Politics

After the Oak Creek massacre, Elk Grove detectives probed whether the 2011 drive-by slayings of two Sikh grandfathers were linked to Wisconsin.

After the Oak Creek gurudwara shooting, a look back: early Punjabi immigrants in California built lives under prejudice — and married across cultures.

For the first time in 2012, Mitt Romney crossed 40% with 18–29-year-olds in a JZ Analytics poll — a warning sign for Obama’s youth-vote machine.

Paul Ryan became Mitt Romney’s VP pick in August 2012 — and instantly a political sex symbol, as P90X fame and shirtless photos broke the internet.

Mitt Romney picked Paul Ryan as his 2012 running mate — energizing the GOP base while handing Democrats the potent attack line of the Ryan Budget.

Around 60 Hindu families from Pakistan's Balochistan and Sindh arrived in India in August 2012, fleeing violence, kidnappings and forced conversions.

Russian police found 70 members of the Fayzarahmanist sect — including 20 children — living in an underground bunker near Kazan for nearly a decade.

Handwritten posters by Jharkhand Mukti Sangh in Ranchi threatened acid attacks on girls wearing jeans or without a dupatta from Aug 20, 2012.

Anuradha Bali alias Fiza, the estranged second wife of former Haryana deputy CM Chander Mohan, was found dead in Mohali and cremated per Hindu rites.

At least seven people, including the gunman, were killed in a shooting at the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin in Oak Creek on Aug. 5, 2012.

Grids supplying half of India collapsed on July 31, 2012 — the world's biggest blackout — even as Power Minister Sushilkumar Shinde was promoted to Home

The Romney campaign launched the 'Mitt's VP' app on July 31, 2012, letting supporters be the first to learn his vice presidential pick via push notification.

CFSL scientist BK Mahapatra told a Ghaziabad court that blood on Aarushi's clothes and mattress was her own, and fingerprints of both Aarushi and Hemraj

A Hindu boy named Sunil converted to Islam live on Pakistani TV during Ramazan 2012, sparking outrage and a threatened lawsuit from his employer Ansar Burney.

A Mayawati statue near the Ambedkar Memorial in Lucknow was beheaded in July 2012, days after the UP Navnirman Sena threatened to tear down her statues.

Five things known about James Holmes after his first court appearance: his past, his dating profiles, and how he spent months preparing the attack.

Syria publicly admitted for the first time to possessing chemical and biological weapons in July 2012, warning they could be used against foreign attack.

Genevieve Cook, Barack Obama's New York girlfriend, kept a diary. David Maraniss's biography reveals what she wrote about the young future president.

Ethnic clashes between Bodos and Bengali Muslims erupted in Assam's Kokrajhar and Chirang in July 2012, killing dozens and displacing 400,000 people.

Critics charge that Sonia Gandhi's Congress rewards loyalty to the Nehru-Gandhi family over merit. In 2012, the UP election rout put that charge to a test.