Published 11:02 a.m. CDT (GMT - 6:00)
Trending now on Google and Twitter at bottom
Today's headlines
2013 in review
▪ FoxNews: Top 5 ObamaCare delays of 2013
▪ USAToday: Horovitz: 5 worst ads of 2013 more than stank
-- 5. Kmart: 'Ship My Pants'
-- 4. Hyundai: 'Pipejob'
-- 3. Poo-Pourri: 'Girls Don't Poop'
-- 2. Mountain Dew 'Line Up'
-- 1. GoDaddy 'Perfect Match'
Christmas Eve spacewalk
▪ CBSNews: Spacewalk could finish space station cooling system fix
▪ USAToday: NASA astronauts make rare Christmas Eve spacewalk
Edward Snowden
▪ CNN: 5 takeaways from Edward Snowden's Washington Post interview
▪ USAToday: Snowden says his 'mission's already accomplished'
Gun violence
▪ NBCNews: One dead, one critically injured in shooting outside San Diego mall
In-the-line-of-fire fatalities
▪ NBCNews: Mississippi cop slain, partner wounded by bank robbery suspects
McDonalds news/irony news
▪ NBCNews: McDonald's employee site bashes fast food
Zoo visitor news
▪ NBCNews: Drunk woman enters elephant pen at Denver Zoo, gets electric shock: cops
Car mileage news
▪ NBCNews: Hyundai, Kia to pay millions in gas mileage settlement
Historic persons news
▪ CNN: Alan Turing, British code-breaker castrated for homosexuality, receives pardon
▪ CNN: Lifting the veil of secrecy: Meet the female code-breakers of WWII
▪ NPR: Alan Turing, who cracked Nazi code, gets posthumous pardon
Nutrition in the news
▪ NBCNews: Is it safe for pregnant women to eat peanuts?
Obesity news
▪ USAToday: Obesity levels off, but extreme cases tipping the scales
Social egg-freezing news
▪ NBCNews: Doctors' group sounds warning on freezing eggs to buy time on your biological clock
Technology news
▪ CNN: In thin air: Could touch display projected on mist replace physical screens
North Korea
▪ NPR: Money seen as a motive in execution of North Korea's No. 2
▪ FoxNews: North Korea's Kim Jong Un reportedly 'very drunk' when ordering executions
South Sudan
▪ NBCNews: South Sudan: 75 bodies found in mass graves following ethnic violence
▪ NPR: 150 Marines to be sent for possible mission in South Sudan
Egypt
▪ NBCNews: Egypt security base suicide bomb kills 12, wounds 134
al-Qaida apology news
▪ NPR: Al-Qaida group admits 'mistake and guilt' for botched raid
Online shopping news
▪ ABCNews: Online retailers tackle high rate of customer returns
Out-of-the-ordinary news
▪ CNN: Coyotes-Sabres game ends in craziest way possible
▪ USAToday: Disabled girl who died had nearly $1.2 million estate
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▪ #AskKeaton
▪ Happy Christmas Eve
▪ #22LouisPicsFromMyCameraRoll
▪ Alan Turing
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▪ Donte Whitner
▪ GOOD Santa
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12/26/13), Monday, December 23, 2013At least 2M searches
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Tuesday, December 24, 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
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