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2016 Wambach said that she makes a list of people she has disappointed and reaches out one by one. She just wants to be seen as an honest and nice person overall and doesn't want to hurt people.

¨I pick my public words just as carefully; I want them to sound like me—honest and straight, like someone willing to accept blame. I recognize a strange truth: after all the searching, the meditation, the drinking, the pills, the therapy, the solitary road trips, the tortured text exchanges, and the time spent living in my head, this colossal mistake will be the catalyst for getting to know myself again.¨ (chapter 23 page 216)

Outside source: Hillary Clinton became the first woman to be nominated to be president.

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With less than 30 days to go before we hit the New Year, most of us are already looking ahead and planning for 2017. We're thinking about 2017 business goals, scheduling everything for January, and setting some ambitious resolutions. Some of us might even forget that it's still 2016!

But before you write off this year, it's important to pause and take a moment to reflect on how you've changed. A year is a long time, and if you think back on everything that's happened in your personal and professional life in 2016, you might realize that you're ending the year a totally different person than when you started it.

Acknowledging how you've changed and grown is important for goal-setting and resolution-making. To get you started, here are ten world events that changed us all in 2016:
1. The U.S. Presidential Election
No matter your politics, the presidential election took its toll on everyone. The results left millions--and the world--shocked, and we are now navigating one of the most interesting transitions of power in history. However, this event is a great opportunity to be aware of how we present ourselves as leaders and engage in this political age.

The world was shocked to hear news that the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union--known as "Brexit." The full effects of this withdrawal from the political and economic agreement have yet to be seen, with many divided over whether this was a positive economic move for the United Kingdom.

The spread of the Zika virus throughout the Americas and the resulting Zika fever epidemic caused worldwide alarm. The effects of Zika are so extreme that health officials have urged women in affected areas to delay pregnancy anywhere between six months and two years. Zika is not just a threat to health; it threatens economic growth due to reduced tourism. Thankfully in November 2016, the World Health Organization announced the end of the epidemic, though Zika is still a major concern.
4. President Obama's official trip to Cuba
Following the 2015 announcement that the U.S. would renew formal relations with Cuba, President Obama became the first sitting U.S. president to visit Cuba since the 1920s. This was a historic visit that shows a long-term dedication to ease tensions between the two countries. And with the recent death of revolutionary leader Fidel Castro as well as the Trump presidency, we find ourselves re-focusing on the effects this will all have on politics, economics, and human rights.
5. The continued threat of ISIS
Sadly, this year was marked by many terrorist attacks from ISIS, including ones in Brussels, Iraq, and Pakistan. Now more than ever the global community must cooperate to combat these efforts. At the same time, the uneven reporting of terrorist attacks has drawn international criticism, as some tragedies are highly covered and other, often deadlier, events are ignored.
6. The Orlando nightclub shooting
Our nation was rocked by the Orlando nightclub shooting, which was the deadliest mass shooting in United States history. This event put heightened national attention on the issues of gun violence, gun control, LGBT rights, and American-Islamic relations.
7. The 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
The Olympics captured the attention of the entire world and was marked with many milestones: Rio became the first South American city to host the summer games, the United States celebrated having the most overall medals, and the International Olympic Committee shined the spotlight on the world refugee crisis by allowing the creation of the Refugee Olympic Team. However, the Olympics were not without controversy: many did not approve of the choice of Rio de Janeiro as host due to environmental and political concerns.
8. Standing Rock and the Dakota Access Pipeline Protests
Whether to move forward with plans for the Dakota Access Pipeline has been the talk of the nation recently. This issue is a symbol of the tug of war between numerous competing interests including our need to be energy independent, environmentally responsibility, job creation, preservation of Native American culture, and more.
9. The Syrian refugee crisis
Who can forget the devastating image of Alan Kurdi, the three-year-old boy photographed lifeless on the beach? Or five-year-old Omran Daqneesh, sitting in an ambulance injured and in shock after an airstrike in Aleppo? These haunting images have incited renewed public attention regarding the Syrian refugee crisis, its many victims, and the weak global response.

The opinions expressed here by Inc.com columnists are their own, not those of Inc.com.

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¨As he scans the documents, he asks if I’ve been drinking. I tell him I’ve just come from a dinner party, where I had a few glasses of wine. “Okay,” he says. “Well, your eyes are bloodshot, and I smell booze on your breath.” He asks me to submit to a field sobriety test, and I agree¨ (chapter 22 page 204)

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Outside source: Prince was found dead in his home.

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In many ways, 2016 was a year of extremes. The world saw a massive wave of political change brought on by right-wing populists in both Europe and the United States, a dizzying number of beloved celebrities took their last breaths and the world was impressed by rare feats in the sport world. Here's a look back at the major headlines and events.
January:
-Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, one of the world's most notorious drug kingpins, was recaptured Jan. 8 after escaping from a maximum security prison in Mexico.

-Music icon David Bowie died after an 18-month battle with cancer Jan. 10. He was 69.

-Famed British actor Alan Rickman died Jan. 14 from cancer. He was 69.

-The International Atomic Energy Agency announced Jan. 16 that Iran had adequately dismantled its nuclear weapons program following a deal brokered between the country and the United States. That ruling allowed the United Nations to lift sanctions on Iran.

-The World Health Organization announced Jan. 28 that the Zika virus was "spreading explosively" in the Americas.
February:
-North Korea, defying warnings from the United Nations and the West, launched a long-range rocket with a satellite into space Feb. 7.

-"To Kill A Mockingbird" author Harper Lee died in her sleep Feb. 19 at the age of 89.
March:
-President Barack Obama and his family visit Havana, Cuba, March 20. The visit was the first by a U.S. president in 88 years.

- Terrorists kill 35 people in three coordinated suicide bombings March 22 in the Brussels subway and airport. The attack followed attacks in Paris in 2015 and further laid bare security concerns in Europe.

-A suicide bomb in the Pakistan city of Lahore killed at least 75 people and injured hundreds more March 27.
April:
-The worst breach in ceasefire between the Armenian and Azerbaijani militaries since 1994 killed at least 193 people April 2.

-The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, coordinating work between newsrooms across the globe, published some 11.5 million confidential documents from Mossack Fonseca April 3, a Panamanian firm used to hide money overseas. The leaks, later known as the Panama Papers, had a range of implications and implicated well-known personalities, heads of state and more than 214,000 offshore companies.

-The musician Prince was found dead at his home April 21. He was 57.
May:
-The Leicester City football club won the Premier League May 2 in the United Kingdom after a dazzling season that defied all predictions.

-EgyptAir Flight 804 crashes May 19 on a trip from Paris to Cairo. Sixty-six people on board the plane died.
June:
-The world's longest rail tunnel in Switzerland was unveiled on June 1. The project took two decades to complete.

-Boxing icon Muhammad Ali died at the age of 74 June 3.

- The United Kingdom shocked the world when it voted June 23 to leave the European Union. Leading up to the vote polls and forecasts indicated that a Brexit rejection was almost a lock. It wasn't.

July:

-NASA's Juno spacecraft began orbiting Jupiter July 4. The craft would later send some of the first close-up images of the planet back to Earth.

-A terrorist drove a truck through a crowded promenade in Nice, France, killing 87 people including the driver July 14, the country's independence day.

- The first solar powered plane, the Solar Impulse 2, successfully completed a trip around the world July 26.

-Democrat Hillary Clinton became the first woman to be nominated to be president by a major U.S. presidential party July 26.

-The summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, opened from Aug. 5 through 21.

-Reports of creepy clowns trying to lure children into the woods in South Carolina surfaced Aug. 29. The phenomenon would later go national, with hundreds of sightings reported in the United States.

-The Brazilian Senate voted to impeach President Dilma Rousseff, the country's first female president, Aug. 31.
September:
-In a major setback for the company, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket exploded in Florida with a Facebook satellite on board Sept. 1. The explosion led to months of investigations and grounded the SpaceX fleet from launching for the rest of the year.

-The United States and China, two of the world's biggest polluters, ratified the Paris Climate Agreement Sept. 2. The support came ahead of the year's G-20 summit and gave the deal important backing to deal with the effects of climate change.

-NASA launched its first asteroid mission Sept. 8 to collect samples of the rocks in space.

-North Korea conducted what was reportedly its fifth and largest nuclear test Sept. 9.
October:
-A video of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump bragging about sexually assaulting women in 2006 surfaced Oct. 8 leading to a decline in his polling numbers.

-FBI Director James Comey notified Congress that his agency has found new emails related to Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton Oct. 28. Her polls droppoed after the emails were revealed. The FBI found them during a probe of Anthony Weiner, the estranged husband of one of Clinton's top aide's, Huma Abedin. Weiner was being investigated for sending explicit messages to an underage girl.
November:
-The Chicago Cubs, for the first time in 108 years and after a seemingly-prohibitive deficit, came back to beat the Cleveland Indians in Game 7 of the World Series Nov. 2.

-Singer/songwriter Leonard Cohen died Nov. 7 at the age of 82.

-Republican Donald Trump won the U.S. presidential election Nov. 8 in a surprise upset against Democrat Hillary Clinton. Trump had been all but written off by the news media and polling ahead of the election after a rough month in which a video surfaced of him bragging about sexual assault surfaced and questions swirled about his family charity.
December:
- American hero John Glenn, who became the first U.S. citizen to orbit Earth, died Dec. 8 at the age of 95.

-Andrei Karlov, the Russian ambassador to Turkey, was assassinated Dec.19. On that same day, a truck drove into a Christmas market in Berlin, Germany, killing at least a dozen and leaving many more injured.

- "Star Wars" actress Carrie Fisher died at the age of 60 Dec. 27.

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¨When I get home, Sarah and I have the worst fight of our marriage to date. I am gripped by the need to remove myself from the situation. If I stay, I know I will pick up my pills again, wash them down with too much vodka, and ruin all the hard work I did in that hotel room.¨ (chapter 21 page 186)

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The stories that defined 2015

Masked gunmen shouted "Allahu akbar!" as they stormed the offices of satircal magazine Charlie Hebdo during an editorial meeting on Jan. 7. They killed 10 journalists and two police officers. Eleven others were wounded. The magazine had printed cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad.

A massive manhunt that consumed France for the next three days ended during two hostage seiges that took place simultaneously, one in a kosher market and another in a warehouse near the Charles de Gaulle Airport. Four of the hostages were killed.

The two brothers who attacked the Charlie Hebdo offices died after an hours-long standoff with police at the warehouse. Another gunman who took multiple hostages at a kosher market in eastern Paris was also killed in a police raid. His accomplice, Hayat Boumeddiene, escaped and is still on the run today. An al-Qaeda offshoot branch in Yemen claimed responsibility for the attack.

In the wake of the attacks, "Je Suis Charlie" (I am Charlie) was the phrase heard round the world in support of the controversial magazine.

"To every woman who gave birth, to every taxpayer of this nation. It's our time to have wage equality once and for all in the United States of America."

Patricia Arquette got through her thank-yous, and then she got serious about equal pay for women - and not just in Hollywood. Arquette, who was awarded her first Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in Boyhood, used her stage time to make an impassioned speech about gender equality that was truly unforgettable.

But unlike other viral moments that often come out of awards season, this wasn't a just a fleeting trending topic. It was the start of a conversation about women in Hollywood - one that needed to be had for years - that truly transcended all other entertainment news and became the theme of the year.

We won the fight to protect the Internet

Live streaming isn't new, but it was reborn as a force on mobile in 2015 with the arrival of two apps: Meerkat and Periscope -- the latter owned by Twitter.

The simple, yellow-hued Meerkat debuted first, ironically using Twitter's platform to go viral, becoming a darling of SXSW. But Periscope quickly followed, stealing the lead position with a cleaner design and better experience.

Mobile-to-mobile streaming took citizen journalism to new level as "reporters" were able to respond to viewer comments in real time. Whichever app eventually wins out, it's clear the future of live streaming will have more in common with Snapchat than CNN.

Freddie Gray, a 25-year-old black man from Baltimore, was thrown into the back of a police van on the morning of April 12 during an arrest. Forty-five minutes later, he was fighting for his life in the hospital.

He died one week later.

Police said they arrested Gray "without force," but they didn't explain how Gray received the brutal injuries that led to his death, including a smashed voice box and a spine that was almost completely severed during that 45-minute "rough ride."

On the day of Gray's funeral, Baltimore erupted in violent protests that eventually devolved into riots as the community demanded police accountability. The city of Baltimore was placed under an emergency curfew for a week.

On the Friday after the funeral, while the city was still full of tension, State's Attorney for Baltimore Marilyn Mosby announced that six police officers would be tried in connection to his death. The first of those cases ended in a mistrial in December.

The tensions in Baltimore went national, reigniting the Black Lives Matter movement that Ferguson first sparked in 2014. They are still ongoing today.

Never underestimate the power of a crop top and a fierce red lip. Over a year after her last studio album dropped, Taylor Swift is still dominating the cultural conversation - thanks largely to her record-breaking 1989 Tour, which kicked off in Tokyo on May 5.

That first concert launched the Summer of Swift, which saw near-daily Taylor-led headlines - and, now that we're thinking about it, stretched into the fall and beyond.

Whether she was recruiting her model-perfect girl squad for the year's biggest music video, taking on Apple Music - and winning, taking on Nicki Minaj - and losing (before patching things up at the VMAs), inspiring Ryan Adams, or welcoming to the stage special guests that ran the gamut from Lorde to Joan Baez and Lisa Kudrow, Swift grabbed our attention and didn't let go.

No wonder she and beau Calvin Harris managed to beat out Bey and Jay on this year's list of highest-earning celebrity couples.

The U.S. Supreme Court struck down gay marriage bans as unconstitutional, making the right to same-sex marriage the law of the land in all 50 states.

In a 5-4 ruling, the justices said the 14th Amendment requires a state to license a marriage between two people of the same sex. States must also recognize a marriage between two people of the same sex when it is licensed and performed out of state.

Justice Anthony Kennedy, often the swing vote in close decisions, authored the majority opinion, and was joined by liberal justices Elena Kagan, Sonia Sotomayor, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer.

"No union is more profound than marriage, for it embodies the highest ideals of love, fidelity, devotion, sacrifice, and family," Kennedy wrote. "As some of the petitioners in these cases demonstrate, marriage embodies a love that may endure even past death. It would misunderstand these men and women to say they disrespect the idea of marriage. Their plea is that they do respect it, respect it so deeply that they seek to find its fulfillment for themselves. They ask for equal dignity in the eyes of the law. The Constitution grants them that right."

For the first time in history, a spacecraft saw the crags and cliffs of Pluto up close, revealing a new world to humans who have been waiting patiently for more than nine years on Earth.

NASA's New Horizons craft, which is the size of a baby grand piano, flew about 7,800 miles above Pluto's surface for its closest pass of the tiny planet; and as New Horizons finishes its more than 3-billion-mile journey to Pluto, it extends humanity's reach into the universe.

"It's the first time in 25 years that we've approached an unknown world of this size," said New Horizons scientist John Spencer.

Mission controllers received a status update from NASA's New Horizons probe as expected, approximately 11 hours after its close flyby with Pluto. Earlier that day, the crew saw the first high-resolution photo from Pluto, an emotional moment that scientists and engineers had waited more than nine years for.

"With this mission, we have visited every single planet in our solar system," NASA administrator Charles Bolden said.

Months later, we are still getting in new data from the flyby and learning more about our far-flung cousin.

Real estate mogul and businessman Donald Trump - who was better known for his eponymously branded hotels, his neckties and his long-running reality show - entered the race for the Republican nomination on June 16. Speaking in the atrium of Trump Tower, Trump pitched himself as the only candidate who could "take the brand of the United States and make it great again and pledged to build a "great wall" on the Mexican border to keep out rapists and other criminals that he argued were sneaking into the United States by the hundreds.

Until he entered the Republican field, Trump was best known politically for his skeptical insistence during the 2012 presidential race that President Obama was not born in the United States. Obama, who was born in Hawaii, ultimately released his birth certificate.

Trump's decision to enter the presidential race, a venture he had toyed with repeatedly over the years, was widely scoffed at by the political establishment who dismissed him as nothing but another flash candidate.

But six months into his political adventure, Trump has consistently led in the polls and draws thousands of supporters to rallies across the country where he declares that he will "make America great again." It's still far from the end of the Republican nominating process, but one thing is clear: Donald Trump isn't going anywhere.

The lifeless body of 3-year-old Aylan Kurdi lay on the wet sand on the morning of Sept. 2 as the sun rose over a resort town in Turkey. Waves lapped against his dark hair, his red T-shirt, blue jeans and small velcro sneakers soaked by sea water. His heavy arms extended along his sides as his belly and the side of his face rested in the surf.

This heartbreaking image of a child who drowned when the boat his family was traveling in sank off the coast of Turkey flashed across the screens for millions in the days to come. The photo triggered a global conversation on the Syrian refugee crisis that has gripped the Middle East and spilled over into Europe this year. Though thousands had faced the dangerous sea crossings to Europe before him, the photos of Aylan sparked an international call for action.

But even as those cries for change still echo across Europe, little has been done to aid those making the treacherous journey, other than ad hoc efforts by relief organizations. More than 920,000 migrants and refugees have arrived by sea in Europe since the beginning of 2015. Those who do arrive safely spend weeks on the road trying to make their way to western Europe seeking asylum.

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California wildfires

With the state starved for moisture during its worst drought on record, thousands of acres went up in flames across California, with a year-round fire season sapping firefighting resources.

iPhone 6S and 6S Plus

We got two new iPhones in one new color: pink.

Pizza Rat

Everyday life in New York City goes viral.

In September, Volkswagen Group admitted it had fitted its 2.0-liter diesel engines with software defeat devices that allowed its TDI models to cheat emissions testing. As a result, the 11 million cars affected worldwide produced as much as 40 times the legal limit of tailpipe pollutants, especially nitrous oxide.

But the following month, the scandal spread to the brand's larger 3.0-liter diesel engines -- found under the hood of VW, Audi and Porsche models -- after VW admitted those, too, had been fitted with defeat devices. Not long after, VW divulged that 800,000 additional gasoline and diesel models also demonstrated emissions irregularities.

It also had to pull 8.5 million cars off the road in Europe.

Since then, the Volkswagen Group has initiated a recall repair of its affected models in Europe. However, though it has submitted plans for a fix to the EPA, it has not yet made public its plan for vehicle emissions repairs in the U.S.

Late on a Friday evening, assailants struck Paris in a series of coordinated shootings that killed 130 people and left hundreds more injured in Europe's worst terrorist attacks in more than a decade. The targets included crowded restaurants and a packed concert hall where the band Eagles of Death Metal was playing.

French President François Hollande declared "war" against the Islamic State, or ISIS, the extremist group that claimed responsibility for the bloodletting. In the days that followed, French warplanes carried out a wave of airstrikes against ISIS targets in Syria, joining an international coalition fighting the radical militants who have spread across Syria and Iraq. The French parliament also voted for a three-month state of emergency that extends more powers to the police.

Seven of the ten assailants died during the attacks. Three other suspects were later killed. French officials identified a 27-year-old Belgian named Abdelhamid Abaaoud as the ringleader of the attacks. Abaaoud was later killed in a seven-hour siege at an apartment in the Saint-Denis suburb of Paris. His female cousin also died during the standoff. One suspect is still missing.

A fake Syrian passport was found near the body of one of the attackers. But there is still no evidence that any of the suspects were actually Syrian. In fact, the suspects identified so far were all French or Belgian and grew up and became radicalized within Europe.

Even so, the attacks spurred heated political debate in Europe and the United States about what to do about Syrian refugees who now number more than 4.3 million people.

In Paris, meanwhile, people appeared stunned by the second major terror attack on their city in less than a year.

Fourteen people lost their lives when two heavily armed shooters sprayed bullets into a holiday party in San Bernardino, California.

The two killers were a married couple: Syed Farook, who worked with the people he shot, and his wife, Tashfeen Malik. The couple were in their late 20s and had a 6-month-old daughter.

The couple shot between 65 and 75 rounds during a holiday party at the Inland Regional Center, and they fired 76 shots at police hours later. They were also carrying an additional 1,400 .223 rounds of ammunition and 200 9mm rounds, which were found on the suspects' bodies after they were killed in a police shootout.

As investigators began to unravel what happened, it became clear that the two had been "radicalized," and the FBI began treating the attack as terrorism. Malik did pledge allegiance to the Islamic State during the attack. In now-deleted Facebook posts, Malik expressed her admiration for ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi using an alias.Muslim couple had discussed jihad and martyrdom as early as 2013.

Since the attack, fear of terrorism in the United States hasn't been higher since 9/11.

UK begins airstrikes in Syria

British lawmakers voted to approve airstrikes against ISIS, joining the U.S., France and Russia.

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The stories that defined 2015 Masked gunmen shouted "Allahu akbar!" as they stormed the offices of satircal magazine Charlie Hebdo during an editorial meeting on Jan. 7. They killed 10 journalists and two police officers. Eleven others were wounded. The magazine had printed cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad.

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World Cup was over so her main focus was now towards her marriage. The one upsetting thing was how unfair the pay was for the men in the World Cup and the woman.
¨I’ll argue that FIFA should spend more money promoting women’s soccer ($73 million on our World Cup, compared to $2.2 billion for the men) and be more transparent with its finances; currently they offer no concrete figures about how much revenue we generate.¨
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Some athletes thank their enablers. Wambach thanks everyone who ever kicked her in the butt – coaches like Jerry Smith and April Heinrichs who told her to wake up and work on her conditioning

“I have to admit it’s true, she writes. If only I were half as talented as flopping around as I once was at playing soccer.” (chapter 17 page 140)

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Wambach was going through a bunch of rough patches but she didn't take it out the right way.
¨In his honor I book a trip to Las Vegas, withdrawing fifteen thousand dollars of the money Sarah and I received for our wedding. I hit table after table, playing poker, blackjack, craps—intending to lose every cent. In fact, I want to lose it, and I bet as irresponsibly as I can, hitting on seventeen, placing sucker bets on big six and big eight, making comically bad bluffs. To my frustration, I keep winning, racking up chips hour after hour until I find myself with thirty thousand dollars, double what I came with.¨  (chapter 17 page 143-144)

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Her 2015 playing hiatus, she reveals, was less about saving her body and more about saving her marriage. She reads Internet discussions dissecting her declining form and accusing her of flopping for calls.

Outside source: ¨A major aviation mystery in 2015 differed from the series of crashes the previous year in that the plane’s recording device led investigators to a suspect shortly after the deadly crash: the co-pilot. The recording from inside the cockpit of Germanwings Flight 9525 during the March 24 flight from Barcelona to Dusseldorf indicated that co-pilot Andreas Lubitz locked the lead pilot out of the cockpit during a break and proceeded to direct the plane toward the mountains of the French Alps, killing all 150 passengers and crew on board.¨

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From start to finish, many of this year's biggest news stories were centered around violence, terror threats or a general sense of fear.

The year began with a targeted terror strike in Paris and closed out with another planned attack in California, proving that threats around the globe remain an issue for all.

Domestically, mass shootings caused heartbreak and continuing the debate between those calling for stricter gun control and others arguing for the right to bear arms.

Here is a list of some of the biggest news stories of 2015.

Terror struck in Paris one week into the New Year when a group of men with extensive ties to terrorist organizations targeted the offices of a famed satirical newspaper. Two men shot their way into the offices of Charlie Hebdo while a third waited near the getaway car. The shooters forced their way into the publication's offices, killing a maintenance man and police bodyguard assigned to protect the editor after he received death threats. Once arriving at the office, they proceeded to kill nine others, mostly editorial staff gathered for their weekly meeting, injuring an additional 11. A faction of al Qaeda claimed responsibility.

The attacks continued in France for two more days, taking the lives of six others, including two police officers and four people held hostage at a kosher grocery store in Paris. The three perpetrators also died.

A major aviation mystery in 2015 differed from the series of crashes the previous year in that the plane's recording device led investigators to a suspect shortly after the deadly crash: the co-pilot. The recording from inside the cockpit of Germanwings Flight 9525 during the March 24 flight from Barcelona to Dusseldorf indicated that co-pilot Andreas Lubitz locked the lead pilot out of the cockpit during a break and proceeded to direct the plane toward the mountains of the French Alps, killing all 150 passengers and crew on board.

"The intention was to destroy the plane," Brice Robin, the public prosecutor of Marseille, said during the investigation.

3. Deaths by Police Officers

The acquittal of George Zimmerman in the shooting death of teenager Trayvon Martin led to the creation of #BlackLivesMatter in 2013, and the deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner among others by police officers in Missouri and New York, respectively, carried the outrage through 2014. It was the deaths of Walter Scott and Freddie Gray, both at the hands of police officers, that fueled the outcry in 2015. Scott was fatally shot by a police officer following a traffic stop in South Carolina on April 4. Footage of the incident was recorded by a bystander that appeared to show Scott, who was unarmed, running away from the officer, identified later as Michael Slager. Slager was arrested three days after Scott's death and charged with murder. His attorney says that Slager insists he is not guilty.

Just over a week later, in Baltimore, a man named Freddie Gray was picked up by police and put in a police transport vehicle without being properly strapped in. He suffered spinal injuries during the ride, which led to his death. Protests, some of them violent, erupted across Baltimore. After Gray's death was ruled a homicide on May 1, six police officers were charged in connection to his death. All have pleaded not guilty. The first officer's trial just concluded with a hung jury. A retrial is set for next June, after the other five officers are tried.

Chicago police also came under scrutiny for alleged misuse of force this year after footage of an October 2014 fatal shooting by police was released in November of this year following a court order. The video showed 17-year-old Laquan McDonald being hit 16 times. The officer involved in that shooting, Jason Van Dyke, was charged with his murder and has pleaded not guilty. Public criticism of the way authorities handled this case resulted in the firing of Chicago's police superintendent, and a public apology from Mayor Rahm Emanuel.

4. Amtrak Train Crash

A train derailment in Philadelphia killed eight and injured more than 200 Amtrak passengers in May after the Northeast Regional train sped around a curve and went off the track. The train's engineer. who survived, could not explain what caused the deadly crash. The National Transportation Safety Board led the investigation into the accident and determined that the train accelerated before the crash and had been traveling in excess of 100 mph, which was more than twice the speed limit for that area of the track.

5. Prison Escape in New York

One of the biggest stories of the summer seemed like something straight out of a Hollywood movie. It involved two prisoners, a sexual liaison with a prison worker who smuggled tools hidden in frozen meat and a midnight escape with a smiley-faced getaway note. David Sweat and Richard Matt, both convicted murderers, escaped from the maximum security Clinton Correctional Facility in upstate New York on June 6, crawling out of sewage pipes and digging through cell walls a la "The Shawshank Redemption."

A huge manhunt took place over much of northern New York for the next three weeks. Law enforcement officers shot and killed Matt on June 26. They found Sweat two days later; in November, he pleaded guilty to all charges related to his escape.

The prison seamstress, Joyce Mitchell, was arrested and admitted to having had a sexual relationship with Matt, along with providing the tools. She was sentenced to up to 7 years in prison. Corrections officer Gene Palmer was charged with assisting the pair of inmates to escape. He has pleaded not guilty and is awaiting trial.

6. Charleston Church Shooting

One of this year's deadliest mass shootings struck a particularly heartbreaking chord because of its location: inside a church. The shooting at Charleston's historic Emanuel AME Church in June caused national mourning and outrage, after a 21-year-old, reportedly with white supremacist beliefs, attended a Bible study session at the famed predominantly African-American church before allegedly opening fire on the group. The accused shooter, Dylann Roof, was apprehended the morning after the June 17 attack and is awaiting trial on 33 counts, including murder and firearms charges, as well as federal hate crime charges. The judge entered a not guilty plea on his behalf.

The shooting and Roof's purported racist beliefs prompted a debate over the state's continued use of the Confederate Battle Flag at South Carolina's Capitol. After heated debate, the state legislature voted to have the flag taken down. It will be exhibited at a nearby museum.

7. On-Air Shooting in Virginia

The gunman in another tragic shooting claimed it was the racism of the Charleston church shooting that prompted him to create a scene of carnage in the late summer. Vester Lee Flanagan, a disgruntled former news anchor, shot two of his former colleagues while they were on the air on location for a Roanoke, Virginia, TV station. The Aug. 26 shooting left reporter Alison Parker and cameraman Adam Ward dead. Flanagan later posted a video on social media of the shooting that he appeared to have filmed during the attack using a portable camera. He also sent a manifesto and called ABC News after the shooting. He shot himself to death during a car chase with police later that day.

8. Major Murder Trials

Four of the biggest trials of the year all resulted in guilty verdicts and one of those murderers now faces a death sentence. The first verdict came in February when Eddie Ray Routh was found guilty of killing "American Sniper" Chris Kyle and his friend Chad Littlefield. Though Kyle was well-known before the trial because of his bestselling book, the case gained even more national attention when his biopic came out just over a month before the trial started. Routh received a sentence of life without parole. He has filed a notice of appeal.

Former New England Patriots star Aaron Hernandez was found guilty in April and sentenced to life in prison without parole after killing Odin Lloyd, who was dating Hernandez' fiancee's sister. The case turned into a family drama as both Hernandez's fiancee, who was granted immunity for her testimony, and her sister took turns on the witness stand. His appeal is underway.

In another case, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the surviving brother of a pair of siblings, was found guilty in April of all 30 charges that he faced in connection to the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing and his ensuing flight from police, which included the killing of an MIT police officer. One month later, he was sentenced to death after the conclusion of the penalty phase of his trial. The first of many expected appeals is underway.

James Holmes, the shooter who opened fire inside a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado in 2012, was found guilty in July of killing 12 people in the rampage and injuring 70 others. While it took jurors only 12 hours to find him guilty, they were unable to reach a unanimous decision when it came to the penalty phase so he was spared the death penalty and sentenced in August to one life sentence for each life he took, plus 3,138 years for the attempted murders, without the possibility of parole. He has not appealed.

9. European Refugee Crisis

Tens of thousands of people fleeing war-torn Syria and other areas in the Middle East and Africa spent much of this summer making the laborious, and dangerous, trek through Europe toward countries including Germany and Sweden in hopes of finding asylum. The influx of refugee families prompted international disputes and policy shifts as countries such as Hungary started to close some of their borders and put up fences with razor wire to prevent people from entering. President Obama's plan to allow 10,000 Syrian refugees into the United States met with stiff resistance from some House Republicans who have called for stricter certifications that none of the immigrants poses a security risk.

10. Same-Sex Marriage Debate

The Supreme Court made a landmark decision in June, voting to allow same-sex couples to marry nationwide. The 5-4 decision was praised by many, including President Obama, who called it a "victory for America." But not everyone was pleased with the decision. A county clerk in Kentucky became a touchstone for the national debate after she claimed it was against her religious beliefs to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples. Kim Davis was jailed for nearly a week for defying a judge's order to issue any marriage licenses in Rowan County.

11. Pope Francis Visits the US

One of the biggest moments of national excitement came when Pope Francis made his inaugural visit to the United States, sweeping the country up in a serious case of Pope-mania. His visit started in Washington, D.C., after a trip to Cuba, and he went on to visit New York and Philadelphia before returning to the Vatican. Some of the highlights of the trip included a historic address to Congress, frequent rides in his Fiat and a particularly memorable moment shared with a baby girl dressed up like a pope.

12. Another Terror Attack in Paris

A series of coordinated terror attacks struck fear through the heart of the French capital on Friday Nov. 13. A combination of shooters and men wearing explosive vests targeted a football stadium, restaurants and a concert venue that evening, leaving 130 people dead.

French officials determined that the attackers had ties to ISIS, which has claimed responsibility. The alleged ringleader of the attacks was killed five days later when authorities raided his apartment in the northern Paris suburb of Saint-Denis. An international manhunt is still underway at this time for at least one other suspect.

This year has been rife with terror attacks and thwarted incidents in France, starting with the Charlie Hebdo attacks in January but followed by at least two other incidents that were stopped before the casualty count jumped. One occurred in April, when a man suspected of planning an "imminent" attack in and around Paris was taken into custody after allegedly randomly killing a woman but also shooting himself, prompting him to call for an ambulance. Then in August, three American friends on vacation - Anthony Sadler, Alek Skarlatos, and Spencer Stone - helped thwart a would-be attacker on a train heading to Paris from Amsterdam.

13. Mass shootings (Roseburg, Lafayette, Chattanooga, Planned Parenthood, San Bernardino)

From a college campus in Roseburg, Oregon, where 10 people were killed, or a military recruiting office in Chattanooga, Tennessee, where five people died, to a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs, Colorado, that left three dead, shootings were an all-too-familiar occurrence in this calendar year. The deadliest came on Dec. 2 in San Bernardino, California, where it's alleged that a married couple opened fire at the Inland Regional Center during a Department of Public Health conference and holiday luncheon.

The San Bernardino shooting marked at least the 57th mass shooting this year where three or more people were killed, according to an ABC News analysis.

Editor's Note: This story originally reported incorrectly on Dec. 28 that Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke had entered a not guilty plea when he had not. Van Dyke entered the not guilty plea on Dec. 29.

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Year in Review: 13 Biggest News Stories of 2015

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From start to finish, many of this year's biggest news stories were centered around violence, terror threats or a general sense of fear. The year began with a targeted terror strike in Paris and closed out with another planned attack in California, proving that threats around the globe remain an issue for all.

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The last few years of her career are difficult. Her body breaks down. After their wedding, Huffman decides to stay in Portland rather than play another season with Western New York, and the long-distance relationship takes a toll on Wambach’s play.

¨It was difficult for me to identify these inequities when I was in the thick of my career, just thrilled to be getting paid the realization that I am going to have to find another job—I think about them every time I put on my uniform and go to work.¨ (chapter 18 page 148)

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Wambach is not bragging about her own determination to survive. In fact, she often seems detached from the parts of herself that succeed. When she describes a wave of raw willpower that gets her through a fitness test at Florida after a summer of ignoring coach Becky Burleigh’s conditioning advice, she describes the feeling as something that simply appeared from nowhere, not some deep resolve that revealed good character. She credits herself as a world-class B.S. artist, watching with shock as the skill doesn’t translate into a TV analyst debut she describes as “epically horrible” but feeling relieved when she wins praise for public speaking.

¨She calls Florida’s coach, Becky Burleigh, advises her to hurry to seal the deal, and I’m off to visit Florida within the week.¨ (chapter 3 page 24-25)

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She pops pills to deal with physical and mental anguish, particularly after a shattered leg forces her to miss the 2008 Olympics.

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The 44th president of the United States, Barack Obama is the first Black American who has been elected to the Oval Office. He served from 2009 until 2017.

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She didn't want to be seen as that "little girl" so she embraces life as a hard-partying high school jock. Sheś often either drunk or hungover, she barely passes her classes and puts sarcasm and disinterest. She’s in danger of wasting her incredible talent with poor diet and exercise habits. Wambach blames no one but herself. When she's writing about infidelities/unfaithfulness by her high school boyfriend and one of her first serious girlfriends, she hardly seems angry. She blames herself for rare defeats on the field and for any failings, real and imagined, off it.

¨I am not, and never will be, that little girl¨ (Chapter 2 page 13)

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Her openness is a startling shift for someone who put up more barriers as her career went on.

¨One night, at a house party, I debate how to tell my teammates that I’m gay.¨(chapter 5 page 37) This is showing us she is willing to open up to the people she loves with out feeling judged.

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Typical sports memoirs glorify the virtues of self-expression and self-discovery through sports, Wambach’s memoir makes you think whether the whole attempt is worthwhile. She loves being good at soccer, collecting the praise and goal-bounty money from her parents. She doesn’t love soccer itself. Early in the book, Wambach makes that much clear:

My future teammate and friend Mia Hamm will one day offer this advice: “Somewhere behind the athlete you’ve become and the hours of practice and the coaches who have pushed you is a little girl who fell in love with the game and never looked back . . . play for her.” (chapter 2 page 12-13)

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WAMBACH, ABBY. FORWARD: a Memoir. HARPERCOLLINS, 2017.