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For over two decades, Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument has been a lightning rod. Now, it’s under review along with 26 other monuments and serves as example of what has people worked up.

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.

The Clinton campaign says Hillary and Bill Clinton paid their 2015 federal taxes at a rate of 34.2 percent. The couple’s overall tax rate was 43.2 percent, the campaign said.

The parents of two Americans killed in Benghazi are suing Hillary Clinton for wrongful death and other claims. Legal analysts said the case may not meet a high bar to proceed in court.

Whatever the judgment of polls in the days ahead, the Democratic Party’s gathering was an achievement in careful and effective political management.

Never known as a big-venue speaker, Hillary Clinton will face a make-or-break moment Thursday night with multiple pitfalls, varying objectives and a variety of critical audiences.

The once shy preteen is now a mother of two who has become one of her mother’s closest political advisers. On Thursday night, she’ll introduce Hillary Clinton as she accepts the Democratic nomination.

How weird has the 2016 election been? Let us count the ways…

“I think it’s … one of the big stories of this week, of this month, of this year,” Donald Trump said of the meeting. A Democratic strategist said it was “foolish to create such optics.”

Defending his 1994 crime bill to a protester, Clinton said: “You are defending the people who kill the lives you say matter.”