TOP STORIES OF 2021

A timeline of the year, told through The Wall Street Journal's coverage. Dec. 15, 2021 10:04 am ET.

Despite the almost miraculous development of effective vaccines against COVID-19 in 2020, the virus continued to spread and mutate ...

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David Muir reports on some of the biggest news stories of 2021, including the race against COVID-19, climate change, the Capitol ...

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Thousands of students returned to Hawk Hill for the fall semester after a successful on-ground campus experience the year prior. Festivities ...

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From the end of a historic conflict to the beginning of another, one of the most controversial Olympic games since the 1979 Moscow Olympics, ...

The Biden administration's pledge to champion LGBTQ rights abroad was the dominant international story in 2021, but anti-LGBTQ crackdowns ...

From chaotic weather to worldwide social justice protests, this was a big year for news stories, and Storyful is home to all of the UGC that ...

Gallup begins the new year with a look at our biggest global discoveries in 2021 and what's ahead in 2022.

A composite image showing Queen Elizabeth II at Prince Philip's funeral, the Taliban, and. It's been a huge year of news, even without the COVID ...

"Sunday Morning" host Jane Pauley looks back on key events of a dramatic year. "CBS Sunday Morning" features stories on the arts, music, ...

Supporters of the former US President Donald Trump laid a siege on the US Capitol following his defeat to Joe Biden in the US Presidential ...

Eliza Strickland is a senior editor at IEEE Spectrum covering AI and biomedical engineering. Conceptual illustration showing part of an ...

2021 has been a bumper year with coronavirus dominating, as well as other shocking new stories. So to help you recap, here's our 2021 in ...

What a year it has been! We got a new president but not without a bloody insurrection in the chambers of Congress; we received vaccines to fight ...

Still, after 12 long news-packed months, we know that it can be tough to recall exactly which film brought people back to the theaters or which ...

Billionaires in space, an end-date for deforestation, facing up to racial bias in healthcare – we asked scientists to share the most ...

2021 brought us so many seismic, thought-provoking stories that we felt it was only right to reflect on yet another truly astonishing year in news.