Just five states, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Missouri and Texas, accounted for all U.S. executions in 2016.

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?

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

Speaking from Baghdad on Dec. 14, Kevin Hartigan, Catholic Relief Services' regional director for the Middle East, Central Asia and Europe told America that his team was bracing for what may be unprecedented numbers of people in flight from the contested city.

The struggle to liberate Mosul from ISIS militants has entered a third month of often savage combat.

New Yorkers can be forgiven if they believed homelessness were a problem consigned to the past.

“Pope Francis—and myself, we’re sons of a church and a living church.”

The Jesuit presidents wrote they are called "to embrace the entire human family, regardless of their immigration status or religious allegiance.”

Authorities today were still trying to ascertain a motive for the attack.