Page 8 The Skanner December 28, 2016
A Look Back At 2016
AP Poll: US Election Voted Top
News Story of 2016
Trump victory, Brexit, police brutality top editors’
list of big stories
NEW YORK — The tur-
bulent U.S. election, fea-
turing Donald Trump’s
unexpected victory over
Hillary Clinton in the
presidential race, was
the overwhelming pick
for the top news story of
2016, according to The
Associated Press’ annual
poll of U.S. editors and
news directors.
“
traces back to June 2015,
when Donald Trump de-
scended an escalator in
Trump Tower, his bas-
tion in New York City, to
announce he would run
for president. Widely
viewed as a long shot,
with an unconventional
campaign featuring rau-
cous rallies and pugna-
cious tweets, he outlast-
ed 16 Republican rivals.
Among the Democrats,
Hillary Clinton beat
ble, final details of the
withdrawal might not be
known until the spring
of 2019.
3. BLACK MEN
KILLED BY POLICE
One day apart, police in
Baton Rouge, Louisiana,
fatally shot Alton Ster-
ling after pinning him to
the ground, and a white
police officer shot and
killed Philando Castile
during a traffic stop in
a suburb of Minneapo-
Most of the other stories among the Top 10 re-
flected a year marked by political upheaval,
terror attacks and racial divisions
The No. 2 story also
was a dramatic upset —
Britons’ vote to leave the
European Union. Most of
the other stories among
the Top 10 reflected a
year marked by political
upheaval, terror attacks
and racial divisions.
Last year, develop-
ments related to the Is-
lamic State group were
voted as the top story
— the far-flung attacks
claimed by the group,
and the intensifying
global effort to crush it.
The first AP top-stories
poll was conducted in
1936, when editors chose
the abdication of Brit-
ain’s King Edward VIII.
Here are 2016’s top 10
stories, in order:
1. U.S. ELECTION
This year’s top story
back an unexpectedly
strong challenge from
Bernie Sanders, and won
the popular vote over
Trump. But he won key
Rust Belt states to get
the most electoral votes,
and will enter the White
House with Republicans
maintaining control of
both houses of Congress.
2. BREXIT
Confounding pollsters
and oddsmakers, Brit-
ons voted in June to leave
the European Union,
triggering financial and
political upheaval. Da-
vid Cameron resigned
as prime minister soon
after the vote, leaving
the task of negotiating an
exit to a reshaped Con-
servative government
led by Theresa May. Un-
der a tentative timeta-
lis. Coming after several
similar cases in recent
years, the killings rekin-
dled debate over policing
practices and the Black
Lives Matter movement.
4. PULSE NIGHTCLUB
MASSACRE
The worst mass shoot-
ing in modern U.S. his-
tory unfolded on Latin
Night at the Pulse, a gay
nightclub in Orlando.
The gunman, Omar Ma-
teen, killed 49 people
over the course of three
hours before dying in
a shootout with SWAT
team members. During
the standoff, he pledged
allegiance to the Islamic
State.
5. WORLDWIDE
TERROR ATTACKS
Across the globe, ex-
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By DAVID CRARY
AP National Writer
Clinton Clinches Nomination
In June, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton declared victory in her yearlong battle
for the heart of the Democratic party, seizing her place in history as the first female candidate of
a major party and setting out on the difficult task of fusing a fractured party to confront Donald
Trump.
tremist attacks flared at a
relentless pace through-
out the year. Among
the many high-profile
attacks were those that
targeted airports in
Brussels and Istanbul,
a park teeming with
families and children in
Pakistan, and the sea-
front boulevard in Nice,
France, where 86 people
were killed when a truck
plowed through a Bastille
Day celebration. In Iraq
alone, many hundreds of
civilians were killed in
repeated bombings.
6. ATTACKS ON
POLICE
Ambushes and target-
ed attacks on police offi-
cers in the U.S. claimed
at least 20 lives. The vic-
tims included five offi-
cers in Dallas working to
keep the peace at a pro-
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cars.
7. DEMOCRATIC
PARTY EMAIL LEAKS
Hacked emails, dis-
closed by WikiLeaks,
revealed at-times em-
barrassing details from
Democratic Party oper-
atives in run-up to Elec-
tion Day, leading to the
resignation of Democrat-
ic National Committee
chair Debbie Wasser-
man Schultz and other
DNC officials. The CIA
later concluded that Rus-
sia was behind the DNC
hacking in a bid to boost
Donald Trump’s chances
of beating Hillary Clin-
ton.
8. SYRIA
Repeated
cease-fire
negotiations failed to
halt relentless warfare
among multiple factions.
With Russia’s help, the
government forces of
President Bashar Assad
finally seized rebel-held
portions of the city of
Aleppo, at a huge cost in
terms of deaths and de-
struction.
9. SUPREME COURT
After Justice Antonin
Scalia’s death in Febru-
ary, President Obama
nominated Merrick Gar-
land, chief judge of the
U.S. Court of Appeals for
the District of Columbia
Circuit, to fill the vacan-
cy. However, majority
Republicans in the Sen-
ate refused to consider
the nomination, opting
to leave the seat vacant
so it could be filled by
the winner of the presi-
dential election. Donald
Trump has promised to
appoint a conservative
in the mold of Scalia.
10. HILLARY
CLINTON’S EMAILS
Amid the presidential
campaign, the FBI con-
ducted an investigation
into Clinton’s use of a
private computer server
to handle emails she sent
and received as secre-
tary of state. FBI Director
James Comey criticized
Clinton for careless-
ness but said the bureau
would not recommend
criminal charges.
Stories that did not
make the top 10 included
Europe’s migrant crisis,
the death of longtime
Cuban leader Fidel Cas-
tro, and the spread of the
Zika virus across Latin
America and the Carib-
bean.
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