp out a conspiracy theory that he wasn’… ...

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, such as "for ...

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 ...

I used that certificate to get my original driver’s license and my passport. It was good enough then. Now they say it is in a different format than what they require and I need to get a new one.

In the 1989 US Standard Birth Certificate revision, the format was finally uniformly adopted to include checkboxes to improve data quality and completeness.

Donald J. Trump’s eagerness to embrace the so-called birther idea (that President Obama was born outside the United States) led to the White House releasing in 2011 a copy of the president’s ...