Here are a few pieces America editors wish had made it on to those top-ten lists but didn't:

Are Trump and Putin about to begin a new nuclear arms race?

The truce does not include the Islamic State group or al-Qaida's branch in Syria. Several previous ceasefires all collapsed, some of them in a matter of days.

Bishop Vásquez points out that there are more than 740,000 young people who have received and benefitted from DACA.

The ruling Communist Party has long feared that opposition to its rule could be spread by religious and other civic groups outside its control.

Cardinal Bechara Rai, patriarch of Maronite Catholics, appealed to the international community to work to end terrorism "that is killing and displacing families and depriving them of their rights and dignities."