It's been challenging to keep up with the seemingly never-ceasing news cycle of late, but some stories drew more eyes than others in 2018. Since 1936, the Associated Press has conducted an annual poll of US editors and news directors to see which were the top news stories of the past 12 months, and this year's top pick covered "an act of senseless hate": the Parkland school shooting. Others that made the list ranged from the political to the environmental. The winners leaned toward US headlines, which, considering those voting are US-based, isn't too surprising. Though in that very first poll, the top story was an international one: the abdication of Britain's King Edward VIII. Read on for the AP's 2018 selections.
- Parkland school shooting
- Trump-Russia probe
- #MeToo movement
- Mass shootings
- 2018 midterms
- US immigration
- Brett Kavanaugh hearings
- California wildfires
- Climate change
- Jamal Khashoggi murder
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