Cisco Systems captured headlines throughout 2016 as the company underwent major internal restructuring, spent around $3 billion on acquisitions and had a spike in security revenues unlike ever before.

Top, from left: Dakota Access pipeline (Stephanie Keith/Reuters), Arctic ice (NASA/AP), North Carolina flooding (Carlo Allegri/Reuters). Middle, from left: Drug prices (Gilles Mingasson/AP), Prison ...

When it came to dominating the headlines, a presidential election and corporate scandals garnered the most interest during 2016. Although the year had its share of mergers, acquisitions, new ...

Many say 2016 has been the worst year ever, but these amazing animal news stories may change your mind Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2013. Her work ...

As 2016 passes, and we look forward to the year ahead, here is my fourth annual list of the ten best long-form stories about technology from last year. (For my list of the best technology books of ...

The party was epic, Chicago! The Cubs are finally World Series champions and the city celebrated their victory with a North Side parade and rally in Grant Park. 2. Doug Banks, radio and TV personality ...

The 2016 MLB season featured all kinds of incredible and jaw-dropping stories, from the Cubs' first championship in 108 years to the retirements of Vin Scully and David Ortiz to the death of Jose ...

From photography, illustration and video, to data visualizations and immersive experiences, visuals are an important part of our storytelling at NPR. Interwoven with the written and the spoken word, ...

The 2017 NASCAR season is less than two months away but that doesn’t mean that we have to completely close the door on the 2016 season. This past year gave NASCAR fans more than enough moments to ...

The Cubs broke a 108-year curse in epic fashion. Lebron produced “The Block” and a championship for starving Cleveland fans. UNC and Villanova put on one hell of a show. Leicester City won the most ...

From the unveiling of the world's biggest cruise ship to the launch of the first voyages from the USA to Cuba in decades, it was a year of milestones in the cruise world. Other notable newcomers in ...

For HPE, 2016 was a year of blockbuster spin in mergers and deals aimed at making the company a smaller, faster-moving, more innovative next generation infrastructure hybrid computing superpower.