Trending: Tuesday, Decemer 24, 2013

Published 11:02 a.m. CDT (GMT - 6:00)

Trending now on Google and Twitter at bottom

Today's headlines
2013 in review
▪ FoxNews: Top 5 ObamaCare delays of 2013
▪ USAToday: Horovitz: 5 worst ads of 2013 more than stank
  -- 5. Kmart: 'Ship My Pants'
  -- 4. Hyundai: 'Pipejob'
  -- 3. Poo-Pourri: 'Girls Don't Poop'
  -- 2. Mountain Dew 'Line Up'
  -- 1. GoDaddy 'Perfect Match'

Christmas Eve spacewalk
▪ CBSNews: Spacewalk could finish space station cooling system fix
▪ USAToday: NASA astronauts make rare Christmas Eve spacewalk

Edward Snowden
▪ CNN: 5 takeaways from Edward Snowden's Washington Post interview
▪ USAToday: Snowden says his 'mission's already accomplished'

Gun violence
▪ NBCNews: One dead, one critically injured in shooting outside San Diego mall

In-the-line-of-fire fatalities
▪ NBCNews: Mississippi cop slain, partner wounded by bank robbery suspects

McDonalds news/irony news
▪ NBCNews: McDonald's employee site bashes fast food

Zoo visitor news
▪ NBCNews: Drunk woman enters elephant pen at Denver Zoo, gets electric shock: cops

Car mileage news
▪ NBCNews: Hyundai, Kia to pay millions in gas  mileage settlement

Historic persons news
▪ CNN: Alan Turing, British code-breaker castrated for homosexuality, receives pardon
▪ CNN: Lifting the veil of secrecy: Meet the female code-breakers of WWII
▪ NPR: Alan Turing, who cracked Nazi code, gets posthumous pardon

Nutrition in the news
▪ NBCNews: Is it safe for pregnant women to eat peanuts?

Obesity news
▪ USAToday: Obesity  levels off, but extreme cases tipping the scales

Social egg-freezing news
▪ NBCNews: Doctors' group sounds warning on freezing eggs to buy time on your biological clock

Technology news
▪ CNN: In thin air: Could touch display projected on mist replace physical screens

North Korea
▪ NPR: Money seen as a motive in execution of North Korea's No. 2
▪ FoxNews: North Korea's Kim Jong Un reportedly 'very drunk' when ordering executions

South Sudan
▪ NBCNews: South Sudan: 75 bodies found in mass graves following ethnic violence
▪ NPR: 150 Marines to be sent for possible mission in South Sudan

Egypt
▪ NBCNews: Egypt security base suicide bomb kills 12, wounds 134

al-Qaida apology news
▪ NPR: Al-Qaida group admits 'mistake and guilt' for botched raid

Online shopping news
▪ ABCNews: Online retailers tackle high rate of customer returns

Out-of-the-ordinary news
▪ CNN: Coyotes-Sabres game ends in craziest way possible
▪ USAToday: Disabled girl who died had nearly $1.2 million estate

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Santa tracker

49ers

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Christmas Eve

Twitter
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▪ Alan Turing
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▪ Donte Whitner
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Google trends from previous day (added 12/26/13), Monday, December 23, 2013At least 2M searches
▪ Santa Tracker

At least 500,000 but <2M searches
▪ Merry Christmas

At least 200,000 but <500,000searches
▪ ObamaCare
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Trending: Monday, December 23, 2013

Published 12:12 a.m. CDT (GMT - 6:00)

Trending now on Google and Twitter at bottom

Today's headlines
Weather
▪ CNN: Plummeting temps on tap for much of U.S.
▪ NBCNews: Christmas in the dark? Storm brings ice and outages to Midwest, Northeast
▪ NPR: Ice storm leaves tens of thousands in the dark

Obamacare deadlines
▪ CNN: Countdown to Obamacare deadlines
▪ NBCNews: Deadline looms for Obamacare
▪ FoxNews: ObamaCare deadline is a milestone and marker of uncertainty

Target credit card breach
▪ NPR: After Target's data breach, customer incentive disappoints

North Korea
▪ CNN: Did business disputes play a role in Kim Jong Un's uncle's execution?
▪ FoxNews: Dennis Rodman leaves North Korea without saying if he met Kim Jong Un

Aviation accident news
▪ NBCNews: Jet wing strikes building at Johannesburg airport

Bus crash news
▪ FoxNews: 13 hurt as tour bus crashes on California freeway

Does-this-really-happen-in-the-U.S. news
▪ NBCNews: Kicked out of high school for 'public lewdness' after reporting rape

Deviant survivalist news
▪ NBCNews: Survivalist sought in murder of wife and two young daughters

This-would-make-a-good-plot-device-news
▪ NBCNews: New Jersey Realtors used client's home for 'sexual escapades:' report
▪ FoxNews: Pennsylvania woman tried to frame hubby with child porn

Americans abroad news (cross-cultural faux pas)
▪ NBCNews: US consultant Shezanne Cassim sentenced to year in UAE jail for posting satirical video

Conflicting norm news
▪ NBCNews: UK retailer M&S faces boycott after Muslim worker refused to sell alcohol

Gas prices news
▪ NBCNews: Gas prices edge downwards after recent rise

Pop culture news
▪ NBCNews: After outrage, Cracker Barrel to sell 'Duck Dynasty' items again

Life-as-a-child news
▪ FoxNews: Feds see surge in children crossing US border amid concerns over immigration policy

Culture-in-the-U.S. news
▪ NPR: Utah scrambles to stop gay marriages, as couples line up

World-of-work news
▪ FoxNews: Drunk at work? No problem: Union contracts gone wild

Outside-the-U.S. news
▪ NBCNews: City hires 'cholita' traffic cops to ease Bolivian gridlock

Obituaries in the news
▪ NBCNews: Father of AK-47, Mikhail Kalashnikov, dead at 94

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Britney Spears

iOS 7 jailbreak
(Editorial comment: This is free consumer research that Apple should pay attention to in order to revamp its software)

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▪ Mikhail Kalashnikov
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▪ #AskPeyton
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▪ Happy Festivus
▪ Trent Cole
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Google trends from previous day (added 12/26/13), Sunday, December 22, 2013More than 200,000+ searches
▪ SNL
▪ Chicago Bears
▪ NFL Playoff picture
▪ Dallas Cowboys
▪ Peyton Manning▪ Patriots

At least 100,000 but <200,000▪ Sound of Music
▪ Steelers▪ Detroit Lions