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ByDavidCrary TheAssociatedPress NEW YORK The turbu- lent U.S. election, featur- ing Donald Trump's unex- pected victory over Hillary Clinton in the presidential race, was the overwhelm- ing pick for the top news story of 2016, according to The Associated Press' an- nual poll of U.S. editors and news directors. 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 at- tacks and racial divisions. Last year, developments related to the Islamic State group were voted as the top story — the far-flung at- tacks 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 ab- dication of Britain's King Edward VIII. Here are 2016's top 10 stories, in order: 1.USelection This year's top story traces back to June 2015, when Donald Trump de- scended an escalator in Trump Tower, his bastion in New York City, to an- nounce he would run for president. Widely viewed as a long shot, with an un- conventional campaign fea- turing raucous rallies and pugnacious tweets, he out- lasted 16 Republican rivals. Among the Democrats, Hill- ary Clinton beat back an unexpectedly strong chal- lenge 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 maintain- ing control of both houses of Congress. 2. Brexit Confounding pollsters and oddsmakers, Britons voted in June to leave the European Union, trigger- ing financial and political upheaval. David Cameron resigned as prime minister soon after the vote, leav- ing the task of negotiating an exit to a reshaped Con- servative government led by Theresa May. Under a tentative timetable, 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 Sterling after pinning him to the ground, and a white police officer shot and killed Phi- lando Castile during a traf- fic stop in a suburb of Min- neapolis. Coming after sev- eral similar cases in recent years, the killings rekindled debate over policing prac- tices and the Black Lives Matter movement. 4. Pulse nightclub massacre The worst mass shoot- ing in modern U.S. history unfolded on Latin Night at the Pulse, a gay night- club in Orlando. The gun- man, Omar Mateen, killed 49 people over the course of three hours before dying in a shootout with SWAT team members. During the standoff, he pledged alle- giance to the Islamic State. 5. Worldwide terror attacks Across the globe, ex- tremist attacks flared at a relentless pace throughout 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 seafront 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 targeted attacks on police officers in the U.S. claimed at least 20 lives. The victims included five officers in Dallas work- ing to keep the peace at a protest over the fatal police shootings of black men in Minnesota and Louisiana. Ten days after that attack, a man killed three officers in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. In Iowa, two policemen were fatally shot in separate am- bush-style attacks while sit- ting in their patrol cars. 7. Democratic party email leaks Hacked emails, disclosed by WikiLeaks, revealed at- times embarrassing details from Democratic Party op- eratives in run-up to Elec- tion Day, leading to the resignation of Democratic National Committee chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz and other DNC officials. The CIA later concluded that Russia was behind the DNC hacking in a bid to boost Donald Trump's chances of beating Hillary Clinton. 8. Syria Repeated cease-fire ne- gotiations failed to halt re- lentless warfare among multiple factions. With Rus- sia'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 February, President Obama nomi- nated Merrick Garland, chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, to fill the vacancy. However, ma- jority Republicans in the Senate refused to consider the nomination, opting to leave the seat vacant so it could be filled by the win- ner of the presidential elec- tion. Donald Trump has promised to appoint a con- servative in the mold of Sca- lia. 10. Hillary Clinton's emails Amid the presidential campaign, the FBI con- ducted an investigation into Clinton's use of a pri- vate computer server to handle emails she sent and received as secretary of state. FBI Director James Comey criticized Clinton for carelessness but said the bureau would not rec- ommend criminal charges. Stories that did not make the top 10 included Europe's migrant crisis, the death of longtime Cuban leader Fi- del Castro, and the spread of the Zika virus across Latin America and the Ca- ribbean. US e le ct io n vo te d to p ne ws s to ry o f 20 16 AP POLL TONYHICKS—THEASSOCIATEDPRESS This Thursday photo shows the front pages of various British newspapers in London reporting on Donald Trump winning the U.S. presidential election. NEVERGIVEUP UNTIL THEY BUCKLE UP. VISIT SAFERCAR.GOV/ KIDSBUCKLEUP VISIT SAFERCAR.GOV/ KIDSBUCKLEUP PLEASE RECYCLE THIS NEWSPAPER. By Gary D. Robertson and Emery P. Dalesio The Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. A deal to undo the North Carolina law known as the "bath- roombill"fellapartWednes- day night when legislators couldn't agree on a plan to the repeal the measure, a sign of the bitter political divide within the state. The North Carolina Gen- eral Assembly was called into a special session about nine months after they passed the law, which tar- nished the state's national image as major corpora- tions decided to pull up stakes, entertainers can- celed concerts and the NCAA and ACC moved sporting events away. The wide-ranging law's best-known provision re- quired transgender peo- ple to use restrooms in many public buildings cor- responding to the sex on their birth certificates. Op- ponents of the law called it discriminatory. The special session was set in motion thisweekwhen Democratic Gov.-elect Roy Cooper suc- cessfully lobbied the Char- lotteCityCounciltogutalo- cal nondiscrimination ordi- nancethatRepublicanshad blamedfornecessitatingthe statewide law. For months, Republi- cans had said if Charlotte repealed its ordinance, the legislature would consider repealing HB2. Republican Gov. Pat Mc- Crory called a special ses- sion Wednesday, but the deal fell apart when the GOP added a six-month moratorium on cities pass- ing nondiscrimination or- dinances for LGBT people. That caused Democrats to back away, calling it only a partial repeal. "This wasn't the deal," said Sen. Jeff Jackson, a Charlotte Democrat. "This bill breaks this deal. 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