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The 2016 election was divisive and nasty and full of insults and innuendo. But let's look at the brighter side — here are 10 lighter moments from 2016 that weren't so bad. Some are actually funny.

Bilal Askaryar fled Afghanistan with his parents and grandmother when he was five, as the country was descending into civil war. He reflects on his family's experience as refugees in this commentary.

$1.25 million. That’s the size of the bill that could have shuttered the only public hospital in rural Pemiscot County, Missouri in August 2013.

A new policy from American Airlines, the largest airline in the United States, put a limit on the weight of a wheelchair. Now, many power wheelchairs are too heavy to fly on smaller regional jets.

Last year, China drastically cut back its imports of plastic waste to recycle. Now the U.S. and other wealthy nations must figure out what to do with their discards.

The film is convinced Black people on screen and in real life are, by and large, contending with the same stereotypes and barriers that we were 20 years ago.

Hillary Clinton leaned into her identity when she ran for president. Vice President Kamala Harris is decidedly not.

Ohio State University officials on Monday declined comment on threatened legal action from the National Policy Institute, a white nationalist group denied…

After the shootings at Sandy Hook and in San Bernardino gun sales soared. Just ask Diane Donnett, owner of the Stonewall Gun Shop and Shooting Range in Broadview Heights. "Gun sales go up when somebody starts talking about taking away your right to own a firearm," she said. After those shootings, Donnett said President Obama's calls for new gun control legislation actually motivated people to buy more.

Research into Lake Erie's toxic algae shows no clear decrease in the pollutants feeding the persistent blooms during the past five years, according to an…