Trending: Friday, December 27, 2013

Published 11:16 a.m. CDT (GMT - 6:00)

Today's headlines

Yesterday's Google trends and the moment's Twitter trends at bottom
2013  in review
▪ CNN: 50 best Android apps for 2013
▪ NBCNews: Lorde, George and ... Kimye? Most notable baby names of 2013
▪ USAToday: Passages 2013: Remembering those we lost

2014 exercise advice (New-use-of-word alert: 'fail as none' first heard in 2013 by the bird)
▪ NBCNews: Fitness fails: Workouts you need to stop doing in 2014

2014 auto industry preview
▪ NBCNews: Auto industry accelerating  into the new year

First-time new-word news (earworm)
▪ NBCNews: Love 'em or leave 'em? Five earworms we couldn't shake in 2013 (Daft Punk, 'Get Lucky;' Miley Cyrus 'We Can't Stop;' Lorde, 'Royals;' Robin Thicke, 'Blurred Lines;' Katy Perry, 'Roar')

Further-back retrospective
▪ CNN: From 2013 to 1963: Looking back  at a pivotal year (1963: Assassination of JFK, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.,'s 'I Have a Dream' speech, civil rights, Beatlemania)

Christmas 2013 news
▪ NBCNews: Ohio woman stabs sister during Christmas fight over apple fritters
▪ FoxNews: UPS, Amazon to reportedly offer refunds after Christmas delivery delays

Power outage news
▪ NBCNews: Mired in ice: Winter weather keeping power out for many

Unusual perspective news
▪ NBCNews: From online hacks to plastic fakes: The strange life of a stolen credit card

Stranded ship news
▪ CNN: Chinese ice breaker stalls but in sight of stranded ship
▪ NBCNews: Icebergs, blizzards and a creaking ship: Antarctic explorers' tense wait for the rescue
▪ FoxNews: Icebreakers racing to rescue ship trapped in ice near Antarctica

Politically-incorrect-headline news
▪ CNN: A white mayor for 'the chocolate city?'

Air travel news
▪ CNN: Delta glitch causes ultra-law fares

Economy news
▪ CNN: Many Americans feel economy isn't improving
▪ CBSNews: Extended unemployment benefits to end; 1.3M Americans to be affected
▪ USAToday: Cutoff in federal jobless aid looms Saturday

U.S. military base news
▪ CNN: U.S. base on Japan's Okinawa will be allowed to move after 17-year- deadlock
▪ NPR: Okinawa governor OKs plan to relocate U.S. base

Societal unrest news
▪ NBCNews: At least 148 arrested in crackdown on Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood

Terrorism news
▪ CNN: Lebanon's Mohamad Chatah -- U.S. friend, Hezbollah foe -- killed in blast
▪ NBCNews: Ex-ambassador to US killed in Lebanon bomb blast; four others slain
▪ NBCNews: American among three killed in Kabul suicide bomb attack

Fish attack news
▪ CNN: 70 people injured in Argentine fish attack
▪ NBCNews: 70 people bitten by piranha-like fish while bathing off Argentine beach

Bald eagle news
▪ NBCNews: Disease suspected in Utah die-off of bald eagles

Knock-out attack news
▪ NBCNews: 'Knockout' attack: Suspect charged with federal hate crimes

Knee surgery news
▪ CNN: You may not be better off after knee surgery

Priest scandal news
▪ CNN: Philadelphia priest to be released from prison after appeals court reversal

Gun violence news
▪ NBCNews: Cops: 4 dead, including suspect's wife and ex-mother-in-law, in Louisiana shootings
▪ ABCNews: Door-to-door shooting rampage leaves 4 dead

Cave-diving fatality news
▪ NBCNews: Father, son drown while attempting challenging cave dive in Florida

Bus-crash follow-up news
▪ NBCNews: Feds shut down 5 more 'unsafe' tour bus companies

Cross-cultural comparative news
▪ NBCNews: China's economy won't eclipse America's until 2028, study says

Gender-at-work news
▪ NPR: Marines: Most female recruits don't meet new pullup standard

Other planet news
▪ NBCNews: An alien planet may lurk around nearby failed stars

Brain science (optogenics) news/cool news
▪ NPR: Experimental tool uses light to tweak the living brain

Corrupt science news
▪ FoxNews: Professor reportedly admits faking AIDS vaccine to get grant money

Fracking news
▪ FoxNews: Fracktivists weep: Fracking saves water and prevents droughts, says study

Strange-way-to-die news
▪ NBCNews: Python strangles security guard at luxury hotel in Bali, Indonesia

Election 2016 news
▪ FoxNews: Fox News Poll: Clinton, Christie on top in 2016 preference test

Salvation Army kettle news
▪ FoxNews: Widow who dropped wedding ring into Salvation Army kettle identified

Hero news
▪ ABCNews: Man fistfights crocodile to save child

Out-of-the-ordinary sports news
▪ CNN: Jon Kitna: From high school math teacher to Dallas Cowboys quarterback
▪ FoxNews: 60-year-old woman (in China) gives birth to twin girls

Obituaries in the news
▪ NBCNews: Paul Blair: 1944-2013

Yesterday's Google trends with at least 100,00 searches
▪ Adore You Miley Cyrus

Delta Airlines
▪ See 'Air travel' above

Kwanzaa

Trending now on Twitter
▪ #JanoskiansLoveUs
▪ #Alfredo1000
▪ #boobproblemsnight
▪ #2013beliebermemories
▪ #DJJamesYammouniNYE
▪ Nnamdi Asomugha
▪ Utah State
▪ New Years
▪ Netflix

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