Trending: Friday, August 2, 2013

Published 5:24 p.m. CDT (GMT - 5:00)

Yesterday's Google trends at bottom

Today's headlines
Global terror alert
▪ CNN: U.S. issues global travel alert, to close embassies due to al Qaeda threat
▪ NPR: State department issues worldwide travel alert
▪ FoxNews: US issues global travel alert over Al Qaeda threat, prepares to close embassies

Steamboat geyser eruption
▪ NBCNews: Yellowstone's Steamboat geyser erupts for first time in more than 8 years

Contaminated salad
▪ CNN: Salad blend from Mexico blamed for cyclospora outbreak in Nebraska, Iowa
▪ NBCNews: FDA names Taylor Farms as source in parasite outbreak

Pop culture
▪ CNN: Doctor Who? Next time-travelling star of British show to be revealed Sunday

Psychology news
▪ NPR: Could hotter temperatures from climate change boost violence?

Aviation news
▪ FoxNews: Pilot rescued at sea after ejecting from F-16 jet involved in mid-air collision

Higher education/diversity news
▪ NPR: Research says: Actually where you go to college matters

Balcony plunge death
▪ CNN: Woman on first date plunges to her death on 17th floor balcony

Health news
▪ CNN: FDA sets 'gluten-free' labeling standards
▪ NBCNews: Acne in elementary school? Pimples are starting younger, dermatologists say
▪ ABCNews: (Annoying video ad first) New acetominophen warning: Why now?

Killer bee news
▪ CBSNews: (Annoying video ad first) Swarm of bees attack man, kill dog in Houston

West, Texas
▪ NBCNews: Obama signs disaster declaration months after explosion devastates West, Texas

Cable provider news
▪ NBCNews: Time Warner Cable blacks out CBS stations
▪ USAToday: Time Warner drops CBS in New York, L.A., Dallas

Space news
▪ NBCNews: Curiosity rover celebrates a year on Mars... and surprising successes

Prison news
▪ NBCNews: Supreme Court orders California to free thousands from crowded prisons

Green paint Washington, D.C. vandalism
▪ NBCNews: Suspect charged in cathedral vandalism released to halfway house

Culture-in-the-U.S. news
▪ NBCNews: A record 21.6 million millenials live with  parents

Yesterday's Google trends with at least 500,000 searches
Powerball
▪ KansasCityStar: Powerball jackpot reaches $300M for Saturday

Yesterday's Google trends with at least 100,000 but <500,000 searches
Ariel Castro
▪ NBCNews: Castro's statement: Classic signs of a narcissistic sociopath, experts say
▪ See also: Trendilla from yesterday (Thursday, August 1, 2013)

Moto X
▪ CNET: Moto X: The first true anti-phone

H&M
▪ WashingtonPost: H&M launches e-commerce site in U.S., but is that good news?

Snowden
▪ USAToday: Snowden 'exhausted,' misses American girlfriend

Alex Rodriguez
▪ ESPN: Sources: A-Rodk, MLB far apart

Jennifer Rosoff
▪ See 'Balcony plunge death' above