Politics

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.

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.

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.

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.

California's prison physicians and psychiatrists topped state pay scales — some earning over $400,000. The numbers stunned, but the context matters more.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Putin's tears in Manezhnaya Square after winning Russia's 2012 election — genuine emotion, staged vulnerability, or something else? What that night meant.

China's 'Interviews Before Execution' put death-row prisoners on prime-time TV for 40 million viewers. The show, its host Ding Yu, and why it vanished.

A 2012 Denver investigation found welfare debit cards used at casinos and strip clubs. The story behind the headlines — and what actually changed.

In February 2012 Pakistan began demolishing the Abbottabad compound where Osama bin Laden was killed — erasing a building that had become an embarrassment

On February 13, 2012, a sticky bomb exploded on the car of an Israeli diplomat's wife near the PM's residence in Delhi — an attack India suspected Iran of.

India told Britain to keep its aid money: the Finance Ministry announced no further DFID funding beyond a transition period, a marker of a changed self-image.