Published 10:54 a.m. CDT (GMT - 6:00)
Trending now on Google and Twitter at bottom
Today's headlines
Weather
▪ NCNN: 3 dead as unusual weather mix sweeps nation, threatens holiday travelers
▪ NBCNews: Huge and sloppy strorm system snarls holiday travel
▪ NPR: Huge storm may mean snow and ice for holiday travelers
▪ ABCNews: 95K without power in Northeast due to ice storm
▪ USAToday: 'Big, crazy storm of constrasts' rips South, Northeast
Iceland elf news
▪ ABCNews: Iceland's hidden elves delay road projects
Target credit card breach
▪ NPR: JP Morgan Chase places limits on cards used at Target stores
Immigration reform
▪ FoxNews: Obama, top Dems now appear to be pushing for comprehensive immigration reform
School shooting news
▪ CNN: Colorado high school shooting victim dies at hospital
▪ NBCNews: Colorado high school shooting victim Claire Davis dies
Carjacking news
▪ NBCNews: Police search for carjacker involved in crash that killed 11-year-old boy
NSA/Spying news
▪ NPR: New NSA documents make case for keeping surveillance programs secret
Spacewalk news
▪ FoxNews: Space suit issues leads to delay of second spacewalk
Building-collapse follow-up news
▪ ABCNews: Bangladesh factory owners charged in deadly fire
Lung transplant/Sarah Murnaghan follow-up
▪ NBCNews: After lung transplant that changed the rules, Sarah is doing fine
Counterfeit/knockoff news
▪ CBSNews: Counterfeit wine: A vintage crime
Turkey
▪ NBCNews: Dozens of police officers ousted as corruption scandal roils Turkey's elite
Thailand
▪ NBCNews: Protesters swarm in Thai capital to demand PM resign
China-buys-the-world news
▪ NBCNews: Hotel magnate and wine entrepreneur feared dead in crash after chateau sale
Iraq
▪ NBCNews: Militants kill at least 18 officers and soldiers at attacks grow in Iraq
Russia
▪ NPR: Freed Russian oil tycoon says he'll work for release of prisoners
Spain
▪ ABCNews: Recession-hit Spain holds huge Christmas lottery
Tablet app news (technology)
▪ USAToday: 10 great apps for a new tablet (Facebook, Flipboard, Skype, Dropbox, Netflix, Pandora, Snapseed, Candy Crush Saga, Weather Channel)
Trending now on Google
200,000+ searches
Gabrielle Union
▪ FoxNews: Gabrielle Union and Dwayne Wade are engaged
100,000+ searches
Justin Timberlake
▪ USMagazine: Justin Timberlake, Jimmy Fallon reunite on SNL
Lord Infamous
▪ HuffPost: Ricky 'Lord Infamous' Dunigan dead: Three 6 Mafia founding member dies at 40
Claire Davis
▪ See 'school shootings above'
20,000+ searches
Consumers Energy
▪ FlintJournal: More than 20,000 customers without power in Genesee County, according to Consumers Energy (See 'weather' above)
Trending now on Twitter
▪ #PeopleWhoMadeMyYearGood
▪ #FMACOS
▪ #SNL
▪ #FallonsBack
▪ #shamballa
▪ Watch Hot Girls
▪ Christmas is in 4
▪ Kate McKinnon
▪ Professor Snape
Google trends from previous day (added 12/26/13), Saturday, December 21, 2013
At least 200,000 searches
Gabrielle Union
At least 100,000 but <200,000
Lord Infamous
Claire Davis
Cracker Barrel
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Sunday, December 22, 2013
Saturday, December 21, 2013
Trending: Saturday, December 21, 2013
Published 10:18 a.m. CDT (GMT - 6:00)
Trending now on Google and Twitter at bottom
Today's headlines
2013 in review
▪ NBCNews: Don't tell customers they're fat: 2013's biggest corporate goofs -- Apple's iPhone Apple Maps: Several incidences of users following Siri's directions onto an active runway at the airport in Fairbanks, Alaska
-- Walmart's holding a Thanksgiving food drive for its employees, shortly after protests demanding an annual salary of at least $25,000 for full-time employees
-- ATT&T issues apology after an ad showing a smartphone displaying the 9/11 memorial
-- Papa John's agrees to pay $16.5M for violating Telephone Consumer Protection Act and blasting unwanted advertising texts to customers
-- Coca-Cola apologizes for Canadian bottle-cap message: 'You retard'
-- Lululemon recalls sheer yoga pants; chairman resigns after saying some women's bodies don't work for their pants
--McDonalds responds to concerns about low wages by publishing a helpful financial advisory McGuide for employees
-- The cruise ship industry: Carnival's Triumph fire strands more than 4,000 passengers on board with non-functioning utilities
-- Abercrombie & Fitch defends XL/XXL exclusionary policy
-- Target's plus-size color: Manatee Gray
-- JPMorgan Twitter account intends chat with exec but gets bombarded with slams
▪ NBCNews: 11 breakout hits of the fall season: Sleepy Hollow, Orange is the New Black, death plot twists, choreography, machine guns, the '80s, Masters of Sex, Scandal, American Horror Story, live shows
▪ NPR: For BP cleanup 2013 meant 4.6 million pounds of Gulf Coast oil
Weather news
▪ NBCNews: Heading home for Christmas? Holiday travelers face Mother Nature's wrath
Day length news
▪ USAToday: Saturday is the solstice, the longest night of the year
Thwarted news
▪ FoxNews: Police say they thwarted shooting plot at Colorado school
What-were-they-thinking news/irony news
▪ USAToday: PR director's (Justine Sacco) racist tweet sparks online outcry
Wind farm news
▪ FoxNews: After heated, marathon meeting, Colorado town OKs 37,000-acre wind farm
Underground mystery news
▪ NBCNews: What's stopping Bertha? Seattle debates mysterious object obstructing tunnel machine
Military hazing news
▪ NBCNews: Female sailors forced to march with buckets of human waste, Navy says
South Sudan
▪ CNN: 4 U.S. troops hurt in South Sudan gunfire
N.J. Mall carjacking
▪ CNN: 4 arrested in carjacking and shooting death outside upscale N.J. mall
▪ FoxNews: Police identify four suspects charged in deadly New Jersey mall carjacking
Space station news
▪ CNN: Astronauts perform ISS repairs during spacewalks
▪ USAToday: NASA astronauts begin urgent space station repairs
Supercar news
▪ NBCNews: Supercar war: Lamborghini's 202mph Huracan blows in
Gay marriage news
▪ NPR: Federal court strikes down Utah's gay marriage ban
Animal protection news
▪ FoxNews: Critics push back against federal protection for bird in rural West
Obituaries in the news
▪ CNN: 'It's Kind of a Funny Story' author Ned Vizzini dies at 32
Trending now on Google
100,000+ searches
Justine Sacco
Ned Vizzini: See obituaries above
Alex and Sierra (TV characters, or so thinks the bird without Googling to find out for sure)
50,000+ searches
Dhoom 3
Winter Solstice
Trending now on Twitter
▪ Utah
▪ #HasJustineLandedYet
▪ #2013TaughtMe
▪ #ScottPilgrim
▪ #GetTylerOakleyTo3M
▪ #RickyTruthOrDare
▪ Ned Vizzini
▪ A&E
▪ IAC
Google trends from previous day (added 12/26/13), Friday, December 20, 2013
At least 200,000 searches
▪ Justine Sacco
▪ Winter Solstice
At least 100,000 but <200,000
▪ Ned Vizzini
▪ Alex and Sierra
Trending now on Google and Twitter at bottom
Today's headlines
2013 in review
▪ NBCNews: Don't tell customers they're fat: 2013's biggest corporate goofs -- Apple's iPhone Apple Maps: Several incidences of users following Siri's directions onto an active runway at the airport in Fairbanks, Alaska
-- Walmart's holding a Thanksgiving food drive for its employees, shortly after protests demanding an annual salary of at least $25,000 for full-time employees
-- ATT&T issues apology after an ad showing a smartphone displaying the 9/11 memorial
-- Papa John's agrees to pay $16.5M for violating Telephone Consumer Protection Act and blasting unwanted advertising texts to customers
-- Coca-Cola apologizes for Canadian bottle-cap message: 'You retard'
-- Lululemon recalls sheer yoga pants; chairman resigns after saying some women's bodies don't work for their pants
--McDonalds responds to concerns about low wages by publishing a helpful financial advisory McGuide for employees
-- The cruise ship industry: Carnival's Triumph fire strands more than 4,000 passengers on board with non-functioning utilities
-- Abercrombie & Fitch defends XL/XXL exclusionary policy
-- Target's plus-size color: Manatee Gray
-- JPMorgan Twitter account intends chat with exec but gets bombarded with slams
▪ NBCNews: 11 breakout hits of the fall season: Sleepy Hollow, Orange is the New Black, death plot twists, choreography, machine guns, the '80s, Masters of Sex, Scandal, American Horror Story, live shows
▪ NPR: For BP cleanup 2013 meant 4.6 million pounds of Gulf Coast oil
Weather news
▪ NBCNews: Heading home for Christmas? Holiday travelers face Mother Nature's wrath
Day length news
▪ USAToday: Saturday is the solstice, the longest night of the year
Thwarted news
▪ FoxNews: Police say they thwarted shooting plot at Colorado school
What-were-they-thinking news/irony news
▪ USAToday: PR director's (Justine Sacco) racist tweet sparks online outcry
Wind farm news
▪ FoxNews: After heated, marathon meeting, Colorado town OKs 37,000-acre wind farm
Underground mystery news
▪ NBCNews: What's stopping Bertha? Seattle debates mysterious object obstructing tunnel machine
Military hazing news
▪ NBCNews: Female sailors forced to march with buckets of human waste, Navy says
South Sudan
▪ CNN: 4 U.S. troops hurt in South Sudan gunfire
N.J. Mall carjacking
▪ CNN: 4 arrested in carjacking and shooting death outside upscale N.J. mall
▪ FoxNews: Police identify four suspects charged in deadly New Jersey mall carjacking
Space station news
▪ CNN: Astronauts perform ISS repairs during spacewalks
▪ USAToday: NASA astronauts begin urgent space station repairs
Supercar news
▪ NBCNews: Supercar war: Lamborghini's 202mph Huracan blows in
Gay marriage news
▪ NPR: Federal court strikes down Utah's gay marriage ban
Animal protection news
▪ FoxNews: Critics push back against federal protection for bird in rural West
Obituaries in the news
▪ CNN: 'It's Kind of a Funny Story' author Ned Vizzini dies at 32
Trending now on Google
100,000+ searches
Justine Sacco
Ned Vizzini: See obituaries above
Alex and Sierra (TV characters, or so thinks the bird without Googling to find out for sure)
50,000+ searches
Dhoom 3
Winter Solstice
Trending now on Twitter
▪ Utah
▪ #HasJustineLandedYet
▪ #2013TaughtMe
▪ #ScottPilgrim
▪ #GetTylerOakleyTo3M
▪ #RickyTruthOrDare
▪ Ned Vizzini
▪ A&E
▪ IAC
Google trends from previous day (added 12/26/13), Friday, December 20, 2013
At least 200,000 searches
▪ Justine Sacco
▪ Winter Solstice
At least 100,000 but <200,000
▪ Ned Vizzini
▪ Alex and Sierra
Monday, December 16, 2013
Trending: Monday, December 16, 2013
Published 7:43 p.m. CDT (GMT - 6:00)
Yesterday's Google trends at bottom
Today's headlines
Mall carjacking fatality
▪ NBCNews: Hoboken lawyer shopping with wife killed in carjacking at upscale New Jersey mall: Prosecutors
New Homeland Security secretary
▪ FoxNews: Pengaton lawyer (Jeh C. Johnson) confirmed as Homeland Security secretary
Edward Snowden
▪ USAToday: Snowden says ruling vindicates leak of NSA files
Antibacterial soaps
▪ NBCNews: Prove those antibacterial soaps are better and safe, FDA tells manufacturers
▪ NPR: FDA asks for proof that antibacterial soaps protect health
Vitamins news
▪ CNN: Are multivitamins a waste of money? Editorial in medical journal says yes
CTE/Concussion news
▪ FoxNews: Family says late MLB player Ryan Freel had chronic traumatic enchalopathy
Good Samaritan fatality news
▪ CNN: Indiana groom dies in road accident hours after wedding
Charity scam news
▪ CNN: Man who bilked millions in Navy charity scam gest 28 years
▪ NPR: Man who bilked millions from Navy charity donors gets 28 years
Fraternity deaths
▪ CNN: Pi Delta Psi pledge died of head injuries in fraternity ritual, coroner says
Sonar news
▪ FoxNews: Environmental groups sue over Navy sonar plans
World-of-work news
▪ NBCNews: It pays to be pretty, starting in high school, research says
▪ NBCNews: Climate change expert's fraud was 'crime of massive proportion,' say feds
Liger news
▪ NBCNews: Children celebrate holiday season with a pair of liger cubs
Google
▪ NBCNews: Google buys major military robot maker: Why does search giant want to be 'Big Dog' of automation?
Neanderthal news
▪ NBCNews: Grave suggests Neatherthals intentionally buried their dead
Meteor news
▪ NBCNews: Views of stunning Geminid meteor shower wow skywatchers
Space race news
▪ NBCNews: Monkey launched into space returns home, Iran officials say
Animal abuse news
▪ CBSNews: Global brands ban angora wool after PETA investigation
Outside-the-U.S. news
▪ NBCNews: French public panel recommends legalizing euthanasia
▪ NPR: Poland, Lithuania, nervous over reports of Russian missiles
Yesterday's Google trends with at least 1M searches
Dylan Sprouse
▪ USAToday: Former Disney star Dylan Sprouse responds to nude pics
Peter O'Toole
▪ NYTimes: Peter O'Toole, star of 'Lawrence of Arabia,' is dead at 81
Yesterday's Google trends with at least 500,000 but <1M searches
Dallas Cowboys
▪ WashPost: Tony Romo, Dallas Cowboys epitomize NFC East mess
Yesterday's Google trends with at least 200,000 but <500,000 searches
Homeland
▪ NYT: Shock but no awe in 'Homeland' season's end
WWE
▪ Newsday: WWE TLC: Randy Orton beats John Cena, wins unified title
Joan Fontaine
▪ NYT: Joan Fontaine, who won Oscar for Hitchcock's 'Suspicion,' dies at 96
Yesterday's Google trends with at least 200,000 but <100,000 searches
Tom Laughlin
▪ USAToday: 'Billy Jack' star Tom Laughlin dies
Survivor
▪ MercuryNews: 'Survivor: Blood v. Water' crowns a sole survivor
Chicago Bears
▪ ESPN: Jay Cutler shakes off early rust, leads Bears to victory
Ray Price
▪ CNN: Nashville pioneer Ray Price dead at 87
Trending now on Twitter
▪ NSA
▪ #HolidayBerries
▪ #askdana
▪ #MarryMe69Cents
▪ #safety1st
▪ #RAW
▪ Elton Brand
▪ This T.
▪ Randy Orton
Yesterday's Google trends at bottom
Today's headlines
Mall carjacking fatality
▪ NBCNews: Hoboken lawyer shopping with wife killed in carjacking at upscale New Jersey mall: Prosecutors
New Homeland Security secretary
▪ FoxNews: Pengaton lawyer (Jeh C. Johnson) confirmed as Homeland Security secretary
Edward Snowden
▪ USAToday: Snowden says ruling vindicates leak of NSA files
Antibacterial soaps
▪ NBCNews: Prove those antibacterial soaps are better and safe, FDA tells manufacturers
▪ NPR: FDA asks for proof that antibacterial soaps protect health
Vitamins news
▪ CNN: Are multivitamins a waste of money? Editorial in medical journal says yes
CTE/Concussion news
▪ FoxNews: Family says late MLB player Ryan Freel had chronic traumatic enchalopathy
Good Samaritan fatality news
▪ CNN: Indiana groom dies in road accident hours after wedding
Charity scam news
▪ CNN: Man who bilked millions in Navy charity scam gest 28 years
▪ NPR: Man who bilked millions from Navy charity donors gets 28 years
Fraternity deaths
▪ CNN: Pi Delta Psi pledge died of head injuries in fraternity ritual, coroner says
Sonar news
▪ FoxNews: Environmental groups sue over Navy sonar plans
World-of-work news
▪ NBCNews: It pays to be pretty, starting in high school, research says
▪ NBCNews: Climate change expert's fraud was 'crime of massive proportion,' say feds
Liger news
▪ NBCNews: Children celebrate holiday season with a pair of liger cubs
▪ NBCNews: Google buys major military robot maker: Why does search giant want to be 'Big Dog' of automation?
Neanderthal news
▪ NBCNews: Grave suggests Neatherthals intentionally buried their dead
Meteor news
▪ NBCNews: Views of stunning Geminid meteor shower wow skywatchers
Space race news
▪ NBCNews: Monkey launched into space returns home, Iran officials say
Animal abuse news
▪ CBSNews: Global brands ban angora wool after PETA investigation
Outside-the-U.S. news
▪ NBCNews: French public panel recommends legalizing euthanasia
▪ NPR: Poland, Lithuania, nervous over reports of Russian missiles
Yesterday's Google trends with at least 1M searches
Dylan Sprouse
▪ USAToday: Former Disney star Dylan Sprouse responds to nude pics
Peter O'Toole
▪ NYTimes: Peter O'Toole, star of 'Lawrence of Arabia,' is dead at 81
Yesterday's Google trends with at least 500,000 but <1M searches
Dallas Cowboys
▪ WashPost: Tony Romo, Dallas Cowboys epitomize NFC East mess
Yesterday's Google trends with at least 200,000 but <500,000 searches
Homeland
▪ NYT: Shock but no awe in 'Homeland' season's end
WWE
▪ Newsday: WWE TLC: Randy Orton beats John Cena, wins unified title
Joan Fontaine
▪ NYT: Joan Fontaine, who won Oscar for Hitchcock's 'Suspicion,' dies at 96
Yesterday's Google trends with at least 200,000 but <100,000 searches
Tom Laughlin
▪ USAToday: 'Billy Jack' star Tom Laughlin dies
Survivor
▪ MercuryNews: 'Survivor: Blood v. Water' crowns a sole survivor
Chicago Bears
▪ ESPN: Jay Cutler shakes off early rust, leads Bears to victory
Ray Price
▪ CNN: Nashville pioneer Ray Price dead at 87
Trending now on Twitter
▪ NSA
▪ #HolidayBerries
▪ #askdana
▪ #MarryMe69Cents
▪ #safety1st
▪ #RAW
▪ Elton Brand
▪ This T.
▪ Randy Orton
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