The Weekly Wrap Up For August 19, 2023

This Week’s Most (And Least) Engaged Headlines

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Top Ten Most Engaged News Headlines (Per Engagement Data)

 1-Rays’ Facing Disturbing Allegations Involving Minor

   (Monday        – 8/14/2023)

 2-Mackenzie Shirilla convicted of murdering Russo and Flanagan

   (Tuesday – 8/15/2023)

 3-Failed communication and huge death toll in Maui fires         

   (Friday – 8/11/2023)

 4-Hilary may become 1st tropical storm to make landfall in California in 84 years  

   (Thursday – 8/17/2023)

 5-AMPTP Makes Counterproposal To WGA; Negotiations Recess But Will Resume Next Week  

   (Sunday – 8/13/2023)

 6-Arkansas schools defy Sarah Huckabee Sanders to offer African-American Studies 

   (Thursday – 8/17/2023)

 7-North Korea says Travis King wants refuge from racism, mistreatment in US Army 

   (Tuesday – 8/15/2023)

 8-Montgomery police have arrested Reggie Gray, the man accused of wielding a folding chair as a weapon during the riverfront brawl

   (Friday – 8/11/2023)

 9-Britney Spears and Husband Sam Asghari Split, Heading for Divorce 

   (Wednesday – 8/16/2023)

 10-‘Barbie’ Box Office: Greta Gerwig Becomes Highest-Grossing Female Director of All Time Domestically, Beating ‘Frozen II’    

   (Friday – 8/11/2023)

Almost-Ran Headlines (Ranking 11 – 15)

 11-Ammon Bundy arrested at high school football fundraiser     

   (Saturday – 8/12/2023)

 12-Miss Universe Indonesia contestants asked to strip for ‘body checks’

   (Sunday – 8/13/2023)

 13-A United Airlines pilot on vacation in Hawaii volunteered to fly a plane from Maui to mainland US to help 330 people escape the fire 

   (Tuesday – 8/15/2023)

 14-Tom Jones Dies: Wrote Book And Lyrics For Long-Running ‘The Fantasticks’, Was 95  

   (Saturday – 8/12/2023)

 15-Alex Collins, former NFL running back and Arkansas standout, dies at 28  

   (Tuesday 8/15/2023)

And The Almost-Irrelevant Story Of the Week

218-US appeals court backs abortion pill restrictions; Supreme Court appeal planned  

   (Wednesday – 8/16/2023)

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