Trending: Saturday, March 29, 2014

Published 1:38 p.m. CST (GMT - 6:00)

Yesterday's Google trends and today's Twitter (U.S.) trending now at bottom
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Today's headlines
What they're leading with

▪ CNN: Malaysian official: Praying for plane survivors, but...

▪ NBCNews: Small but resilient Oso will rebuilt after mudslide, residents say
▪ NPR: Mudslides and landslides: Widely cited data is from 1985
▪ FoxNews: Common core emerges as potent election issue for fed-up parents
▪ ABCNews: Latest headline: NTSB forensics engineer describes process of recovering fight data
▪ CBSNews: Objects plucked from ocean checked for link to flight
▪ USAToday: Flurry of diplomacy raises hopes in Ukraine

Russia & Ukraine
▪ CNN: 'The hordes are coming:' Ukrainians fear Russian invasion in northeast
▪ NPR: Russia says it doesn't plan to invade Ukraine

BP Lake Michigan spill
▪ LATimes: BP more than doubles estimate of oil spill in Lake Michigan
▪ ChicagoTribune: BP raises estimate of Lake Michigan oil spill

LA earthquake
▪ CNN: 5.1-magnitude earthquake rattles Los Angeles area
▪ NBCNews: 5.1 earthquake shakes Los Angeles area, USGS says
▪ NPR: Magnitude-5.1 quake rumbles in Los Angeles
Measles
▪ CBSNews: Measles outbreak in Orange County, California worst in decades

Pope news
▪ NBCNews: Pope breaks protocol, goes to confession in public

NATO
▪ NPR: Norweigian Jens Stoltenberg will be NATO's next secretary-general

Aircraft news
▪ FoxNews: 'Mystery' aircraft reportedly spotted flying over Texas raises speculation

Spectator injuries
▪ BleacherReport: Fan in critical condition after falling from Upper Deck at Olympic stadium

Heart disease news
▪ NBCNews: Diet drinks linked with heart disease, death (association not a cause)

Diet soda news
▪ NBCNews: Diet drinks linked with heart disease, death (association not a cause)

Recall news
▪ ABCNews: 2 more recalls push GM total to 4.8M in a month

Windows XP
▪ USAToday: With Windows XP retiring, meet 4 affordable upgrades

Mars experiment
▪ NBCNews: Realistic Martian colony set  up on Hawaiian volcano (biodome, HI-SEAS)

Have-versus-have-not news
▪ CNN: In largely white male tech world, why capitalism needs an upgrade

'Big data' news
▪ FoxNews: American farmers confront 'big data' revolution

Competing perspectives (levels of analysis)
▪ NBCNews: Diabetic moviegoer: Theater called cops when I refused to throw out strawberries

China
▪ NPR: Made in China -- but was it made in a prison?

Kitchen trend news
▪ CBSNews: Top 5 kitchen trends of 2014

Cross-cultural perspective
NPR: 'Do it for Denmark' video urges Danes to go all the way

It's-not-fiction news
▪ NBCNews: Diabetic moviegoer: Theater called cops when I refused to throw out strawberries

Yesterday's Google trends with at least 1M searches
Earthquake today
▪ See above

Yesterday's Google trends with at least 200,000 but 1M searches
DeSean Jackson
▪ USAToday: DeSean Jackson denies having gang ties after being cut by Eagles

Noah: IMDb

Trending now on Twitter (U.S.)
▪ Crystal Palace
▪ #IAmNotALiberalBecause
▪ #DJaxToOakland
▪ #HarryPotterWeekend
▪ #freedomcrusade
▪ Migos Be Like
▪ #TribeOpener
▪ Randy Johnson
▪ Kevin Ware
▪ Li Na