In 2016 WikiLeaks releases over 2000 emails from Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign chairman and former Counselor to the President John Podesta.
Donald Trump issues a statement calling the conversation "locker room banter" and writes, "I apologize if anyone was offended."
A video shows U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump having a lewd conversation about women in 2005.
2016 Moroccan general election Voters in Morocco go to the polls for a general election with the ruling Justice and Development Party winning the most seats.
Mylan Mylan pays US$465 million to settle its underpayment to U.S. government healthcare programs by misclassifying its epinephrine autoinjector emergency allergy treatment.
Russia–United States relations The Obama administration formally accuses the Russian government of cyber attacks against the U.S. Democratic Party in influencing presidential election.
Myanmar–United States relations The Obama administration lifts U.S. sanctions on Myanmar by terminating an emergency order that deemed the policies of the former military government a threat to U.S. national security.
Philippines–United States relations The Philippines Secretary of National Defense Delfin Lorenzana suspends participation in any joint patrols with the United States in the disputed South China Sea. Lorenzana will ask a detachment of 107 U.S. troops providing counterterrorism assistance on the southern island of Mindanao to leave as President Rodrigo Duterte requested.
2016 Nobel Peace Prize The Nobel Prize committee awards Colombian president Juan Manuel Santos the Nobel Peace Prize for his resolute efforts to bring the country's more than 50-year-long civil war to an end, a war that has cost the lives of at least 220 thousand Colombians and displaced close to six million people.
Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 Authorities confirm that a wing part found in Mauritius in May is part of the aircraft from Malaysian Airlines Flight 370.
2016 Atlantic hurricane season Hurricane Matthew hits the southeastern United States as the death toll in Haiti rises to at least 877.
£ The pound sterling sustains a flash crash, dropping from an exchange rate of $1.23 per pound to $1.13 in a few minutes of trading today, then gaining much of it back. Observers blame this development on algorithmic trading.
Insurgency in Balochistan Two bombs explode on a train near the town of Machh, Pakistan, killing at least six people with nineteen more injured.