Trending: Thursday, August 15, 2013

Published 8:56 p.m. CDT (GMT - 5:00)

Yesterday's Google trends at bottom

Today's headlines
Egypt
▪ CNN: Egypt defends protest response amid condemnation

Stock Market
▪ CNN: Dow drops 225 points
▪ USAToday: Stocks: Dow closes down  225 as Wal-Mart warns

Nuclear reactor news
▪ CBSNews: Study: All 107 U.S. nuclear reactors vulnerable to terrorists

Obamacare
▪ FoxNews: ObamaCare pushing Americans into part-time work, critics say

Area 51
▪ CNN: Area 51 officially acknowledged, mapped in newly released documents

Aviation news
▪ CNN: Report: London Olympian parachutist Mark Sutton dies in Switzerland

Animal discovery news
▪ NBCNews: 'Cutest new animal' discovered: It's an olinguito!
▪ NBCNews: Meet the rodentlike creature that once dominated ancient Earth

Wildfire news
▪ NBCNews: 'Extreme fire behavior:' 34 wildfires rage across 11 states
▪ NPR: 2013 wildfire season proving to be more mild than wild

Space exploration news
▪ NBCNews: Planet-hunting Kepler probe can't be fixed, but alien search continues

Health news
▪ USAToday: About 18% of deaths of people in the USA, 40 to 85, may be due to being overweight or obese
▪ NBCNews: Heavy burden: Obesity may be even deadlier than thought
▪ NPR: Chronic insomnia? Hitting the treadmill could help... eventually
▪ NPR: The secret world of sleep

3-D printing
▪ NBCNews: 3-D printing booms, triggers rush for patents

Environmental news
▪ NBCNews: New clues to the plumbing under Greenland's ice sheets

Pet food alert news
▪ NBCNews: Iams, Eukanaba dry pet foods recalled over salmonella fears

Lottery news
▪ USAToday: Unclaimed $1M lottery ticket set to expire in N.Y.

Culture-in-the-U.S. news
▪ NBCNews: How economy and first class are growing even farther apart
▪ ABCNews: 'American Idol' double standard

Outside-the-U.S. news
▪ CNN: Car bomb rocks Hezbollah stronghold in Lebanon
▪ NBCNews: India sparkles with promise of overlooked diamond trove

Out-of-the-ordinary news
▪ NBCNews: Dig this: Badget unearths medieval burial grounds


Yesterday's Google trends with at least 200,000 searches
Tom Brady
▪ ESPN: Tom Brady returns to  practice

Humble Bumble
▪ Engadget: Humble Bundle's Origin package

Duck Dynasty
▪ USAToday: Why 'Duck Dynasty' rules reality TV

UPS plane crash
▪ CNN: UPS plane crash: Data recorders recovered

Yesterday's Google trends with at least 100,00 but <200,000 searches
Call of Duty Ghosts

New York Times

Egypt
▪ See Today's headlines above and also Trendilla from yesterday (Wednesday, August 14, 2013)

Backstreet Boys