An Alaska case highlights confusion over voting and citizenship rights for American Samoans. It has implications for Hawaiʻi and other states with large populations from the U.S. territory.

This story is by AP writers Mark Thiessen, Becky Bohrer and Gene Johnson

WHITTIER, Alaska (AP) — Squeezed between glacier-packed mountains and Alaska’s Prince William Sound, the cruise-ship stop of Whittier is isolated enough that it’s reachable by just a single road, through a long, one-lane tunnel that vehicles share with trains. It’s so small that nearly all its 260 residents live in the same 14-story condo building.

But Whittier also is the unlikely crossroads of two major currents in American politics: fighting over what it means to be born on U.S. soil and false claims by President Dona

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