Trending: Wednesday, December 11, 2013

Published 5:18 p.m. CDT (GMT - 6:00)

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

Today's headlines
Person of the Year
▪ TIME: Pope Francis, the people's pope
▪ NBCNews: What a year for Pope Francis: From unknown to Time's Person of the Year

Obamacare
▪ NPR: Sebelius calls for review of HHS practices that led to debacle

Air travel news
▪ NBCNews: Most air travelers opposed to in-flight calls, new poll finds

Stock market news
▪ CNN: Dow falls 130 points

Google
▪ FoxNews: Google's cozy jet fuel deal with feds cost California taxpayers up to $5.3M, report finds

Meteor news
▪ CNN: Meteor explodes over Arizona; big meteor shower begins

Asiana crash follow-up
▪ CNN: NTSB probes fatal Asiana Flight 214 crash
▪ NBCNews: Asiana captain 'very concerned' about making visual landing

Sign language news
▪ CNN: Interpreter at Mandela memorial dubbed a 'fake,' group says
▪ NBCNews: 'Fake' sign language interpreter at Nelson Mandela memorial provokes anger
▪ FoxNews: Sign language interpreter who stood next to Obama at Mandela memorial called a 'fake'

Health news
▪ FoxNews: Popular stomach acid drugs may increase vitamin deficiency risk

Antibiotic news (vegetarian tag)
▪ CNN: FDA hopes to curb antibiotic use on farms
▪ NPR: Drug companies accept FDA plan to phase out some animal antibiotic news

Brain damage from football news
▪ NBCNews: Brain changes, memory problems seen with minor head bumps

Postal news
▪ NBCNews: Canada to phase out home postal delivery to stem losses

Hazing news
▪ NBCNews: New York College freshman dies in fraternity pledge 'ritual:' prosecutors

Breach-of-trust news
▪ NBCNews: Senator fires top aide amid child porn raid

Malaria news
▪ NPR: Global malaria deaths hit a new low

India
▪ NPR: India's Supreme Court restores ban on gay sex

Bird strike news
▪ FoxNews: Air Force: Bird strike caused wreck of $8 million jet

Selfish suicide news
▪ ABCNews: Prosecutors: Fatal NH crash was a suicide attempt

World-of-work news
▪ CBSNews: Why it's not so easy to move from a minimum-wage job

Yesterday's Google trends with at least 500,000 searches
Victoria's Secret Fashion Show 2013

Yesterday's Google trends with at least 200,000 but <500,000 searches
Google Drive
▪ CNET: Google Drive for iOS adds sorting, searching

Sons of Anarchy
▪ E!Online: Sons of Anarchy deadly season 6 finale brings in record ratings

Mack Brown
▪ LATimes: Texas coach Mack Brown denies he plans to resign

Godzilla
▪ UKTelegraph: Godzilla: First trailer for 2014 film released

Obama selfie
▪ CNN: Obama selfie: How did it unfold?

Yesterday's Google trends with at least 100,000 but <200,000 searches
Tila Tequila
▪ Newsday: Tila Tequila goes on Hitler sympathy rant on her blog

Candice Swanepoel (Victoria's Secret model)
▪ E!Online: Candice Swanepoel: Models need to be smart to be successful

Behati Prinsloo (Victoria's Secret model)
▪ DailyMail: She covers up assets as spectacular annual catwalk show airs

Trending now on Twitter
▪ #BethanyMotaGiveaway
▪ #APlusPlan
▪ #MATTYINFINITEEGIVEAWAY
▪ #wcw
▪ #MakeMerry
▪ Kirk Cousins
▪ Bartolo Colon
▪ Christmas
▪ RGIII