Trending: Thursday, April 17, 2014

Published 4:21 p.m. CDT (GMT - 6:00)

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(Read what was happening on this day last year)

Today's headlines
What they're leading with

▪ CNN: Ukraine crisis talks: Diplomats urge end to violence, security for all

▪ NBCNews: Russia and Ukraine agree on steps to end crisis
▪ NPR: Obama: Affordable Care Act enrollment hits 8 million
▪ FoxNews: Initial agreement reached to de-escalate Ukraine crisis
▪ ABCNews: Latest headline: Obama: 8 million signed up for health care
▪ CBSNews: Obamacare "is working," time to move past political fight, Obama says
▪ USAToday: Obama hails health care sign-ups

Ferry disaster
▪ CNN: Questions mount in South Korean ferry disaster; hundreds still missing

Stabbing news
▪ NBCNews: Student stabbed at Piper High School in Sunrise: Police

Pop culture
▪ NBCNews: Chelsea announces pregnancy

Facebook
▪ USAToday: Faceboo rolls out 'Nearby Friend' feature

Earth-like planet news
▪ NBCNews: 'Earth's cousin:' Scientists find alien planet that's most like home
▪ FoxNews: Astronomers discover most 'habitable,' Earth-like planet yet
▪ USAToday: Kepler's cool find: Another Earth-size planet (Kepler-186f)

Polio news
▪ NPR: Polio hits Equatorial Guinea, threatens Central Africa

World of work in the news
▪ CNN: Ousted Yahoo exec gets $58 million golden parachute

Yesterday's Google trends with at least 200,000 searches
Andre Johnson
▪ FoxNews: Rapper cuts off penis in suicide attempt, re-attach fails, report says

Real Madrid
▪ Telegraph: Gareth Bale says Copa de Ray final winning goal for Real Madrid is a 'dream come true'

Jenny McCarthy
▪ UsMag: Jenny McCarthy, Donnie Wahlberg engaged

Obituaries in the news
▪ CNN: Gabriel Garcia Marquez dies at 87

Yesterday's Google trends with at least 100,000 but <200,000 searches
South Korea ferry
▪ See above

Jabari Parker
USAToday: Duke's Jabari Parker declares for the NBA draft

Trending now on Twitter (U.S.)
▪ RIP Gabriel Garcia Marquez
▪ Miley Cyrus
▪ #10DaysUntilProblem
▪ #fanficsthatshouldbemovies
▪ #GraciasGabo
▪ One Hundred Years of Solitude
▪ Love in the Time of Cholera
▪ #rockinchat
▪ #8Million

Trending: Sunday, March 23, 2014

Published 12:24 p.m. CDT (GMT - 6:00)

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(Read what happened a year ago today)

Today's headlines
What they're leading with
• CNN: Search for missing Malaysian airliner turns up no new debris sightings
• NBCNews: House intelligence chairman calls for sending arms to Ukraine
• NPR: The most powerful nerd in the universe, and a scientific anomaly (Neil deGrasse Tyson)
• FoxNews: Malaysia says French satellite images show possible debris from missing flight
• ABCNews: Latest headline: The technology behind the search for the vanished Malaysia Airlines plane
• CBSNews: Malaysia: More satellite data show possible jet debris in Indian Ocean
• USAToday: Obama 'humane' order roils immigration debate

Winter in spring news
• NBCNews: Spring snow set to bring more cold, snow

Landslide news
• CNN: People cry for help from underneath rubble after 3 die in Washington landslide
• NBCNews: Huge Washington mudslide kills three and dams a river
• NPR: Massive mudslide kills 3 in Washington State

Avalanche news
• NBCNews: Avalanche at Sochi Olympics skiing resort kills 2

Gang violence (gun violence) news
• CNN: Teenager charged with killing NY bus rider who was not target

Oil spill news
• NBCNews: Barge leaks 'sticky, tarry' oil after ship collision
• NPR: Oil spill cleanup impedes major Texas ship channel

Infectious disease news
• CNN: At least 59 people dead in Guinea Ebola outbreak
• CNN: India beats odds, beats polio

Technology obsolescence news
• NPR: Preserving audio for the future is a race against time

Hazing news
• FoxNews: Lawsuit alleges North Carolina student died after being 'viciously hazed'

Pop culture
• USAToday: 'Divergent' emerges as box-office champ, new franchise

World-of-work news
• CBSNews: What jobs have the most psychopaths?

It's-not-fiction news
• CNN: Elephants escape circus in St. Louis, damage cars in Shriners' lot

Obituaries in the news
• NPR: Adolfo Suarez, president who ushered in Spain's Democracy, dies
• CBSNews: Bataan Death March survivor who campaigned to correct historic photo dies at 91

Generational news
• NBCNews: New normal: Many Gen Xers see future in rubble

Yesterday's Google trends with at least 100,00 searches
• (This is very unusual, but there were none)

Trending now on Twitter (U.S.)
• #MarchMadness
• #NewGagaSingleGUY
• #WatchGUYOnVevo
• #5SOSonBT40
• Tracy Abrams
• #ElClasico
• Perry Ellis
• Stanford
• FrankampDivergent

Trending: Monday, November 25, 2013

Published 5:04 p.m. CDT (GMT - 6:00)

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Today's headlines
Steubenville rape case
▪ CNN: Four more school employees charged in Steubenville rape case

Sandy Hook report
▪ CNN: Motive behind Sandy Hook shooting remains unknown, Conn. officials report
▪ NBCNews: Newtown report: Shooter Adam Lanza had no clear motive, was obsessed with Columbine

Weather news
▪ NBCNews: Thanksgiving travel plans under threat in Northeast as deadly storm closes in
▪ NPR: As storms spread, Thanksgiving travel is looking tricky

Syria/Polio
▪ NBCNews: Polio outbreak 'expected to spread' in Syria
▪ NPR: Syrian peace talks set to start in January

Obamacare/Healthcare.gov
▪ NPR: Health exchanges brace for a December deluge

Knockout game
▪ NBCNews: 'Knockout game:' Teens attack innocent people just for fun

Yale gunman report
▪ CNN: Police search  Yale for alleged gunman after 911 call
▪ ABCNews: Yale locked down after caller says roommate going to shoot people

DNA test news
▪ NBCNews: Stop selling those DNA tests, FDA tells 23andMe

Irony news
▪ CNN: Comedian Jay Leggett dies after killing deer

Building-collapse news
▪ CNN: Contractor charged with murder after Philadelphia building collapse

Birth control news
▪ CNN: Morning-after pill may not work for overweight women

Homeless rescue news
▪ CNN: Hotel rewards homeless man for returning wallet

Animal news
▪ TIME: Report: 'Life of Pi' tiger 'damn near drowned on set

Culture-in-the U.S. news
▪ CNN: Yahoo hires Katie Couric as 'global anchor'
▪ NBCNews: Leisure travelers increasingly affluent -- and female

Outside-the-U.S. news
▪ NBCNews: China's 'inflammatory' airspace announcement draws sharp rebuke from US
▪ NBCNews: Putin signs law banning advertisements for abortion in Russia

Out-of-the-ordinary news
▪ FoxNews: European crisis: Half of HIV infections in Greece are self-inflicted

Yesterday's Google trends with at least 1M searches
AMA
▪ CNN: American Music Awards: The top 6 moments

Yesterday's Google trends with at least 500,000 but <1M searches
Patriots
▪ BostonGlobe: Patriots deliver a win for the ages

Family Guy
▪ CNN: 'Family Guy' shocker: Major character killed off

Yesterday's Google trends with at least 200,000 but <100,000 searches
Ariana Grande
▪ NYDailyNews: Ariana Grande earns applause from Lady Gaga

American Music Awards
▪ See AMA above

Green Bay Packers
▪ NFL.com: Green Bay Packers rally, settle for tie with Vikings

Yesterday's Google trends with at least 100,000 but <200,000 searches
Dallas Cowboys
▪ ESPN: Tony Romo, Cowboys snap Giants' 4-game winning streak

WWE
▪ Newsday: WWE Survivor Series: John Cena, Randy Orton retain titles, hint at unification

Pitbull
▪ ABCNews: Batkid saves 'Pitbull' on Good Morning America

TLC
▪ WashPost: TLC's American Music Awards performance: A cause to mourn the girl group

Trending now on Twitter
▪ Iran
▪ #mcm
▪ Santa
▪ Were
▪ Y'all
▪ #BritneyJean
▪ New York
▪ Thanksgiving

Trending: Sunday, November 3, 2013

Published 8:11 a.m. CST (GMT - 6:00)

Yesterday's Google trend at bottom

Today's headlines
Gun violence news
▪ CNN: Shooting at North Carolina university leaves one injured

Earthquake news
▪ CNN: 5.0-magnitude earthquake strikes near Tokyo

Tropical storm news
▪ NBCNews: Tropical Storm Sonia froms in Pacific off Mexico

Syria/polio
▪ NBCNews: Syria polio outbreak a heartbreaking setback in struggle against merciless virus

Journalist kidnappings
▪ CNN: Hollande calls emergency meeting after French journalists abducted, killed in Mali

Skydiving news
▪ NBCNews: Skydivers leap to escape fiery collision of planes over Wisconsin

Another Cirque du Soleil injury
▪ CNN: Cirque du Soleil 'Wheel of Death' performer injured in Vegas show

Animal health care (merging with human)
▪ NBCNews: Wild science: Breakthroughs in animal health care may hold treatments for humans

Personal air-conditioning (Wristify)
▪ FoxNews: MIT students develop wearable cooling device that could make air conditioning obsolete

Blizzard animal deaths
▪ USAToday: S.D. ranchers carry on after thousands of cattle die
(11,000 cattle, 360 sheep, 222 horses)

World-of-work news
KnoxNews: Millions of Americans piece together part-time jobs to get by

Outside-the-U.S. news
▪ CNN: Report: 7 dead in mine blast in southwest China
▪ CNN: Tunisia extends state of emergency
▪ CBSNews: 4,000-pound, World War II bomb forces mass evacuation in Germany
Yesterday's Google trends with at least 200,000 searches
Solar eclipse 2013
▪ See Trendilla from yesterday (Saturday, November 2, 2013)

Yesterday's Google trends with at least 100,000 but <200,000 searches
Time change
▪ See Trendilla from yesterday (Saturday, November 2, 2013)

Breeders Cup 2013
▪ USAToday: Breeders' Cup starts with rare DQ and  horse euthanized

Trending: Friday, June 28, 2013

Published 3:46 p.m. CST (GMT - 5:00)

Yesterday's Google trends at bottom

Today's headlines
Boston bombing aftermath
▪ NBCNews: 'I can't stand to see such evil go unpunished:' Indictment reveals Tsarnaev's boat message

Heatwave
▪ CNN: Dangerously hot temperatures roasting the Southwest
▪ NBCNews: Extreme weekend heat wave to scorch western US
▪ ABCNews: Temperatures could hit 120 in the West

Leak investigations
▪ NBCNews: Ex-Pentagon general target of leak investigation, sources say
▪ NPR: U.S. Army restricts access to 'The Guardian' Website

Snowden
▪ NBCNews: 'No one wants this fight:' Ecuadoreans divided over Snowden asylum

Ricin
▪ FoxNews: Texas woman indicted in ricin letter-to-Obama case
▪ CNN: Woman indicted in mailing of ricin-laced letters to Obama, Bloomberg

Afghanistan
▪ NPR: U.S. pacifies in Afghan village, but will it stay that way?

Science news
▪ FoxNews: UK may approve creating babies with DNA from 3 people

Gun violence
▪ CNN: Conorer: Ohio boys' deaths a homicide-suicide
▪ NBCNews: Two injured in shooting at Colorado corrections department facility

Missing sailboat
▪ NBCNews: Missing American schooner 'probably had a catastrophic event;' 7 remain missing

Vatican news
▪ NBCNews: Vatican monsignor arrested over alleged fraud, corruption and slander, lawyer says

Health news
▪ NPR: Polio outbreak in Somalia jeopardizes global eradication

Technology news
▪ CNN: BlackBerry 10 is not a hit; stock nosedives 28%
▪ ABCNews: Blackberry's comeback in doubt as new phone sales fizzle

Faith-based birth control Obamacare
▪ NBCNews: Final issue on birth-control access for faith-based employers

Aviation news
▪ FoxNews: Delta punished for breaking the rules on passenger bumping

Good Samaritan news
▪ NBCNews: Good Samaritan who saved young girl dies from injuries
▪ FoxNews: Good Samaritan who saved drowning girl dies from injuries weeks after rescue

Royal baby news
▪ NBCNews: Crowds, cakes, cocktails: UK prepares to greet royal baby

Sarah Murnaghan lung transplant
▪ NBCNews: Dying girl, 10, received two sets of lungs after national debate

Pop culture
▪ CNN: Alec Baldwin launches Twitter rant against journalist
▪ NBCNews: Alec Baldwin Twitter-rants after wife accused of tweeting during Gandolfini funeral
▪ NBCNews: J.C. Penney, Walgreens latest of 10 companies to drop Paula Deen

Culture-in-the-U.S. news
▪ NBCNews: Wedding industry preps for bells to ring after DOMA ruling
▪ ABCNews: Gay man adopts his partner to avoid inheritance tax

Outside-the-U.S. news
▪ CBSNews: Egypt: American killed during violent clashes
▪ NPR: China's 'shadow banking' and how it threatens the economy
▪ CNN: Egyptian clerics warn of 'civil war' ahead of mass protests
▪ NBCNews: Not-so-eternal flame: JFK-linked memorial goes out

Out-of-the-ordinary news
▪ NBCNews: Car crash leaves man, dog coated in paint
▪ NBCNews: Santa Ana immigration officer took cash, egg rolls as bribes, feds say
▪ FoxNews: 100-year-old grandma graduates from elementary school in Mexico
▪ FoxNews: Woman's 'foot orgasm' is first known case
▪ ABCNews: N.J. woman gives birth on front lawn

Yesterday's Google trends with at least 2M searches
NBA draft
▪ BleacherReport: 2013 NBA draft results: Biggest winners and losers

Yesterday's Google trends with at least 200,000 but <2M searches
Paul Pierce
▪ SBNation: Paul Pierce and Kevin Garnett get traded as the Celtics finally blow it up

Yesterday's Google trends with at least 100,000 but <200,000 searches
Wimbledon
▪ Newsday: Murray eases into Wimbledon 4th round

Trey Burke
▪ SI: Trey Burke not hottest name in draft, but he could be the best player

Immigration reform
▪ NBCNews: Does immigration reform stand a chance?

Jared Leto
▪ NYDailyNews: Jared Leto dresses in drag as he dons pink wig, fake eyelashes, red lipstick for Candy cover

Dwight Howard
▪ USAToday: Lakers GM to Dwight Howard: 'We care about you'