This year as I watched the news, I felt like there was just so much happening in the world that it was impossible keep up with it all. I remember hearing a news commentator say that she felt like we had crammed a decade's worth of news into one year. It's just too hard to pick Top 10 stories anymore. These Top 10 stories and timeline were taken directly from http://www.pittsburghlive.com. I did not include all of the text because it was too much to post here. The photos are all from separate sources.
Top 10 National Stories
1. The Partisan fight on the budget
5. Lawmakers' compromising positions
6. Casey Anthony acquitted
9. GOP field takes shape
Timeline:
Jan. 27: U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano announces color-coded terror alerts will be phased out by late April.
Feb. 16: Bookstore chain Borders declares bankruptcy; its last stores will close in September.
March 7: President Obama approves the resumption of military trials at the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, ending a two-year ban.
April 1: In politically gridlocked Washington, an 11th-hour agreement on the federal budget, including tens of billions of dollars in spending cuts, averts a government shutdown.
April 15: NASA releases a trove of data from its skymapping mission, allowing anyone with Internet access to peruse millions of galaxies, stars, asteroids.
April 27: White House releases Obama`s Hawaiian "long form" birth certificate amid claims of so-called "birthers" that he was not a "natural-born citizen," as the Constitution requires.
May 19: Katie Couric, first solo anchorwoman of a network evening newscast, leaves "CBS Evening News" after five years.
May 21: Widely reported end-times prophecy by 89-year-old Christian broadcast group operator Harold Camping fails to be fulfilled.
May 25: After 25-year run, "The Oprah Winfrey Show" airs final broadcast.
June 10: Outgoing U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates warns that the future of the NATO military alliance is at risk because of European penny-pinching and a distaste for front-line combat.
June 14: Obama makes four-hour visit to Puerto Rico, the first president since John F. Kennedy to make an official visit to the U.S. territory.
June 22: James "Whitey" Bulger, the longtime fugitive Boston crime boss and fixture on the FBI`s 10 Most Wanted list, is arrested in Santa Monica, Calif.
June 24: New York becomes the largest state to legalize same-sex marriage.
Aug. 1: A last-minute deal in Congress ends a stalemate over raising the federal debt ceiling that had threatened to lead to government default. Deal included provision for a "supercommittee" to agree on deep spending cuts by a November deadline.
Aug. 5: Citing a "gulf between the political parties," credit rating agency Standard & Poor`s downgrades U.S. debt for the first time since assigning the nation`s AAA rating in 1917.
Aug. 5: Federal jury convicts three New Orleans police officers, a former officer and a retired sergeant of civil rights violations in the 2005 shooting deaths of a teenager and a mentally disabled man crossing a bridge following Hurricane Katrina.
Aug. 13: Wind gust topples Indiana State Fair stage before concert, killing seven.
Aug. 23: A magnitude 5.8 earthquake in Virginia, the strongest on the East Coast since 1944, causes cracks in the Washington Monument and damages the National Cathedral.
Sept. 4: Actor Jerry Lewis` run ends on the Muscular Dystrophy Association`s 46th annual Labor Day weekend telethon that he hosted the previous 45 years.
Sept. 11: As the U.S. and the world mark the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, a memorial plaza at Ground Zero opens.
Sept. 16: World War II-era fighter plane plunges into spectators during air races in Reno, Nev., killing 74-year-old Florida stunt pilot Jimmy Leeward and 10 others.
Sept. 20: Repeal of U.S. military`s 18-year-old "don`t ask, don`t tell" compromise takes effect, allowing gay and lesbian service members to serve openly.
Oct. 2: A "white Halloween" storm with record-setting snowfalls brings down trees across the northeastern U.S., knocking out power to millions; 39 deaths blamed on storm.
Nov. 7: Los Angeles jury convicts Michael Jackson`s doctor, Conrad Murray, of involuntary manslaughter for supplying an anesthetic implicated in the entertainer`s 2009 death.
Nov. 21: In Washington, Congress` bipartisan deficit reduction "supercommittee," appointed to find $1.2 trillion in cuts over a decade, fails, triggering automatic cuts agreed to under the summer`s debt ceiling deal. But they don`t take effect until 2013.
Dec. 2: Labor Department announces unemployment rate fell to 8.6 percent in November, lowest since March 2009.
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