Trending: Tuesday, April 1, 2014

Published 3:25 p.m. CDT (GMT - 6:00)

Yesterday's Google trends and today's Twitter (U.S.) trending now at bottom
(Read what happened on this day last year)

Today's headlines
What they're leading with
CNN: After 25 days, plenty of ocean trash and questions, but no sign of Flight 370
NBCNews: Deal or no deal, Pollard eligible for parole in 2015
NPR: White House says more than 7 million signed up for Obamacare
FoxNews: GM slammed at hearing for failing to address 57-cent defect linked to deaths
ABCNews: White House: 7 million signed up for Health Care
CBSNews: WH: Obamacare enrollment officially over 7 million, White House says
USAToday: Barra: 'Today's GM will do the right thing'

April Fools Day
NBCNews: Klingons and Wi-Fi pigeons invade internet for April Fools' Day

Oso, Washington landslide
CNN: Washington landslide death toll rises to 27

Earthquake news
NBCNews: Californians in the quake zone mostly uninsured

Afghanistan
CNN: For first month in years, no U.S. forces die in Afghanistan

Girl Scout cookies
NPR: Do Girl Scout cookies still make the world a better place?

Pop culture
CNN: New to Netflix in April

Ebola outbreak
CNN: U.S. sends team to fight African Ebola outbreak

Animal news
NBCNews: Why do zebras have stripes? Mystery solved, scientists say

Longevity news
CBSNews: Too much running tied to shorter lifespan, studies find

World-of-work news
BleacherReport: Angels hitting coach Don Baylor fractures femur catching opening day 1st pitch

Ethnicity issues
USAToday: Black female troops say grooming rule 'racially biased'

It's-not-fiction news
BleacherReport: Angels hitting coach Don Baylor fractures femur catching opening day 1st pitch

Obituaries in the news
USAToday: House music 'godfather' Frankie Knuckes dies at 59

Yesterday's Google trends with at least 2M searches
How I Met Your Mother
NPR: Oh, 'Mother:' An awful end to a long love story

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Google Maps Pokemon
TIME: Google HQ is now a Pokemon lab, and Google Maps has been overrun

Yesterday's Google trends with at least 500,000 but <1M searches
Obamacare
See above

Yesterday's Google trends with at least 200,000 but <500,000 searches
MLB: Official site

April Fools pranks
See above

Covered California
LATimes: California will log off some Obamacare applicants as website slows

Yesterday's Google trends with at least 100,000 but <200,000 searches
Frankie Knuckles
USAToday: House music 'godfather' Frankie Knuckles dies at 59

Texas Rangers
HuffPost: Texas Rangers apologize for trash surrounding memorial statue honoring fan's death

Cara Delevinge
DailyMail: One more kiss after romantic getaway

Red Sox
BostonGlobe: Red Sox feted at White House

Josh Elliott
CNN: How things got ugly between ABC and Josh Elliott

Amber Heard
NYDN: Johnny Depp confirms engagement to Amber Heard

Detroit Tigers
USAToday: Opening day comes again for Detroit Tigers fans

Cesar Chavez
FoxNewsLatino: Senate blocks resolution honoring farm worker rights leader Cesar Chavez

Trending now on Twitter (U.S.)
#7MillionAndCounting
#BandLifeEP6Today
#NotAnAprilFool
#MKTOReleaseDay
#Schweinsteiger
Fellani
Gotze
Ashley Young
Eduardo Nunez

Trending: Friday, November 1, 2013

Published 9:43 a.m. CDT (GMT - 5:00)

Yesterday's Google trends at bottom

Today's headlines
Obamacare Website
▪ NBCNews: Only 6 able to sign up on healthcare.gov's first day, documents say
▪ NBCNews: Open-source advocates to government: Let us help fix healthcare.gov

Food stamp cuts
▪ CNN: Our family will lose $44 in food stamps
▪ NBCNews: Families brace as billions in food stamp cuts set in

Bosnia
▪ CNN: Hundreds of bodies found in Bosnia mass grave

Speed record news
▪ CNN: Atlanta man shatters coast-to-coast 'Cannonball Run' speed record

Wine shortage news
▪ NBCNews: Bottoms up: There's enough wine to go around

Bus crash news
▪ NBCNews: School bus plunges off Kansas bridge -- driver rescued from water

Gun violence news
▪ NBCNews: High school student shot near Pembroke Park School: BSO

Pediatric news
▪ NBCNews: U.S. preemie births fall to 15-year low, still worst in developed world

Dog news
▪ NBCNews: How a dog wags its tail may say a lot -- to other dogs

Open-source news
▪ NBCNews: Open-source advocates to government: Let us help fix healthcare.gov

Health delivery news
▪ NBCNews: Midwives and nurses are as good as docs -- and sometimes better, WHO finds

Marketing faux pas news
▪ NBCNews: Halmark's 'ugly sweater' ornament stirs controversy over lyrics

Foster care news
▪ NBCNews: Foster mom retires after taking in 150 kids

History news
▪ NPR: Obama aides considered a Clinton-for-Biden switch, book says

Pop icon news
▪ NPR: Legal issues settled, Dylan's guitar may sell for $500,000

Outside-the-U.S. news
▪ NBCNews: Belgium considering new euthanasia law for kids

Obituaries in the news
▪ NPR: Book news: Medical thriller writer Michael Palmer dies at 71

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Red Sox
▪ (See Trendilla from yesterday, Friday, October 31, 2013)

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Halloween
▪ (See Trendilla from yesterday, Friday, October 31, 2013)

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Nexus 5
▪ cnet:With Nexus 5: Google finally gets flagship phone treatment

Happy Halloween
(See Trendilla from yesterday, Friday, October 31, 2013)

Last Minute Halloween costumes
▪ HuffPost

Tara Lynn
▪ See Trendilla from yesterday (Friday, October 31, 2013)

Halloween witch/Google Doodle
▪ Mashable: Google celebrates Halloween with a spooky interactive doodle

Google Glass
▪ See Trendilla from yesterday (Friday, October 31, 2013)

Trending: Thursday, October 31, 2013

Published 1:41 p.m. CDT (GMT - 5:00)

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Today's headlines
Halloween
▪ USAToday: Monstrous Halloween storm to pelt central U.S.

Obamacare Website
▪ CNN: Obamacare site outage resolved
▪ USAToday: Obama also tried health care website

Gym mat death
▪ CNN: Federal prosecutor will look into Kendrick Johnson case

Blocked Obama nominees
▪ CNN: Senate GOP blocks two Obama nominees, raising stakes in bitter fight

Air travel news
▪ CNN: FAA allowing most electronic device use throughout flights
▪ NBCNews: FAA to allow tabletsand e-readers during all phases of flight

Edward Snowden
▪ CNN: Snowden gets website job in Russia, lawyer says

Facebook news
▪ CNN: Don't freak out about Facebook's 'teen problem'

Drug tunnel news
▪ CNN: 'Highly sophisticated' drug tunnel found linking San Diego, Tijuana

James A. Kirk/Zumwalt
▪ CNN: Finally, Capt. Kirk has his cloaking device

Outside-the-U.S. news
▪ CNN: Sahara desert deaths: 92 migrants perish in Niger after vehicle breaks down

Trial bills
▪ CNN: Ex-trooper's murder trials drained millions from cash-strapped Indiana county

AIDS news
▪ NPR: AIDS scientists encouraged by antibodies that it monkey virus

Firearm news
▪ NPR: No more guns for neighborhood watch in Sanford, Fla.

Rare disease news
▪ ABCNews: NJ woman felled by 'devastating disease doctors have never heard of' (myalgic encephalomyelitis)

Dell/cat pee news
▪ ABCNews: Dell Latitude 6430u users complain laptop smells of cat urine

Food contamination/poisoning news
▪ CBSNews: FDA: 12% of imported spices contaminated with insect parts, salmonella, hair

Culture-in-the-U.S. news
▪ FoxNews: Pentagon training manual: white males have unfair advantages

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Red Sox
▪ CNN: Red Sox redefine what it means to be dynasty

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Halloween/Happy Halloween
▪ See 'Halloween' above

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Google glass
▪ NPR: 'I was very shocked,' say driver ticketed for wearing Google glass

Tara Lynn
▪ DailyMail: Big is beautiful: Plus size model Tara Lynn stars in new H&M campaign

Trending: Sunday, October 20, 2013

Published 12:45 p.m. CDT (GMT 5:00)

Yesterday's Google trends at bottom

Today's headlines
Obamacare/Affordable Care Act
▪ CNN: McCain: Obamacare website rollout a 'fiasco'
▪ NBCNews: Jack Lew: Real test for  Obamacare comes early next year
▪ NBCNews: Half-million Obamacare applications filed so far: Report
▪ USAToday: Big insurers avoid many state health exchanges

Syria
▪ NBCNews: Al Qaeda-linked extremists cause new Syria refugee crisis

Australian wildfires
▪ NBCNews: State of emergency declared as weather worsens Australia wildfires
▪ NPR: Wildfires in Australia destroy 200 homes, may get worse

Mystery blond girl in Greece/Possible child trafficking
▪ CNN: Mystery blond girl found in Greece prompts search for parents
▪ CBSNews: Blond, blue-eyed girl in Greek gypsy camp sparks child trafficking worries

International oops
▪ CNN: China: NASA mistakenly banned Chinese researchers from conference

BART deaths
▪ NBCNews: NTSB to investigate BART worker deaths

Auction item news
▪ CNN: Violin played as Titanic sank sells for $1.7 million

Traffic fatality news
▪ NBCNews: 5 killed after motorcycles collide with SUV in Pennsylvania

Navy scandal news
▪ FoxNews: Senior US Navy officer, NCIS agent arrested in bribery scheme

Gender stereotyping news
▪ NBCNews: Video games' sexual double standard may have real-world impact

Universe beginning news
▪ NBCNews: Scientists discover a new twist in light from the early universe

Tech support news
▪ USAToday: Tip: Be cautious when calling 'tech support'

Culture-in-the-U.S. news
▪ NPR: When playing video games means sitting on life's sidelines

Outside-the-U.S. news
▪ NBCNews: Gunman in clown suit kills former Mexico drug cartel leader who was member of notorious family

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Red Sox
▪ NBCNews: Red Sox emerge victorious in Game 6 of ALCS, will return to the World Series

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UFC
▪ CBSSports: UFC 166 results: Velasquez def. does Santos via fifth round TKO

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Texas A&M
▪ USAToday: Johnny Manziel leaves with injury, returns as Texas A&M falls to Auburn

Clemson
▪ USAToday: Overlooked no more, Florida State dominates Clemson

Oarfish
▪ CBSNews: Second giant 'sea serpent' oarfish found in California

Trending: Friday, October 18, 2013

Published 10:25 a.m. CDT (GMT - 5:00)

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Today's headlines
Asteroid news
▪ CNN: Big asteroid buzzes past Earth and will again in 19 years

Escaped killers
▪ NBCNews: Florida escapee had tried to forge release papers before

Colorado floods
▪ CNN: Colorado floods: A month later, mountain towns 'spooky' and deserted

Australia wildfires
▪ NBCNews: Australia wildfires: Resident dies defending home, thousands evacuated

Obamacare
▪ CNN: Congressional fight over Obamacare turns to website woes
▪ FoxNews: Insurers reportedly receiving faulty data from ObamaCare exchanges

Recall news
▪ CNN: 870k Toyotas recalled for spider-related problem

BART strike news
▪ NBCNews: BART workers strike after failed negotiations

Google news
▪ CBSNews: Stock surges: Google tops $1,000

iPhone news
▪ CNN: Is Apple's iPhone 5C a flop?

Social media news
▪ NBCNews: Where the kids are: Social networks parents may not know about

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Red Sox
▪ FoxNews: Red Sox one win from AL pennant after beating Tigers 4-3

Kim Kardashian

Windows 8.1
▪ USAToday: Windows 8.1 update arrives with fresh changes

Ed Lauter
▪ USAToday: Character actor Ed Lauter dies

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Seahawks
▪ ESPN: Russell Wilson, Marshawn Lynch lead Seahawks past Cardinals

Stenographer
▪ USAToday: House stenographer loses it during shutdown vote

Trending: Monday, October 14, 2013

Published 3:14 p.m. CDT (GMT - 5:00)

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Today's headlines
Colombus Day
▪ ABCNews: Columbus Day 2013: Hero, villain or both?

Government shutdown
▪ CNN: White House meeting with Congressional leaders postponed
▪ NBCNews: White House proposes meeting with Hill leaders as talks continue
▪ NPR: Shutdown hinders S.D. post-blizzard cleanup

Debt crisis
▪ NBCNews: China state media blasts U.S. shutdown, calls for 'de-Americanized' world

Tropical storms/cyclone
▪ NBCNews: Two tropical storms bear down on Mexico's Pacific coast
▪ NBCNews: Deadly cyclone Phailin destroys $4B worth of crops

Nobel Prize news
▪ NPR: Americans win economics Nobel for interpreting stock prices

EBT glitch news
▪ FoxNews: Black Friday comes early as computer glitches cause welfare benefits frenzy
▪ CBSNews: EBT benefit card glitch sparks Walmart shopping sprees in Louisiana

Aviation news
▪ ABCNews: Door falls off plane, lands on Calif. motel roof

Al Libi/al Qaeda
▪ CNN: Al Libi taken to New York week after capture
▪ NBCNews: Al Qaeda suspect, captured in Libya, is taken to New York to face charges

Fatalies on the job
▪ CNN: Delivery driver dies during construction of new San Francisco 49ers stadium

Health news
▪ CBSNews: BPA exposure may increase miscarriage risk in pregnant women

Organizational news
▪ NBCNews: Airlines test new ways to board planes

World-of-work news
▪ CBSNews: Poll: Half of older workers delay retirement plans

Survivalist news
▪ NBCNews: San Francisco man found after 18 days in Mendocino forest

Cruise ship news
▪ NBCNews: Boy, 6, drowns in pool aboard a Carnival Cruise

Culture-in-the-U.S. news
▪ USAToday: Report: Some Macy's open for Thanksgiving

Outside-the-U.S. news
▪ NPR: Death toll in India temple stampede rises

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Walking Dead
▪ USAToday: AMC's 'Walking Dead' struts to record ratings

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Red Sox
▪ NYTimes: Ortiz slams new life into Red Sox

Lauren Conrad
▪ NYDailyNews: Lauren Conrad engaged to boyfriend William Tell

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BART strike
▪ MercuryNews: BART strike avoided for Monday, but possible shutdown now looms for Tuesday

Redskins
▪ USAToday: Cowboys defense rebounds to top rival Redskins

Chicago Marathon
▪ ChicagoTribune: Chicago Marathon latest feat for last finisher

Helen Lasichanh
▪ NYDailyNews: Pharrell Williams marries Helen Lasichanh in Florida; Usher, Busta Rhymes perform mini concert at ceremony

Steelers
▪ USAToday: Steelers get first victory,  beat Jets

Trending: Tuesday, October 8, 2013

Published 1:05 p.m. CDT (GMT - 5:00)

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Today's headlines
Government shutdown
▪ CNN: Obama calls Boehner as stalemate continues over shutdown, default
▪ NBCNews: 'Just disgusting:' Outrage after shutdown delays payment for families of fallen
▪ FoxNews: Digging in: Obama calls Boehner to say won't negotiate, plans to make statement

Boy who snuck on plane
▪ CNN: Report: Boy who sneaked onto airline flight called a 'challenging child'
▪ NBCNews: 9-year-old stowaway has history of run-ins with law: Report

Nobel prize news
▪ CNN: 'God particle' theorists receive Nobel Prize in physics

Costa Concordia news
▪ CNN: Costa Concordia human remains believed to be found

Lampedusa boat sinking
▪ CNN: Lampedusa boat sinking: Survivors recall ordeal

North Korea
▪ CNN: North Korea puts troops on war footing and warns of 'horrible distaster'
▪ NBCNews: North Korea warns US of 'horrible disaster,' places military on alert
▪ NPR: North Korea has restarted nuclear reactor, South Korea says

Syria
▪ NPR: Weaspons expert sees 'constructive beginning' in Syria

Migrating bird news
▪ NBCNews: Extreme-flying swifts make 200 day non-stop journey over Sahara

Food poisoning news
▪ NBCNews: Salmonella tied to Foster Farms chicken  hospitalizes dozens, may be drug-resistant

Safety net news
▪ NBCNews: $2,800 per month for every adult? It could happen in Switzerland

Archaeology news
▪ NBCNews: Bronze Age sundial reveals lost civilization's tech savvy

Culture-in-the-U.S. news
▪ NBCNews: Small towns struggle as bank branches disappear
▪ NPR: Study: U.S. adults below average in literacy, basic math

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Raiders
▪ NYDailyNews: Matt Flynn released by Raiders

Scarlett Johansson
▪ USAToday: Scarlett Johansson is 'sexiest woman alive'

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Atlanta Falcons
▪ FoxSports: Smith throws 3 TD passes in Jets win

Red Sox
▪ BostonGlobe: Hopefully just a hiccup for Red Sox

Presidents Cup streaker
▪ LATimes: Presidents Cup streaker reveals to the world just what makes her tick

Amber Alert
▪ FoxNews: Amber Alert website brought back online after outcry