2018-02-13 Dutch Breaks Record, American Lands Jump, Norway Leads Medal Count
This is What’s Trending today … The Winter Olympics are supposed to be cold, but not this cold. During the first weekend of competition in South Korea, strong winds and…
2018-02-09 Norway’s Olympic Cooks Gets 15,000 Eggs Instead of 1,500
This is What’s Trending Today… More than 100 athletes from Norway will compete in the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics, which open Friday, February 9. They and the other world-class competitors,…
2018-02-06 Philadelphia Eagles Team Is Underdog No More
This is What’s Trending Today … The “underdog” Philadelphia Eagles football team has won its first Super Bowl. The team defeated the favored New England Patriots in the National Football…
2018-02-03 Tesla Chief Sells $10 Million in Flamethrowers… But Why?
This is What’s Trending Today… Elon Musk – head of electric carmaker Tesla and aerospace company SpaceX – is known for using creative methods to raise money for his businesses.…
2018-02-02 Google Doodle Honors Carter G. Woodson, the ‘Father of Black History’
This is What’s Trending Today… February 1 marks the beginning of Black History Month in the United States and other countries around the world. On Thursday, Google honored the month…
2018-02-01 Meet the Whale That Can Say ‘Hello’ and ‘Bye Bye’
This is What’s Trending Today… Wikie is a 14-year-old whale living in captivity in France. Wikie is an orca. Orcas are extremely smart, making them dangerous to their prey. Orcas…
2018-01-31 Sky Watchers Prepare For the ‘Super Bowl’ of Moons
This is What’s Trending Today. The moon is providing a rare triple treat this week. On Wednesday, much of the world will get to see not only a blue moon…
2018-01-30 A Mix of Politics and Music at the Grammys
This is What’s Trending today… Politics co-starred with music at the 60th Grammy awards Sunday night in New York City. Perhaps the most surprising non-artist to appear? Former Secretary of…
2018-01-23 South Korean Tennis Player Defeats His Idol, Novak Djokovic
This is What’s Trending today … Novak Djokovic of Serbia is one of the best tennis players in the world. He has won 68 professional ATP tennis tournaments including 12…
2018-01-19 Google’s Arts and Culture App Goes Viral
This is What’s Trending Today… Google’s Arts and Culture App has been available since 2016. But this past weekend, the app went viral. Its popularity rose after the company launched…
2018-01-12 YouTube Punishes Blogger After Video of Apparent Suicide Victim
This is What’s Trending Today… YouTube says it has punished an American blogger over a video that appeared to show the body of a suicide victim. The blogger, Logan Paul,…
2018-01-11 France’s Catherine Deneuve Criticizes #MeToo Movement
This is what’s trending today… Activists are denouncing French film star Catherine Deneuve and other women for an open letter they published this week in the newspaper Le Monde. The…
2018-01-10 Google Doodle Honors Indian American Scientist
This is What’s Trending Today…. Har Gobind Khorana was an Indian American biochemist. His research led to greater understanding of the makeup of human DNA. In 1968, he received the…
2018-01-09 Two Lottery Tickets Won $1 Billion over the Weekend
This is What’s Trending Today… It was a lucky weekend in the United States. A lottery ticket sold in the state of New Hampshire won a jackpot of $559.70 million…
2018-01-05 What Is a ‘Bomb Cyclone?’
This is What’s Trending Today… When it comes to weather, it is hard to sound more frightening than to call a storm a “bomb cyclone.” But that is how weather…