Trending: Sunday, March 16, 2014

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

(What happened a year ago today)


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

Today's headlines
What they're leading with

• CNN: Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 search grows as pilots face increased scrutiny

• NBCNews: Early count shows 95 percent of Crimea voters want to be Russian
• NPR: Crimea: Exit polls support split from Ukraine to join Russia
• FoxNews: Crimea overwhelmingly votes to secede from Ukraine and join Russia
• ABCNews: Latest Headline: Rep. Peter King: 'No terrorist chatter' on missing Malaysian flight
• CBSNews: Malaysia Airlines Flight 370: Post-disappearance moves suggest sophisticated handing, experts say
• USAToday: U.S. leaders denounce vote, urge sanctions on Russia

Missing jet
• NBCNews: Malaysia authorities investigate pilot's flight simulator

Earthquake news
• CNN: Breaking: A 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck off Chile's coast, the U.S. Geological Survey says

Recall news
CNN: Honda Odyssey recall ties 900,000 minivans to fire risk

Infrastructure news
• CNN: New York explosion exposes nation's aging and dangerous gas mains (Manhattan explosion)

Late winter storm
• USAToday: Another winter storm zeroes in on Midwest, East

Nigeria
• NBCNews: Herdsman ill 100 in attackson Nigerian villages
• NPR: Gunmen raid Nigerian villages, killing more than 100 people

Venezuela
• NPR: Venezuela in turmoil for lack of flour, milk and diapers

Air travel news
• USAToday: Sunwing flight diverts to Helena after 'extreme' turbulence

Facebook
• FoxNews: Man accused of throwing brick over Facebook update

Hoax news
• CBSNews: Wayne Knight, a.k.a. Seinfeld's 'Newman,' says he's not dead

Environmental news
• USAToday: Greenland's ice loss nearly tripled in a decade

Out-of-the-ordinary news
• NBCNews: LAPD gets a Lamborghini Gallardo

Obituaries in the news
• See 'David Brenner' below
• FoxNews: Former Ga. Rep. Bo Callaway dies at 86


Yesterday's Google trends with at least 500,000 searches
David Brenner
• CNN: 'Tonight Show' favorite David Brenner dies at 78

Yesterday's Google trends with at least 200,000 but <500,000 searches
UFC 171
• LATimes: UFC 171: Johny Hendricks defeats Robbie Lawler by unanimous decision

Yesterday's Google trends with at least 100,000 but <200,000 searches
Ides of March
• Smithsonian: Top ten reasons to beware the Ides of March

Corned beef and cabbage
• Epicurious: Corned beef with cabbage

Julius Peppers
• ChiTrib: Bears right on Julius Peppers and Charles Tillman

Trending now on Twitter (U.S.)
• One Shining Moment
• #SelectionSunday
• #dontbegonetoolong
• Jesus Shuttlesworth
• Full Schedule
• #HOUvsMIA
• Get Lin
Ray Allen
Lol Lebron
Joey Crawford

Trending: Friday, March 14, 2014

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

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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: Tuesday, February 25, 2014

Published 5:33 p.m. CDT (GMT - 6:00)

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Today's headlines
What they're leading with

▪  CNN: No bluff: U.S. planning possible withdrawal of all troops from Afghanistan

▪  NBCNews: Push behind Arizona 'religious freedom' law has long history
▪  NPR: Religious freedom bills rooted in fears of Obama policies
▪  FoxNews: Foreign Service group urges administration to raise bar on diplomat nominees
▪  ABCNews: Latest headline: Former boxing world champion killed in Venezuela
▪  CBSNews: North Korea shrouded in darkness in stunning new photo from space station
▪  USAToday: Federal super PACs spend big on local elections

Bitcoin news
▪  NBCNews: Bitcoin's back to the wall as it fights to survive
▪  NPR: Bitcoin exchange MtGox goes dark after theft report

Solar flare news
▪  CBSNews: Sun unleashes monster solar flare, biggest of 2014

Space travel news
▪  CNN: UAE Islamic affairs authority warns Muslims against a mission to Mars

Aviation news
▪  NPR: Problems linger for Boeing's flagship 787 airliner

Plane crash news
▪  NBCNews: U.S. fines Asiana Airlines $500K for not helping victims' families

Traffic accident news
▪  CNN: Fender bender in Las Vegas? Forget falling the police. They're not coming

Childhood obesity news
▪  NBCNews: Obesity rates dropping in U.S. preschoolers

Facebook news
▪  CNN: Facebook email is going away -- in case you notice

Auto news
▪  USAToday: Tesla tops 'Consumer Reports' 10 best vehicle list

Recall news
▪  USAToday: GM adds four models to recall, doubles deaths to 13

Yesterday's Google trends with at least 2M searches
Harold Ramis
▪  See Trendilla from yesterday (Monday, February 24, 2014)

Yesterday's Google trends with at least 500,000 but <2M searches
Galaxy S5
▪  See Trendilla from yesterday (Monday, February 24, 2014)

Yesterday's Google trends with at least 200,000 but <500,000 searches
Paula Patton
▪  CNN: Robin Thicke and Paula Patton decide to split

The Voice
▪  LATimes: Season 6 premiere

Yesterday's Google trends with at least 100,000 but <200,000 searches

Liam Neeson
▪  CBSNews: Liam Neeson opens up about wife's death

Piers Morgan
▪  FoxNews: Gun control misfire, sinking ratings: Why Piers Morgan flopped

Emma Coronel
▪  ABCNews: Meet El Chapo's beauty queen wife

Trending now on Twitter (U.S.)
▪  #Vote1DUK
▪  #VoteStoryOfMyLife
▪  #SatelliteFlight
▪  Raymond Felton
▪  Godzilla
▪  #OXYMORON
▪  #TransformationTuesday
▪  Netflix
▪  Mary Jane

Trending: Saturday, February 15, 1014

Published 2:59 p.m. CDT (GMT - 6:00
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Today's headlines
What they're leading with
▪ CNN: The Hunley: Zeroing in on what caused Civil War submarine's sinking
▪ NBCNews: Sochi Olympics, Deep Freeze, Michael Sam comes out
▪ NPR: Walking down the widening aisle of interracial marriages; No rest for the snow-weary: Northeast braces for round 2
▪ FoxNews: States, colleges step up efforts to end sex assaults on campus amid pressure from Obama
▪ ABCNews: Carousel: Who is team USA hockey hero U.J. Oshie?; Cops hunt for missing pregnant woman; 9 wacky Ben-Gal rules in cheerleader's lawsuit
▪ CBSNews: Davis 'disappointed' with finish as U.S. ditches skating suits
▪ USAToday: Russian gays fear return of anti-LGBT campaign

Sochi Olympics news
▪ USAToday: Russian freestyle skier breaks back while training in Sochi
▪ USAToday: No speedskating medals for Shani Davis, USA after switching suits

Marijuana legalization news
▪ NBCNews: Pot fuels surge in drugged driving deaths (duh, of course it does, consequences)

Measles/vaccination news
▪ NBCNews: In California, thousands exposed to measles

BPA and brain issues
 ▪ CNN: 'Putting the next generation of brains in danger:' Products that contain BPA or phtalates

Recall news
▪ NBCNews: 100 tons of dried eggs recalled over salmonella worries

Cruise ship news
▪ CNN: British cruise line: Passenger killed after 'freak wave' hits ship

Culture in the U.S. news
▪ USAToday: 1 in 4 Americans doesn't know the Earth circles sun

It's-not-fiction news
▪ MNT: Earwax contains ethnicity-specific data, according to new study (breast cancer, MSUD, alkaptonuria, ABCC11)

Yesterday's Google trends with at least 1M searches
Ellen Page
▪ USAToday: Ellen Page reveals she is gay

Yesterday's Google trends with at least 200,000 but <1M searches
Earthquake today
▪ See Trendilla from yesterday (Friday, February 14, 2014)

Cheesecake Factory

Darren Sharper

Yesterday's Google trends with at least 100,000 but <200,000 trends
Valentines

About Last Night

Arne Duncan

Sports Illustrated

De La Soul

Trending: Sunday, February 9, 2014

CST 11:33 a.m. (GMT - 6:00)

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Today's headlines
What they're leading with
▪ CNN: Castaway moved to undisclosed location to avoid media crush, sources say
▪ NBCNews: Top storylines: Sochi Olympics, Syria peace talks, Christie bridge scandal
▪ NPR: U.S. speedskaters get a little help from their friends; Is it enough rain for drought-stricken California?
▪ FoxNews: Republicans object to Obama easing immigration rules for terror supporters
▪ ABCNews: Carousel: Live updates: From speed skating to celebrating a big finish; Anderson completes US Olympic sweep in slopestyle; What last meals on death row say about guilt or innocence; Latest headline: Gay ski jumper says protests aren't worth it
▪ CBSNews: Politics at the Olympics: Out of bounds?
▪ USAToday: LIVE: Updates, analysis for figure skating team event's final day; Austria's Matthias Mayer wins downhill gold; Bode Miller misses out

Olympic news
▪ NPR: U.S. sweeps slopestyle snowboarding with women's gold
▪ ABCNews: Winter Olympics 2014: Johnny Quinn explains 'unfortunate mishap' with Sochi bathroom door
▪ USAToday: Jamie Anderson wins women's slopestyle gold
▪ USAToday: Olympic snowboarder's violent crash splits her helmet

Same-sex marriage news
▪ CNN: Feds to expand legal benefits, services for same-sex marriages

Recall news
▪ CNN: Recall of nearly 9 million pounds of meat not fully inspected

New species news
▪ CNN: Giant new species of jellyfish hits beach

Flu news
▪ NBCNews: Flu shot fail: Why doesn't the vaccine always work?

Animal news
▪ NPR: Learning about love from prairie vole bonding

Zoo news
▪ CNN: Danish zoo puts down healthy giraffe to avoid inbreeding

Navy supercarrier news
▪ FoxNews: Scrapped for a penny: USS Forrestal, Navy's first supercarrier,begins final voyage

Facebook news
▪ CNN: Hate your 'look back' on Facebook? Now you can change it

Pop culture news
▪ FoxNews: The Beatles -- why band will still be fab in 50 years
▪ CBSNews: Hanging out with the Beatles

Culture-in-the-U.S. news
▪ CNN: One snapshot in a tragic national picture: Long Island sees explosing heroin use (among teens)

Cross-cultural comparative news
▪ CNN: Danish zoo puts down healthy giraffe to avoid inbreeding

Yesterday's Google trends with at least 200,000 searches
Ashley Wagner
▪ USAToday: Brennan: Ashley Wagner finds redemption in team skating

Olympic medal count
▪ CSM: Olympics medal count: Norway leads

Sage Kotsenburg
▪ USAToday: Sage Kotsenburg rides style to top of Olympic podium

Yesterday's Google trends with at least 100,000 but <200,000 searches
Marcus Smart
▪ ABCNews: Marcus Smart shoves fan in loss

Tara Lipinski
▪ HuffPost: Gold Medalist Tara Lipinski on how she dealt with Olympic pressure

Hannah Kearney
▪ BostonGlobe: Hannah Kearney settles for bronze in moguls

Yulia Lipnitskaya
▪ Yahoo: Teen prodigy Lipnitskaya leads Russian dominance

Trending now on Twitter (U.S.)
▪ Yulia Lipnitskaya
▪ #TheWalkingDeadMarathon
▪ This 15
▪ #AskAaron
▪ #tphonline
▪ Gracie Gold
▪ #Olympics2014
▪ Schindler's List
▪ #Sochi2014

Trending: Saturday, November 2, 2013

Published 10:22 a.m. CDT (GMT - 5:00)

Yesterday's Google trends at bottom

Today's headlines
LAX shooting (gun violence)
▪ CNN: Deadly LAX shooting: Why did he do it?
▪ NBCNews: LAX victim was 'very proud' father, husband: Friend

Solar eclipse
▪ NBCNews: Watch for Sunday's strange solar ecslipse on East Coast -- and online

Pirate news
▪ CNN: African pirates use millions of dollars ransom on drugs, real estate, prostitutes

Taliban news
▪ CNN: Minister: Death of Pakistan Taliban leader won't delay peace talks

Facebook news
▪ CNN: On Facebook, a growing teenage problem

Branding/product news
▪ CNN: Kraft removing artificial dyes from some mac and cheese

Tablet news
▪ CNN: Samsung edges Apple in tablet-satisfaction survey

Social news
▪ NBCNews: The selfie won't die -- in fact, it just got its own social network

Recall news
▪ NBCNews: Honda recalls 344,000 Odyssey minivans in U.S.

Rare disease news
▪ ABCNews: Wisconsin community rallies around boy born with no eyes

Culture-outside-the-U.S. news
▪ USAToday: What the world eats for breakfast

Yesterday's Google trends with at least 2M searches
LAX shooting
▪ See 'LAX shooting above'

Yesterday's Google trends with at least 200,000 searches
iPad Air
▪ USAToday: Apple launches the iPad air

Ender's Game
▪ NBCNews: 'Ender's Game' will remind you of other sci-fi plots

Yesterday's Google trends with at least 100,000 but <200,000 searches
Movember
▪ HuffPost: Welcome to Movember

Chipotle
▪ NYPost: Chipotle too hot for Einhorn

Justin Blackmon
▪ ESPN.com: Justin Blackmon banned indefinitely

Daylight Savings Time 2013
▪ NatGeo: Daylight Savings Time 2013: When does it end? And why?

Nicki Minaj
▪ HuffPost: Nicki Minja wins with Halloween costume

Trending: Monday, October 28, 2013

Published 3:21 a.m. CDT (GMT - 5:00)

Yesterday's Google trends at bottom

Today's headlines
Spying news
▪ CNN: Report: White House stopped phone tapping of German Chancellor Angela Merkel,  other foreign leaders, this summer
▪ NPR: U.S. spying update: Europe fumes and protestors rally in D.C.

Obamacare Website woes
▪ CNN: Obamacare malfunction  shuts down application tool
▪ FoxNews: Obamacare website suffers new outage as Republicans say glitches only 'tip of the iceberg'

Hurricane Sandy a year later
▪ NBCNews: A year after Superstorm Sandy, numerous pets lost, abandoned remained unclaimed

Recall news
▪ CNN: Broccoli  salad recalled for possible Listeria

World Series
▪ Bleacher Report Red Sox vs. Cardinals: Score, grades and analysis for 2013 World Series Game 4

Psychology news
▪ NBCNews: Good-looking people mess with your memory, study finds

IU lockdown
▪ ABCNews: 2 arrested after stabbling at Indiana University

Health news
▪ USAToday: Even healthy kids can die from flu complications

Outside-the-U.S. news
▪ CNN: 3 dead after jeep crashes and catches fire in Beijing's Tiananmen Square

Yesterday's Google  trends with at least 2M searches
Lou Reed
▪ CNN: Rock legend Lou Reed dies at 71

Dez Bryant
▪ Detroit News: Cowboys defend Dez Bryant's visible 'passion' on sidelines

Chris Brown
▪ CNN: Chris Brown jailed on felony assault charge

Yesterday's Google trends with at least 100 but <200,000 searches
Aaron Rodgers
▪ ChicagoTribune: It's a breeze for Packers, Rodgers vs. Vikings

WWE
▪ MiamiHerald: Will it be trick or treat for WWE's Daniel Bryan, Randy Orton?

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

Yesterday's Google trends with at least 200,000 searches
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

Yesterday's Google trends with at least 100,000 searches
Seahawks
▪ ESPN: Russell Wilson, Marshawn Lynch lead Seahawks past Cardinals

Stenographer
▪ USAToday: House stenographer loses it during shutdown vote

Trending: Saturday, October 12, 2013

Published 9:50 a.m. CDT (GMT - 5:00)

Yesterday's Googlet trends at bottom

Today's headlines
Government shutdown news
▪ NBCNews: Saturday session: Republicans try to close in on fiscal deal
▪ NBCNews: Statue of Liberty, Mount Rushmore, other national parks to repen during shutdown
▪ NBCNews: Shutdown forces D.C. lottery to delay paying winners
▪ USAToday: Top 10 states hurt by the government shutdown

New Mexico youth ranch
▪ CNN: Police: Nine teens missing from youth ranch in New Mexico
▪ FoxNews: 9 teens reported missing from NM youth ranch at center of abuse probe

Cyclone news
▪ CNN: Cyclone Phailin menaces India's coast, as hundreds flee
▪ NBCNews: Rain, wind pound India coast as 'super cyclone' barrels down; 100,000 flee
▪ NPR: More than 500,000 people flee as cyclone Phailin hits India

MRSA news
▪ BleacherReport: NFLPA reportedly may advise Bucs and Eagles not to play depending on MRSA report

Biker-SUV clash
▪ CNN: 3 indicted in bikers' clash with SUV driver; 3 NYPD officers under investigation

Kendrick Johnson
▪ CNN: Parents of Georgia teen who was found dead in rolled-up gym mat want answers

Fired U.S. missil commander (Michael Carey)
▪ NPR: Air Force fires top U.S. missile commander

Banking news
▪ NPR: JPMorgan, dogged by legal costs, reports hefty 3Q loss

Recall news
▪ NBCNews: Costco recalls 40,000 pounds of rotiesserie chicken for salmonella risk

Nobel Prize news
▪ NBCNews: 'What news?:' How Higgs found out he won the Nobel Prize for physics 

Google news
▪ CNN: Why your face might appear in Google ads, and how to stop it

Elite housing news
▪ CNN: Mitt Romney gets his car elevator
▪ NBCNews: Mark Zuckerberg spends $30 million on four homes to ensure privacy

Caregiver news
▪ NBCNews: A disabled adult child can mean an uncertain future for parents

Archaeology news
▪ NBCNews: Ancient city's strip mall unearthed in Greece

Nutrition news
▪ NPR: More evidence against vitamin D to build bones in middle age

World-of-work news (gender)
▪ USAToday: Yellen likely to join other women in key economic roles

Out-of-the-ordinary news
▪ NBCNews: London firefighters: Don't put your penis in a toaster

Yesterday's Google trends with at least 5M searches
Adrian Peterson
▪ NBSSports: Police say Adrian Peterson's 2-year-old son has died 
▪ FoxNews: Adrian Peterson's 2-year-old son reported dead after alleged beating by man dating mom

Firearm news
▪ NBCNews: Newtown residents oppose plan to make Dec. 14 'Guns Save Lives Day'

Market research metholodgy news (price point)
▪ ABCNews: Is your coffee too cheap? Using  brain waves to test prices

Yesterday's Google trends with at least 200,000 but <5M searches
MRSA
▪ See 'MRSA' above

Yesterday's Google trends with at least 100,000 but <100, searches
Dodgers
▪ NYTimes: Beltran lifts Cardinals past Dodgers in a taut Game 1

Captain Phillips
▪ RottenTomatoes: Tomatometer: 95%; Audience: 92%

Nobel Peace Prize
▪ See 'Nobel Prize' above and Trendilla from previous two days

Maria de Villota
▪ USAToday: Former Formula One test driver Maria de Villota dies