US and Indian politics as they affect Indian Americans: elections, candidates, policy and the debates that reach the diaspora.
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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
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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.
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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.
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The Indian Express reported two Army units moved toward Delhi unannounced in January 2012. The government denied coup fears; Parliament was unconvinced.
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In April 2012 Al-Qaeda's main internet forums went silent for over a week — an unprecedented blackout analysts blamed on a coordinated cyber attack.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Bin Laden's youngest wife told Pakistani investigators about nine years on the run: at least five safe houses, four children born in Haripur and Abbottabad.
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California's prison physicians and psychiatrists topped state pay scales — some earning over $400,000. The numbers stunned, but the context matters more.
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The former IMF chief was charged with aggravated pimping in the Carlton Affair probe. Three years later, a French court acquitted him of the charges.
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When audience members fainted at Barack Obama's rallies, his response was unglamorous and dad-like: eat and drink before you come. Why the small moments worked.
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In March 2012, leaked emails showed Bashar al-Assad and Asma al-Assad shopping for luxury goods as the crackdown killed thousands. Inside the leak.
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As Leon Panetta's plane landed at Camp Bastion on March 14, 2012, an Afghan contractor drove a stolen truck onto the runway in a suicide-bomb attempt.
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After Super Tuesday 2012, Mitt Romney was the GOP frontrunner. What his managerial, crisis-room style said about the candidate — and the country choosing him.
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In March 2012, a child s severed fingers were found in a trash can at Honolulu s Kukui Gardens. The disturbing discovery — and the search for answers.
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In Bindol, West Bengal, families were selling kidneys for as little as Rs 30,000 to escape starvation. What the 2012 investigation found in the 'kidney
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IPS officer Narendra Kumar was run over while trying to stop illegal mining in Morena, Madhya Pradesh, in March 2012. The questions his death left behind.
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Anthony 'Chopper' Garcia collected $30,000 in unemployment benefits from inside an LA jail cell, with help from family outside. The AP story from 2012.
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