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Americans abroad renounced citizenship in record numbers in the early 2010s — FATCA, citizenship-based taxation, and compliance costs drove the trend.

April 16, 2012 · 1 min read

A 2012 editorial discussion asked whether civil-service vetting was re-victimizing child-marriage survivors — and why the law's letter can fail its spirit.

April 16, 2012 · 3 min read

India tested the Agni-V ballistic missile on April 19, 2012 — a 5,000-km canisterized ICBM that brought Beijing within range for the first time.

April 16, 2012 · 3 min read

Barack Obama's 'we didn't have the luxury' remark about Michelle's $316,962 hospital salary — a gaffe about privilege, debt, and the politics of working

April 12, 2012 · 1 min read

Best Buy CEO Brian Dunn resigned after an investigation found an inappropriate relationship with a female employee — and chairman Richard Schulze knew.

April 12, 2012 · 1 min read

In April 2012 a Ghaziabad court issued a non-bailable warrant for Nupur Talwar in the Aarushi murder case; the CBI said she was missing from her Noida home.

April 11, 2012 · 1 min read

William Todd, 24, is accused of 10 felonies in 9 hours during a Greyhound layover in Nashville — a bar robbery, a carjacking, a Walmart run, and a hideout

April 10, 2012 · 3 min read

Days after the US put a $10 million bounty on Hafiz Saeed, a Pakistani counter-terrorism official said the JuD chief had been helping de-radicalize militants.

April 9, 2012 · 1 min read

A 2012 Elle profile revealed the Secretary of State's top aides were plotting a revolt — not over policy, but over her beloved Eighties scrunchie.

April 9, 2012 · 2 min read

A no-touch energy therapy from Choa Kok Sui working with prana and chakras; crystal healing adds gemstones. Not medical advice.

April 7, 2012 · 2 min read

Volume 8: spring calls for restraint — vivid-green palak paneer, cold cucumber-mint raita, simple basmati, and thin roomali roti.

April 6, 2012 · 1 min read

Bundler Abake Assongba raised $50,000 for Obama's re-election — then was accused of defrauding a businessman of $650,000 and impersonating a bank official.

April 2, 2012 · 2 min read

Promoting Titanic 3D, Kate Winslet told ITV's Daybreak that Leo DiCaprio is fatter now — and she's thinner. It was a joke between friends, she said.

April 2, 2012 · 1 min read

The Two and a Half Men star was cast as Steve Jobs in the indie biopic Jobs, announced in April 2012 — a year before it premiered at Sundance.

April 2, 2012 · 2 min read

Mitt Romney struggled to connect with voters. His wife Ann — warm, candid about MS and cancer — was the asset the Obama campaign couldn't coach against.

April 2, 2012 · 1 min read

The CDC put autism at 1 in 88 children in 2012. Behind the numbers — and the deficits they describe — are minds with their own distinct strengths.

April 1, 2012 · 2 min read

Summer 1989: an all-day date from the Art Institute to Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing to a Baskin-Robbins curb — and a chocolate first kiss.

April 1, 2012 · 2 min read

Fidel Merlos-Lopez was refused at the border on his way to bury his 10-year-old son, a U.S. citizen killed in a Pennsylvania house fire.

April 1, 2012 · 4 min read

A rainy-spring Friday menu: lamb keema with browned onions and peas, hand chapati, a carrot raita — and a glass of something cold.

March 30, 2012 · 1 min read

At a New York panel on young brains and video games, experts weighed the iPad's place in childhood: a powerful shelf of toys — or an electronic babysitter?

March 30, 2012 · 3 min read