Trending: Saturday, March 15, 2014

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Published 4:09 p.m. CDT (GMT - 6:00)

Yesterday's Google trends and today's Twitter (U.S.) trending  now at bottom

Today's headlines
What they're leading with

• CNN: Malaysian jet's disappearance a 'deliberate' action, PM says

• NBCNews: Investigators visit home of missing jet's co-pilot
• NPR: The passengers on Malaysia Airlines flight 370
• FoxNews: Missing Malaysia Airlines jetliner could have flown for more than 7 hours
• ABCNews: Latest headline: Dueling protests held in Moscow ahead of Crimea referendum
• CBSNews: Focus shifts to flight crew amid new plane revelations
• USAToday: Riding along on search for vanished jetliner

Fukushima radiation news
• FoxNews: Scientists expect traces of Fukushima radiation on West Coast soon (crowdsourcing)

Asteroid news
• USAToday: Asteroid (Regulus) to dim a bright star for some in Northeast

Weather news
• USAToday: Midwest, Mid-Atlantic brace for a white St. Patrick's Day

Autism news
• TIME: Growing evidence that autism is linked to pollution

Paralympics news
• NPR: U.S. beats Russia to win sled hockey at gold at Sochi Paralympics

Banking news
• NPR: FDIC sues 16 big banks, accusing them of fixing interest rates

Pop culture
• CNN: Obama wants people to quit bashing his jeans

Drone news
• CBSNews: Could commercial drones be the future of flight?

Who profits from war news
• TIME: Here are the 5 companies making a killing off wars around the world

Rape in India followup
• NPR: Indian court stays death penalty for two in rape case

Have-versus-have-not news
• NPR: For the poor, warmth in the winter comes at a steep price

Brain science news
• NPR: Beward of the quick fix mirage (brain fitness)

Cool stuff news
• CBSNews: 7 beautiful rooftop gardens

Obituaries in the news
• NPR: Man (Glenn McDuffie) widely known as the 'kissing sailor' in 1945 V-J Day photo dies

It's-not-fiction news
• USAToday: Funeral held for dad, mom, daughter who died days apart

Google trends with at least 100,000 searches
Veronica Mars
• EWeekly: 'Veronica Mars' love triangle resolved?

Chris Brown
• CNN: Chris Brown booted out of rehab, taken into custody by LA sheriff's deputies

Trending now on Twitter (U.S.)
• #WhiteManMarchProtestSigns
• #askbradkanything
• #StrongForMace
• Jermaine Defoe
• Brooklyn Nights
• #SEAvTOR
• Kenny Gaines
• Michigan State
• MLS

Trending: Friday, March 14, 2014

Published 3:40 p.m. CDT (GMT - 6:00)

Yesterday's Google trends and today's Twitter (U.S.) trending now at bottom

Today's headlines
What they're leading with

• CNN: Missing Malaysian plane: Could it have landed?

• NBCNews: Kerry: We won't recognize Crimea vote
• NPR: No breakthrough in talks about Ukraine
• FoxNews: Kerry, Lavrov summit fails to yield deal ahead of 'illegal' Crimea vote
• ABCNews: Latest headline: What's at stake in the Crimea referendum and how will U.S. react?
• CBSNews: More sinister theories, still no answers in search for missing plane
• USAToday: Airliners have several ways to signal location, status

Brain science news
• Reuters: Scientists find gene linking brain's grey matter to intelligence

Drone news
• CBSNews: The future of drones: Technology vs. privacy

Recall news
• CNN: Safety group claims 303 deaths linked to recalled GM cars

Getting-out-of-debt/delayed gratification news
• NBCNews: The long, grueling road: Getting out of debt

Hacking news
• NBCNews: Target warns data breach could be worse than reported so far

Yesterday's Google trends with at least 500,000 searches
Pi
PiDay.Org: One million digits of Pi

SXSW
• NBCNews: SXSW victims: 'Why did this happen?'

Yesterday's Google trends with at least 200,000 but <500,000 searches
Andaman Islands
• CNN: Five things to know about India's Andaman Islands

Yesterday's Google trends with at least 100,000 but <200,000 searches
ACC tournament
• NYTimes: A.C.C. to hold tournament at Barclays in 2017 and 2018

Trending now on Twitter (U.S.)
• #JeromeTwitterGame
• #YESPimpMySummerBallBournemouth
• Happy Pi Day
• #AskAugust
• Della Valle
• #WeNeedAustinandAllyS4
• #Emblem3PHX
• Aaron Craft
• Ohio State

Trending: Monday, August 12, 2013

Published 7:01 p.m. CDT (GMT - 5:00)

Yesterday's Google trends at bottom

Today's headlines
Whitey Bulger
▪ CNN: Mobster James 'Whitey' Bulger guilty of racketeering, involvement in murders
▪ NPR: James 'Whitey' Bulger guilty of murder, racketeering
▪ FoxNews: Jury finds 'Whitey' Bulger guilty of racketeering, conspiracy

Hyperloop (transportation) news
▪ CNN: Hyperloop: San Francisco  to L.A. in 30 minutes
▪ NPR: After much hype, Elon Musk unveils his high-speed 'hyperloop'

Sinkhole news
▪ CNN: Florida sinkhole swallows parts of resort near Disney world
▪ NBCNews: Building collapses as 40-foot sinkhole opens up in Florida resort near Disney World

Smartphone news
▪ CNN: Report: Apple will reveal new iPhone next month
▪ FoxNews: What will become of Blackberry?

Brain science news
▪ NPR: Brains of dying rats yield clues about near-death experiences
▪ CBSNews: Near-death experiences aren't figment of imagination, study shows

Dolphin news
▪ NBCNews: Dolphins know more, and remember more, than we thought

Cloning news
▪ NBCNews: Judge orders quarter horse association to register clones

Election 2016
▪ CNN: Biden headed to Iowa for high-profile steak fry

Paula Deen
▪ NBCNews: Judge in Paula Deen suit throws out racial discrimination claims

Physics news
▪ NPR: Particle physicists want a new collider to study the Higgs

World-of-work news
▪ CNN: AOL boss fires employee in conference call for taking photo

Culture-in-the-U.S. news
▪ CNN: Judge: Baby can't be named 'Messiah'
▪ NBCNews: Downsizing in retirement turns less into more
▪ FoxNews: California Gov. Brown signs transgender-student bill
▪ USAToday: Fair bans clown who wore Obama mask

Outside-the-U.S. news
▪ NPR: Too much, too fast: China sees backlash from massive growth

Out-of-the-ordinary news
▪ CNN: 'Love Boat's last voyage ends in tragedy
▪ CNN: BlackBerry explores a sale of the company

Yesterday's Google trends with at least 1M searches
Breaking Bad
▪ DailyBeast: 'Breaking Bad' creator Vince Gilligan spills on the midseason premiere's big plot twist

Yesterday's Google trends with at least 500,000 but <1M searches
Jason Dufner
▪ Yahoo: Jason Dufner claims PGA Championship... and some Oak Hill acorns


Yesterday's Google trends with at least 100,000 but <500,000 searches
Erwin Schrödinger
▪ TheGuardian: Physicist Erwin Schrödinger's Google doodle marks quantum mechanics work

Ashton Kutcher
▪ MercuryNews: Ashton Kutcher, Steve Jobs and the making of 'Jobs'

Low Winter Sun
▪ IMDb