Trending: Saturday, December 14, 2013

Published 10:25 a.m. CDT (GMT - 6:00)

Yesterday's Google trends and today's U.S. Twitter trends at bottom

Today's headlines
Sandy Hook/Newtown one-year anniversary
▪ CNN: Newtown a year later: Nation reflects on legacy of its 2nd-deadliest mass shooting
▪ NBCNews: Crisis counseling after a disaster: Does anything really help?
▪ NBCNews: Newtown charities raise $27 million in wake of tragedy
▪ NPR: As centennial, Colo. picks up the pieces, Sandy Hook marks anniversary

Arapahoe High School shootings/Violence against teachers
▪ CNN: Why? Sheriff wants to know reason for Colorado school shooting
▪ NBCNews: Gunman kills self at Colorado high school; second student critically wounded (targeted teacher praised for leaving school)
▪ NPR: As centennial, Colo. picks up the pieces, Sandy Hook marks anniversary
▪ FoxNews: Gunman (Karl Halverson Pierson) at Colorado school targeted teacher over debate team demotion, report says

Weather news
▪ NBCNews: Biggest winter storm of season takes aim at Northeast, threatening foot of snow

Space launch news
▪ CNN: Iran claims 2nd launch of monkey into space and back
▪ CNN: Chinese unmanned spacecraft (Chang'e-3) lands on moon with Jade Rabbit (Yutu) rover
▪ NBCNews: China's first moon rover makes lunar landing
▪ NBCNews: SpaceX wins NASA's nod to take over historic Launch Pad 39A
▪ NPR: State TV: Chinese spacecraft makes soft landing on the moon
Thwarted terrorism news
▪ NPR: Officials say man planned suicide bombing at Kansas airport

Nelson Mandela (not what you think)
▪ NBCNews: Mandela's freedom fighter days not part of 'saintly' image

Greenhouse news
▪ NBCNews: Newly detected greenhouse gas is 7,000 times more potent than CO2

Trial cost news
▪ NBCNews: Serial killer Joseph Naso ordered to reimburse Marin County for expenses

Culture-in-the-U.S. news
▪ CNN: What's youtube's top viral videos of 2013?
▪ FoxNews: Netflix generation? Americans love binge-watching TV
▪ USAToday: Consumers have had enough, '(customer) rage survey' says

Outside-the-U.S. news
▪ NBCNews: Jakarta threatens toilet-scrubbing as punishment for jaywalking and littering
▪ NBCNews: 20,000 porn-watchers' addresses mistakenly released in German court: lawyer

Yesterday's Google trends with at least 1M searches
Mega Millions
▪ CNN: No winners in $425 million Mega Millions jackpot, lottery officials say

Yesterday's Google trends with at least 500,000 but <1M searches
Arapahoe High School
▪ See "Arapahoe' above

Yesterday's Google trends with at least 200,000 but <500,000 searches
Khloe Kardashian
▪ FoxNews: It's officially over; Khloe Kardashian files for divorce

Yesterday's Google trends with at least 100,000 but <200,000 searches
Friday the 13th
▪ LATimes: 13 things you should know about Friday the 13th

Trending now on Twitter
▪ #Z100JingleBall
▪ #QueenBey
▪ #ArapahoeHigh
▪ Arapahoe High School
▪ #DigiFestLATomorrow
▪ #StressLevel0
▪ Friday the 13th
▪ Drunk In Love
▪ Terrance West
▪ Christmas