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 After a bruising election campaign that took a good part of two years, America deserved a rest. The country didn’t get one, unless you count the government shutdown — which almost made the year’s ranking of the most-searched news stories on Yahoo. What did make our annual list reminds us…

Video “omg! Insider” is counting down the top-searched obsessions of 2013 according to Yahoo!’s Year-In-Review Report. Number 4 on the list is “Fifty Shades of Grey,” followed by “The Walking Dead at number 3 and “Breaking Bad” at number 2. So what obsession ranked number 1 on the list? Check…

The year’s buzziest discoveries and hoaxes With the world’s knowledge at people’s beck and call, you’d think monsters and mermaids wouldn’t have much sway in the public imagination. Time and again, though, searches reveal people ardently seek out the mysteries of our universe and don’t always draw the line between…

How do you measure obsession? At Yahoo, we look at concepts that not only had big search averages, but accelerated fast up the search charts. In years past, we’ve had contentious figures (Tiger Mom), dance crazes (Gangnam Style) and the weirdly inexplicable (planking). How does 2013 measure up? Scroll down…

In today’s tech-drenched world of tweets, likes, upvotes and shares, a funny picture, meme or photobomb can go viral faster and further than ever before. Even so, it still takes a certain ‘it’ factor to make an impression and pique our human interest enough for us to hit the share…

Courtroom junkies, 2013 was your year. High-profile cases stuffed dockets across the country and around the world. There were trials that tested Americans’ morals and values, judgments that ended political careers and celebrity cases that provided fodder for tabloids. FILE – This June 26, 2013 file photo shows Sandy Stier,…

We here at Yahoo like making lists out of chaos. As 2013 closes out, we’re back with Top 10 rankings ofsearches, news, obsessions and more. But sometimes, what doesn’t make a Top 10 list can be as intriguing as the frontrunners. Part of this might be that 2013 wasn’t meant…