After poring over close to 500,000 photographs from all over the world, the New York Times narrow it down to roughly 150 standouts.
This year brought us the first year of Donald Trump's presidency, a historic solar eclipse and major weather events. A look back at the year's biggest moments
In the annual poll of annoying words conducted by Marist, "fake news" snagged the #2 spot.
The Bay Area is represented in a big way in Time's Person of the Year issue. A former Uber engineer and a San Francisco lobbyist are among the women on the cover, recognized for breaking the culture of silence surrounding sexual harassment.
Adama Iwu is a lobbyist for Visa and she's started the campaign to expose sexual harassment in Sacramento.
World leaders and social activists made the shortlist for TIME's Person of the Year. The title was awarded to The Silence Breakers that the magazine deems to have been the most influential in 2017.