Trending: Monday, February 10, 2014

Published 3:09 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: Documents reveal Hillary Clinton's private reaction to her husband's cheating scandal with Monica Lewinsky
▪ NBCNews: Top storylines: Sochi Olympics; Michael Sam comes out
▪ NPR: It took a eugenicist to come up with 'moron;' U.S. citizen may be targeted with drone strike: reports
▪ FoxNews: Highway horror: Wrong-way crashes kill 11 in Florida, California
ABCNews: Serial killer feared after Virginia shooting; Speed skating twins pull off rare Olympic feat; Julia Mancuso takes bronze in super-combined
▪ CBSNews: Will a partisan divide derail universal pre-K?
▪ USAToday: Winter storm forecast to lash South with snow, ice

Extreme sports fatality deaths
▪ CNN: Newlywed dies after BASE jump attempt in Zion National Park in Utah

Bitcoin news
▪ CNN: Bitcoin is under siege

Philanthropy news
▪ NPR: Mark Zuckerberg, wife were most generous philanthropists in 2013

Unintended consequences news
▪ NPR: Prospectors see a golden lining in California's drought

Killed-by-animal news
▪ FoxNews: Tiger evades hunters, kills 10th person in India in 6 weeks

Loch Ness monster (non) news
▪ USAToday: Has the Loch Ness monster gone belly-up?

Astrophysics news
▪ FoxNews: Australian scientists discover oldest known star

Cross-cultural comparative news
▪ CNN: 'Nobody liked my selfie and now the country is going to hell' (in Thailand)

Culture-in-the-U.S. news
▪ NBCNews: Study shows TV viewers watch when, where they want

Yesterday's Google trends with at least 500,000 searches
Flappy Bird
▪ CNN: Developer yanks 'Flappy Bird' after game soars to success

Walking Dead
▪ NBCNews: Fans have had enough of Carl and his vat of pudding

Michael Sam
▪ NPR: Coming out complicates player's prospects, NFL execs say

Paul McCartney
▪ NYT: 50 years later, Beatles steal another show

Gracie Gold
▪ USAToday: 13 things you need to know about U.S. skating sensation Gracie Gold


Yesterday's Google trends with at least 200,000 but <500,000 searches
Jamie Anderson
▪ CBSNews: Winter Olympics 2014: Jamie Anderson completes U.S. sweep of slopestyle

Shia LaBeouf
▪ FoxNews: Shia LaBeouf's bizarre antics on nothing new


Yesterday's Google trends with at least 100,000 but <200,000 searches
Silje Norendal
▪ HollywoodLife: Siljie Norendal: Is this Norwegian snowboarder the hottest Olympian?

Olga Graf
▪ FoxNews: Russian speed skater Olga Graf gives different kind of show

John Lennon
▪ CBSNews: Julian Lennon on his father, Beatles' impact


Twitter (U.S.) trending now▪
#CollegeDropout
▪ #HangWithTyler
▪ Michael Sam
▪ Sibling Tag
▪ Nash & Hayes Grier
▪ #dookfans
▪ #DerekJeter
▪ #curling
▪ Blake Griffin

Trending: Monday, December 2, 2013

Published 5:05 p.m. CDT (GMT - 6:00)

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Today's headlines
AIDS/HIV news
▪ NPR: Obama launches HIV cure initiative, ups pledge for global health

Pope news
▪ CNN: Rush Limbaugh: Pope is preaching 'pure Marxism'

Obamacare/Supreme Court news
▪ FoxNews: High court ends Liberty University lawsuit over ObamaCare

Drone news
▪ CNN: Amazon says drone deliveries are the future
▪ NBCNews: 'What if a Amazon delivery drone crashes into me?' and 6 other questions

Infection/Infection crime news
▪ NBCNews: Serial infector gets 39 years in  hepatitis case
▪ FoxNews: US Airways flight delayed over tuberculosis scare

Bad headline news
▪ ABCNews: Iceland cop killing first in nation's history

Outside-the-U.S. news
▪ TIME: Shanghai officials tell children, elderly to stay inside due to smog
▪ ABCNews: Iceland cop killing first in nation's history

Yesterday's Google trends with at least 2M searches
Cyber Monday deals
▪ CNN: Cyber Monday deals on phones, TVs, clothes

Yesterday's Google trends with at least 500,000 but <2M searches
Walking Dead
▪ CNN: Who died? Carnage on the 'Walking Dead' finale

Yesterday's Google trends with at least 200,000 but <500,000 searches
Eric Decker
▪ USAToday: Broncos' Peyton Manning, Erick Decker too much for Chiefs 

Michael Vick

Maria Bello
▪ NYDailyNews: Mario Bello comes out as gay

Metro North
▪ NYT: Metro North train was speeding before derailment, investigators say

▪ Kardashian Christmas Card 2013

Yesterday's Google trends with at least 100,000 but <200,000 searches
Patriots
▪ BostonGlobe: Patriots proving they're good enough to contend

Jasmine Pilchard-Gosness
▪ NYDailyNews: Paul Walker's long-time girlfriend broken up over moving star's death: report

Today's U.S. Twitter trends
▪ Tom Daley
▪ #CyberMondayMadness
▪ #texasdirectionerprobs
▪ Steve Sarkisian
▪ #twug
▪ #OklahomaFolllowTrain
▪ #Together
▪ Mama Joyce
▪ Christmas

Trending: Monday, October 14, 2013

Published 3:14 p.m. CDT (GMT - 5:00)

Yesterday's Google trends at bottom

Today's headlines
Colombus Day
▪ ABCNews: Columbus Day 2013: Hero, villain or both?

Government shutdown
▪ CNN: White House meeting with Congressional leaders postponed
▪ NBCNews: White House proposes meeting with Hill leaders as talks continue
▪ NPR: Shutdown hinders S.D. post-blizzard cleanup

Debt crisis
▪ NBCNews: China state media blasts U.S. shutdown, calls for 'de-Americanized' world

Tropical storms/cyclone
▪ NBCNews: Two tropical storms bear down on Mexico's Pacific coast
▪ NBCNews: Deadly cyclone Phailin destroys $4B worth of crops

Nobel Prize news
▪ NPR: Americans win economics Nobel for interpreting stock prices

EBT glitch news
▪ FoxNews: Black Friday comes early as computer glitches cause welfare benefits frenzy
▪ CBSNews: EBT benefit card glitch sparks Walmart shopping sprees in Louisiana

Aviation news
▪ ABCNews: Door falls off plane, lands on Calif. motel roof

Al Libi/al Qaeda
▪ CNN: Al Libi taken to New York week after capture
▪ NBCNews: Al Qaeda suspect, captured in Libya, is taken to New York to face charges

Fatalies on the job
▪ CNN: Delivery driver dies during construction of new San Francisco 49ers stadium

Health news
▪ CBSNews: BPA exposure may increase miscarriage risk in pregnant women

Organizational news
▪ NBCNews: Airlines test new ways to board planes

World-of-work news
▪ CBSNews: Poll: Half of older workers delay retirement plans

Survivalist news
▪ NBCNews: San Francisco man found after 18 days in Mendocino forest

Cruise ship news
▪ NBCNews: Boy, 6, drowns in pool aboard a Carnival Cruise

Culture-in-the-U.S. news
▪ USAToday: Report: Some Macy's open for Thanksgiving

Outside-the-U.S. news
▪ NPR: Death toll in India temple stampede rises

Yesterday's Google trends with at least 1M searches
Walking Dead
▪ USAToday: AMC's 'Walking Dead' struts to record ratings

Yesterday's Google trends with at least 200,000 searches
Red Sox
▪ NYTimes: Ortiz slams new life into Red Sox

Lauren Conrad
▪ NYDailyNews: Lauren Conrad engaged to boyfriend William Tell

Yesterday's Google trends with at least 100,000 but <200,000 searches
BART strike
▪ MercuryNews: BART strike avoided for Monday, but possible shutdown now looms for Tuesday

Redskins
▪ USAToday: Cowboys defense rebounds to top rival Redskins

Chicago Marathon
▪ ChicagoTribune: Chicago Marathon latest feat for last finisher

Helen Lasichanh
▪ NYDailyNews: Pharrell Williams marries Helen Lasichanh in Florida; Usher, Busta Rhymes perform mini concert at ceremony

Steelers
▪ USAToday: Steelers get first victory,  beat Jets