World Politics

On Election Day 2012, President Obama made a surprise stop at a Chicago field office, congratulated Mitt Romney, and phone-banked volunteers himself.

France closed 20 embassies across the Muslim world in September 2012 after Charlie Hebdo's cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad — a landmark free-speech clash.

Jeff Truelove spoke out after his daughter Hannah, 16, was found dead in Georgia in 2012; her killer's conviction was upheld on appeal.

Days after the Norway children returned home, Indian papers reported another custody row in the US — a Bengali couple fearing the loss of their infant son.

After Obama's Charlotte acceptance speech in September 2012, both parties had their nominees: the race was essentially tied, Gallup showing Obama 47, Romney 46.

In 2012, Indian-Americans backed Obama by lopsided margins — up to 84% in exit polls. Immigration policy, more than economics, explains why.

In August 2012 Paul Ryan told a radio host he'd run a marathon in under three hours. The record said 4:01:25. A small fib with a long shadow.

Seventeen civilians, including two women, were beheaded in Helmand after a late-night music and dance party — in a Taliban-controlled district.

Pakistan won zero medals at London 2012 — and its own media joked the country could only sweep the medals if corruption were an Olympic sport.

Tropical Storm Isaac barreled toward the Gulf Coast on August 27, 2012 — forcing the GOP to delay its convention and reviving Katrina memories.

On the eve of her 2012 RNC speech, Ann Romney recalled Mitt curling up beside her through depression and MS — the campaign's humanizing mission.

A 2012 book by Rich Miniter claimed Obama scrapped three bin Laden missions before Hillary Clinton pushed the raid through — claims the White House denied.

An August 2012 report claimed one of Hitler's senior aides secretly urged British contacts to help topple the Fuhrer — warning peace was otherwise impossible.

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.