Rank | Article | Class | Views | image | Notes/About |
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1 | Rory McIlroy | ![]() | 2,917,887 | ![]() | On April 13, this Northern Irish golfer became the sixth golfer ever to achieve the career #13 by winning the 2025 Masters Tournament, after already emerging successful in the 2011 U.S. Open, 2012 and 2014 PGA Championship, and the 2014 Open Championship. |
2 | Sinners (2025 film) | ![]() | 1,406,940 | ![]() | Ryan Coogler writes and directs this movie where Michael B. Jordan (pictured) plays twins in the 1930s Mississippi Delta, whose opening of a juke joint is crashed by terrifying visitors. The atmosphere, cast and a sweet blues soundtrack win the viewer even before the plot changes halfway through (the trailers spoiled it, but for the uninformed it's the same thing done in From Dusk till Dawn), so reviews were glowing and Sinners topped the box office with $61 million worldwide. |
3 | Justin Rose | ![]() | 1,196,084 | ![]() | This English golfer led for the first two days of the Masters before falling behind six strokes behind #1 on day three. In the final round, he was able to make a resurgence and end the tournament tied for first. He ended up losing by one stroke in the sudden-death playoff, making Rose a three-time Masters runner-up. |
4 | Jaat (film) | ![]() | 1,177,898 | ![]() | Released on April 10, this Indian action film (featuring Regina Cassandra, pictured) has yet to recoup its ?100 crore budget. But it's getting there, and, with not many new releases happening for the rest of April, it should well surpass it. In other news, the film received some backlash on April 18 for its negative portrayal of Jesus in a church scene, with additional condemnation of releasing the film during Holy Week. The scene in question was subsequently removed from the film. |
5 | ChatGPT | ![]() | 1,135,784 | ![]() | Millions of people use this chatbot, and the CEO admitted that treating with the same politeness of a human spends a lot of energy. |
6 | WrestleMania 41 | ![]() | 1,059,902 | ![]() | Professional wrestling's annual "show of shows" began in Paradise, Nevada, with the first of two nights ending the week. The first match saw Jey Uso become the new WWE world heavyweight champion, and the night ended with Seth Rollins (pictured) winning a triple threat match with the help of his new manager Paul Heyman. The second night occurred on Sunday and is sure to be listed here. |
7 | Deaths in 2025 | ![]() | 986,210 | ![]() | From #2's soundtrack: "Sing with me for the dawn The long goodbye Beckons all..." |
8 | Deportation of Kilmar Abrego Garcia | ![]() | 980,982 | ![]() | Maryland father Kilmar Abrego Garcia is confined in a El Salvador prison, initially the notorious Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT) before being moved, traumatized, innocent, and illegally deported. Both U.S. president Donald Trump and #14 consider Abrego Garcia a "terrorist", despite evidence to the contrary, and have no intentions of bringing him back. Even more heartbreaking—the Trump administration was considering deporting "homegrown" Americans next—most, if not all, of whom have no connection to foreign terrorist gangs! What will happen next? Stay tuned... |
9 | A Minecraft Movie | ![]() | 940,771 | ![]() | Beware the chicken jockey. This highly-successful movie loosely based off a highly-successful video game is continuing to be highly successful, and inadvertently, highly dangerous. Certain moviegoers…um, overreacting…when Jack Black exclaims, "Chicken jockey!" have caused incidents of asphyxiation and injury. So please, please, please save the drama for the screen. |
10 | List of Black Mirror episodes | ![]() | 918,112 | ![]() | Series 7 of the anthology showing how technology brings up the worst in humanity came out on April 10 on Netflix. The episodes were a sequel to the Star Trek send-off, life support being worsened by greed, the Mandela Effect being real, a movie remake being derailed, a simulation game being a man's obsession, and a breakup being revisited through AI. |
11 | Natalia Grace | ![]() | 886,150 | ![]() | Good American Family continues to tell the story of this woman who had her adoptive family treat as a real life version of Orphan, claiming Grace had unsavory behavior and ultimately that she was an adult disguised as a child. |
12 | Good Friday | ![]() | 842,316 | A long time ago, Jesus was sold out to the authorities by one of his followers who he had just dined with, and the subsequent execution is the subject of this holiday. | |
13 | Grand Slam (golf) | ![]() | 793,020 | ![]() | A "grand slam" in professional golf is a term used when a player wins the sport's major championships. On April 13, #1 won his latest tournament to earn his career grand slam, putting him in the ranks with Bobby Jones, #21, Jack Nicklaus, Gary Player, Ben Hogan, and Gene Sarazen. |
14 | Nayib Bukele | ![]() | 771,356 | ![]() | The president of El Salvador, Bukele reached a deal with the United States to house several hundred alleged gang members in the Terrorism Confinement Center, commonly known as CECOT. One of those is Kilmar Abrego Garcia (#8), who has not been convicted of any crime in either the US or El Salvador, but nevertheless was accused of being a member of MS-13 and deported. Despite the U.S. Supreme Court finding unanimously that Abrego Garcia's deportation was illegal, Bukele maintained in a meeting with U.S. president Donald Trump on April 14 that Abrego Garcia was a "terrorist" and that he has no plans of returning Abrego Garcia back to the United States. |
15 | Good Bad Ugly | ![]() | 705,759 | ![]() | A-a-a-a-ah! (wah, wah, wah, wah!) OK, the highest-grossing Kollywood movie of the year has nothing to do with Clint Eastwood and Spaghetti westerns, but the title just asks for it. (and better not notice which three men in a conflict are depicted in the image to the left...) |
16 | Black Mirror | ![]() | 749,196 | ![]() | In 2009, Channel 4 broadcast something written by Charlie Brooker that revolved around the British Prime Minister being blackmailed into having sex with a pig. Somehow the show started by this revolting hour of TV still runs strong (#10), and people were reminded of its beginnings upon the reveal of a real incident involving a PM and a pig's head. |
17 | The Last of Us (TV series) | ![]() | 693,097 | ![]() | HBO's acclaimed adaptation of the post-apocalyptic video games returned. Its fans have manifested that annoying tendency of complaining that the actors aren't lookalikes for the game's characters, with the one for protagonist Bella Ramsey as Ellie which even caused the actor to deactivate social media being joined by Kaitlyn Dever not being as buff as Abby. |
18 | The Last of Us season 2 | ![]() | 673,132 | ||
19 | Bryson DeChambeau | ![]() | 652,234 | ![]() | This American golfer put up a strong performance at the Masters, staying in second place place for most of the tournament. He briefly took the lead early in the last round before falling back to end up tied for fifth. |
20 | List of Masters Tournament champions | ![]() | 639,492 | ![]() | #1 joined this list, which had 18 past winners in the 2025 edition. The second most titles, behind Jack Nicklaus with 6, are the 5 of... |
21 | Tiger Woods | ![]() | 516,064 | ![]() | One of golf's greatest players received renewed attention this week due to #1's completion of #13. Woods also completed #13 three times: in 2000, 2005, and 2008. |
22 | Kyren Lacy | ![]() | 489,239 | ![]() | This 24-year-old former college football player caused a fatal traffic collision in December and fled the scene without notifying authorities. He turned himself in on January 12 and was charged with negligent homicide, felony hit and run with death, and reckless operation of a vehicle. He paid US$151,000 bail and was released. He was scheduled for a grand jury hearing on April 14. Two days prior, he got into an argument with a relative, discharged a firearm into the ground, and fled the scene in a vehicle. The police chased him for several miles before he crashed. He was found dead from self-inflicted gunshot wounds determined to have been fired prior to the crash, as police camera footage showed no shots were fired upon their arrival on the scene. |
23 | Katy Perry | ![]() | 484,869 | ![]() | I kissed the sky and I liked it... Blue Origin NS-31 took 6 women on a sub-orbital spaceflight, including this pop singer who while experiencing low gravity showed the setlist for her upcoming The Lifetimes Tour. Unlike when Captain Kirk went to space, Perry's space tourism was widely mocked online. |
24 | Paddy Pimblett | ![]() | 481,878 | ![]() | Performance at the Night at UFC 314 went to this Englishman beating Michael Chandler and climbing further up the lightweight rankings. |
25 | Lauren Sánchez | ![]() | 463,135 | ![]() | Back to the Blue Origin's flight, another passenger was the fiancé of CEO Jeff Bezos, who has since last year grown closer to some guy who lives next to his Florida home and was the first article off this list. |