Trending: Sunday, December 8, 2013

Published 11:59 a.m. CDT (GMT - 6:00)

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

Today's headlines
Weather news
▪ CNN: Winter storm aims at East Coast
▪ NBCNews: Winter storm heads east after walloping West
▪ NPR: Winter storm move into mid-Atlantic

Earthquake news
▪ NPR: A small 4.5 quake strikes during OU-OSU game

Economic recovery new
▪ CNN: Improving economy: Is it for real?

Air travel news
▪ CNN: Teen dies after medical emergency on flight
▪ ABCNews: Man trapped in empty dark plane cabin at Houston airport

Egypt
▪ NBCNews: Egypt's marriage crisis: Sons and daughters too broke to be married, waiting for adulthood

China
▪ NPR: Countering China, S. Korea expands its own air defense zone

Philippines typhoon
▪ NBCNews: One month on, progress in Philippine typhoon zone

Hoax news
▪ NBCNews: Some donations to waitress in anti-gay note case being refunded

Education news
▪ FoxNews: Teachers complain Common Core-linked lessons little more than scripts to read

American diet news
▪ NPR: Between pigs and anchovies: Where humans rank on the food chain

Cross-cultural news
▪ NBCNews: Female politicians taking over Latin America's land of machismo
▪ NBCNews: UN decries 'low, uneven' use of law protecting Afghan women

Outside-the-U.S. news
▪ NBCNews: Thai crisis deepens as main opposition party quits Parliament

Yesterday's Google trends with at least 200,000 searches
Michigan State football
▪ NBCNews: War Damn Sparty: Mich. St. upsets Buckeyes, sends Auburn to BCS title game

Yesterday's Google trends with at least 100,000 but <200,000 searches
Grammy nominations 2014
▪ CNN: Macklemore & Ryan Lewis get Grammy respect; Lorde 'skips a grade' to get 4 nominations

SEC Championship 2013
▪ ESPN: What we learned in the SEC: Week 15

Bowl projections
▪ USAToday: Bowl projections: Florida State-Auburn set for BCS title

Rebecca Black
▪ TIME: WATCH: It's 'Saturday.' Yes, Rebecca Black dared to release a follow-up single to 'Friday'

VGX
▪ Forbes: Spike's VGX awards evolve into a new kind of mess

Trending now on Twitter
▪ #BelieveTourMemories
▪ #LiesObamaToldUs
▪ #tobeonemusicvid
▪ #FFNow
▪ #AskFFL
▪ Christmas
▪ Rebecca Black
▪ The Tribez
▪ Tim Howard