These are the top maybe-not headlines from the past 36-hours presented by The Conversation Project from raw engagement data from our social media to the headlines posted over the past day.
The 8 topics that our followers ranked as the most conversational are:
FASHION COMPANIES REACH LANDMARK SUSTAINABILITY ACCORD AHEAD OF G7 SUMMIT
Signed by 32 companies—including some of the biggest names in luxury, activewear, fast fashion, and retailing—the G7 Fashion Pact marks the first serious broad-based push by a coalition of private-sector companies to help reduce global warming, replenish the planet’s biodiversity, and curtail the dumping of plastics in the world’s oceans. At its current growth rate, textile and apparel production emissions will rise more than 60% by 2030, according to UN Climate Change.
[SOURCE: fortune.com]
HELICOPTER, SMALL PLANE CRASH IN SPAIN’S MALLORCA; 7 DEAD
The victims included three adults and two children on the helicopter and two local men on the light plane, the regional government of Spain’s Balearic islands, which include Mallorca, said in a tweet. Local media reported the helicopter was on a sightseeing tour. One of the helicopter victims was Italian, private Spanish news agency Europa Press said.
[SOURCE: apnews.com]
CONGRESSMAN SEAN DUFFY TO ‘STEP DOWN’ DUE TO BABY ‘COMPLICATIONS’
“After eight and a half years, the time has come for me to focus more on the reason we fight these battles — family,” Duffy wrote. “As you all know, raising a family is hard work. It’s especially true for one as large and busy as mine. Being away from home in Washington four days a week is challenging and for that reason, I have always been open to signs from God when it comes to balancing my desire to serve both my family and my country.”
[SOURCE: people.com]
CONNECTICUT MAN TESTED NEW GUNS BY FIRING THEM INTO A PARK FULL OF KIDS
Police in Stamford say 68-year-old James Denardo claimed he was “testing” to see if the firearms worked. It was around 6:30pm on Wednesday, August 21, when emergency dispatchers received reports of a man firing his guns from a parked car near Scalzi Park. Officers investigating the tip found veteran James Denardo sitting in his Cadillac at the intersection of Fourth Street and Washington Boulevard. They approached him with their guns drawn, ordering him to keep his hands in the air. When they reached the car, they found Denardo had a two-shot derringer pistol in his lap.
[SOURCE: newsweek.com]
A SHEET OF VOLCANIC ROCK THE SIZE OF MANHATTAN IS FLOATING TOWARD AUSTRALIA
The “raft” was captured by NASA Earth Observatory days after an underwater volcano 130 feet down may have erupted near the island of Tonga. The resulting raft of pumice rock is the size of Manhattan and is floating toward Australia, NASA said. Days later, an Australian couple sailing to Vanatu on a catamaran encountered the raft. The sheer volume of the mass, made up of “pumice stones from marble to basketball size,” blocked their ship.
[SOURCE: yahoo.com]
UBER DRIVER ACCUSED OF KIDNAPPING TEEN AFTER SWEET 16 PARTY
Sean Williams, 32, was arraigned Tuesday and charged for the July incident where he picked the minor up around 11:15 pm on Long Island and attempted to convince her to drink with him, according to the Nassau County District Attorney’s office. When the girl protested and asked to go home, repeatedly saying she was only 15, Williams apparently drove in the wrong direction towards his home — where the DA says he planned to sexually assault her.
[SOURCE: nbcnews.com]
KANYE WEST DELIVERS SUNDAY SERVICE IN DAYTON, SITE OF MASS SHOOTING
Kanye West is in Dayton, Ohio right now, presiding over his Sunday Service to honor those who died and were injured during the mass shooting earlier this month. The service is going down at the RiverScape MetoPark to a large crowd. Kim Kardashian and at least 2 of their kids — Saint and North West — are on hand for the event. They were all dressed in white as they headed to the service. We don’t know if Chicago made the trip. We’re told Dave Chappelle and Chris Rock are also in attendance.
[SOURCE: tmz.com]
‘GOOD MORNING AMERICA’ HOST LARA SPENCER SLAMMED BY GENE KELLY’S WIDOW FOR MOCKING BALLET
Patricia Ward Kelly responded in an open letter after Spencer, the Good Morning America host, mocked young Prince George over his ballet lessons, holding back laughter at the prospect of the six-year-old dancing. “In 1958, my late husband, the dancer, director, choreographer Gene Kelly, decided to take on the stigma facing male dancers in an Omnibus television program for NBC that he created and starred in called Dancing, A Man’s Game,” wrote Ward Kelly. “Gene would be devastated to know that 61 years after his ground-breaking work, the issue of boys and men dancing is still the subject of ridicule—and on a national network,.” She concluded: “ABC must do better.”
[SOURCE: deadline.com]
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