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| 1 | ChatGPT |  |
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So, this is here again. It's the sixth time this chatbot tops this list, tying with the Ebola virus and standing behind only a goddamned pandemic and a goddamned politician as the articles with the most #1 appearances. And it's not a case like YouTube getting more pageviews out of nowhere, ChatGPT is popular and on the news and thus the traffic is valid. But the specific reason for the views boost is unclear. Is it the new Record mode for meetings? Is it the bot cheating to not be turned off? The arrival of competitor Claude 4? |
| 2 | Jonathan Joss |  |
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In one of the most bizarre yet sad events of the year, this Native American actor was shot and killed on June 1. In January, Joss, best known for voicing the King of the Hill character John Redcorn, lost his San Antonio home in a fire for reasons unknown. This week, he and his husband returned to collect the mail and survey the damage, when Joss and a neighbor resumed a year-long feud, resulting in the neighbor shooting and killing Joss. His husband called the feud a homophobic hate crime, despite the SAPD refusing to acknowledge it as such. |
| 3 | List of Indian Premier League seasons and results |  |
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India's top cricket league was formed in 2008, and the 2025 edition came down to two teams seeking their first title, ultimately ending with the Royal Challengers Bengaluru beating the Punjab Kings. The tournament's biggest winner Chennai Super Kings (5 championships in 18 editions) ended this year's edition in last place! |
| 4 | Deaths in 2025 | |
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I don't wanna die But I ain't keen on living either... |
| 5 | Sinners (2025 film) | |
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While still in the box office top 10 two months after release, having passed $350 million worldwide, the supernatural horror period piece has become available for digital rental and download, and quickly shot up to the charts of services like Prime Video, Fandango at Home and iTunes Store. An HBO Max inclusion is also expected at some point. |
| 6 | Coco Gauff | |
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An American tennis player who was the highest-paid sportswoman of 2024, and one year after being doubles champion at the French Open got the singles title against #8, only her second Grand Slam trophy. |
| 7 | Ballerina (2025 film) |  |
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Technically the full name is From the World of John Wick: Ballerina, showing this is set in a world where seemingly every corner has someone involved with an assassin society. Ana de Armas already showed she could beat up men as a Bond girl in No Time to Die, and now gets a whole movie of her slaughtering males (and even a few females) as an orphan raised to be both a ballerina and a contract killer. Having a winning formula of this popular leading lady, stylized violence, and avoiding the meandering plot that made John Wick: Chapter 4 overlong, Ballerina got positive reviews and opened to $50 million worldwide, not enough to overcome the family-friendly blockbuster currently dominating theaters but covering half the movie's budget. |
| 8 | Aryna Sabalenka |  |
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Back to Stade Roland Garros, the current tennis #1 who plays for no flag due to her country's involvement in a terrible thing that doesn't end, and for the second time this year reached a Grand Slam final only to be defeated by an American (#6). Sabalenka certainly hopes this won't happen a third time at Wimbledon. |
| 9 | Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning | |
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Ethan Hunt, a secret agent whose pechant for jumping, hanging, diving, and driving dangerously borders on a death wish, finishes off his fight against a rogue artificial intelligence that started in 2023's Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning and in a way revisits all the eight installments of the franchise. While Tom Cruise beat Lilo & Stitch with Minority Report this time he's lagging behind the remake, but still with great earnings of over $450 million! |
| 10 | Dept. Q | |
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On May 29, this Scottish crime thriller series, based on the books by Jussi Adler-Olsen (pictured), was released on Netflix. The series stars Matthew Goode as a detective investigating a cold case. |
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| 1 | Brian Wilson | |
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The main composer for The Beach Boys fit the cliché of a "troubled genius", as along with writing immortal tracks such as "California Girls", "Wouldn't It Be Nice", "God Only Knows" and "Good Vibrations" he struggled with mental illness in a way that ultimately led to the cancellation of the album Smile (later released in truncated, re-recorded and unedited versions) and an unlikely partnership with his psychologist Eugene Landy, something even documented in the movie Love & Mercy and the Barenaked Ladies song "Brian Wilson". Wilson retired from touring in 2022 and has now died a few days prior to his 83rd birthday, with former bandmate Al Jardine noting he had been struggling with the long effects of the COVID-19 caught during his last concerts. Wilson is survived by his first wife Marilyn Wilson-Rutherford and their daughters Carnie and Wendy Wilson (themselves successful musicians on the trio Wilson Phillips) and grandchildren, along with five adopted children from his second marriage. |
| 2 | ChatGPT | |
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ChatGPT continues to have a presence on this list, predominantly as a consequence of being one of the most visited websites world wide. |
| 3 | Air India Flight 171 | |
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On June 12, this scheduled flight from Ahmedabad, India to London, United Kingdom, operated using a Boeing 787 Dreamliner, crashed into the hostel block of B. J. Medical College, less than a minute after takeoff. At the time of writing, the total number of fatalities stood at 279, 241 from the plane (out of 242 passengers and crew) and 38 on the ground. One passenger who did not survive was Vijay Rupani (#8), who served as the Chief Minister of Gujarat from 2016 to 2021. At least 61 people were injured, one sole survivor on the plane and 60 on the ground. |
| 4 | Jannik Sinner | |
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The 2025 French Open came down to the top 2 of the ATP rankings, Jannik Sinner attempting his first championship at Stade Roland Garros and Carlos Alcaraz defending his title. In a final for the ages lasting 5 hours and 29 minutes (only 24 minutes shorter than the record-holding Grand Slam final), Alcaraz came down from losing 2-0 and saved three consecutive championship points to again triumph in Paris. |
| 5 | Carlos Alcaraz | |
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| 6 | Melissa Hortman | |
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On June 14, Hortman, a member of the Minnesota House of Representatives for the Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party (DFL), was shot and killed along with her husband in their home. John Hoffman, a DFL senator in the Minnesota Senate, and his wife were also shot in a separate but related accident, but survived. According to the FBI, the suspect in the shootings impersonated a police officer, and at the time of the writing is still at large. According to investigators, the suspect had a manifesto and a list of 70 targets, including prominent Democrats such as Tim Walz, governor of Minnesota and vice-president candidate in the 2024 United States presidential election; Ilhan Omar, a member of the United States House of Representatives; Tina Smith, senator for Minnesota; and Keith Ellison, Attorney General of Minnesota. Other targets on the list included abortion-rights advocates and abortion providers. |
| 7 | Straw (film) | |
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Tyler Perry continues making thrillers starring black women on streaming, this time a Netflix production where Taraji P. Henson is a single mom having her own Falling Down-like day of fury. |
| 8 | Vijay Rupani | |
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The Chief Minister of Gujarat from 2016 to 2021, he died in #3. |
| 9 | Housefull 5 | |
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The latest film to come from Indian cinema. This murder mystery film has two different endings depending on the version you happen to be watching. The killer remains the same, but the mastermind is different. |
| 10 | Deaths in 2025 | |
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For #1: The glass was raised, the fired rose The fullness of the wine, the dim last toasting While at port, adieu or die A choke of grief, heart hardened, I Beyond belief, a broken man, too tough to cry... |
| Rank | Article | Class | Views | Image | Notes/about |
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| 1 | Juneteenth |
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The U.S. nearly has a federal holiday every calendar month. This one, combining "June" and "nineteenth", commemorates Texas abolishing slavery on June 19, 1865 (announced by major general Gordon Granger, pictured). While Texas and other states honored the day locally, it was made a national holiday in 2021. |
| 2 | Anne Burrell |
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This popular TV chef was found unresponsive in her apartment on June 17. While first responders believed her death to be from cardiac arrest, officials are investigating a possible drug overdose, as numerous pills were also found nearby. |
| 3 | Iran–Israel war |
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This conflict began on June 13 when Israel launched surprise strikes against Iranian (#7) military and nuclear facilities, killing several top military officials and nuclear scientists. Iran and its Houthis ally have retaliated by launching missiles against Israel. The war saw a significant escalation on June 22, when the United States attacked several Iranian nuclear facilities. |
| 4 | 28 Years Later |
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After years in development hell, the third post-apocalyptic horror film in the series that began in 2002 with #18 finally got its premiere on June 20, receiving positive reviews and having a strong opening that beat Pixar's latest movie and stood only a few million behind a family-friendly remake. Sony Pictures was given distribution rights under the proviso of future sequels, and wasted no time in making a fourth film, filmed immediately after this one and set for release in January. |
| 5 | Ali Khamenei |
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The current supreme leader of Iran, he succeeded #15 in 1989. While he has issued a fatwa against the acquisition, development and use of nuclear weapons, he has also called for the destruction of Israel and supported the Axis of Resistance, a coalition of militant and political organizations involved in the Iran–Israel proxy conflict. |
| 6 | J. J. Spaun |
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This American golfer vaulted into the Top 10 world ranking by winning the U.S. Open on June 15. |
| 7 | Iran |
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The ever-controversial Islamic Republic that was once known as Persia. Its antagonistic relationship towards Israel already led to rockets and bombings last year, and this time it got worse (#3). |
| 8 | 2025 FIFA Club World Cup |
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Amidst all the controversy regarding immigrants and travel bans, the United States received 29 clubs from all over the world of the sport they call "soccer". Temperatures are high, some games are barely attended, but there are fun moments, mostly regarding the European teams that were supposedly unbeatable failing to break ties if not downright losing (to Brazilian teams, making the sad state of the national squad all the more embarrassing). |
| 9 | Deaths in 2025 |
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When darkness falls, may it be That we should see the light When reaper calls, may it be That we walk straight and right... |
| 10 | Melissa Hortman |
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The suspect who shot Hortman and her husband dead, and wounded John Hoffman and his wife, was captured on June 15. |
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| 1 | Zohran Mamdani | |
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In the Democratic mayoral primary on June 24, this Uganda-born American defeated ten candidates to become the Democratic nominee for mayor of New York City. |
| 2 | Northrop B-2 Spirit | |
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On June 22, the U.S. carried out strikes in Iran. Six B-2As dropped 12 GBU-57 "bunker buster" bombs onto Fordow Fuel Enrichment Plant, and a seventh dropped two more GBU-57s onto the Natanz Nuclear Facility. |
| 3 | Lauren Sánchez | |
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This journalist married Jeff Bezos on June 27 (both are to the right of Boris Johnson in the adjacent image), with the day before and after holding various parties. Given her husband is the third richest person in the world, the wedding downright has an article here, being held in various historical sites of Venice and with a notable list of guests that included Bill Gates, Leonardo DiCaprio, Katy Perry and Ivanka Trump. |
| 4 | 28 Years Later | |
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After 2007's 28 Weeks Later didn't have the original director Danny Boyle and writer Alex Garland, both have returned to part 3 of the zombie apocalypse series, featuring a group going to the United Kingdom where the rage virus started and discovering whatever horror emerged from decades of mutations. Reviews were positive, the movie has already passed $100 million worldwide and covered its $60 million budget, and given it was shot back-to-back with part 4, 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple will continue the story in January. |
| 5 | Iran–Israel war | |
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Thankfully for everyone who feared this could kick off World War III, both countries agreed to a ceasefire after 12 days of mutual bombings on June 24. |
| 6 | Shefali Jariwala | |
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An Indian actress and model known for her work in multiple music videos and reality shows, and died fairly young at 42 following a sudden fall in blood pressure. |
| 7 | Squid Game season 3 | |
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Netflix returned to the South Korean show about people down in their luck going through deadly versions of children's games for money. Season 3 is basically the second part of season 2, following what happened after the unsuccessful rebellion led by returning winner Seong Gi-hun, while also showing one of the guards overseeing the games trying to take one of the players back to his sick daughter, and the brother of the games' organizer trying to locate the island where the games happen. Given it's the show's final season, a few viewers were disappointed, particularly as the final scene is basically a tease for an upcoming spin-off series set in the United States. |
| 8 | Mira Nair | |
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#1's mother is an Indian filmmaker, who even had an Oscar nomination for Salaam Bombay! and a Golden Lion for Monsoon Wedding. |
| 9 | GBU-57A/B MOP | |
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#2 dropped 14 of those "Bunker Buster" bombs in the United States strikes on Iranian nuclear sites that happened in support of #5. |
| 10 | Sitaare Zameen Par | |
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The 2018 Spanish movie Champions, about a suspended basketball coach forced to manage a team of people with disabilities as community service, already had a Hollywood remake, and now it's time for Bollywood to explore the same story. |
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| 1 | Diogo Jota | |
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Portuguese footballer Diogo José Teixeira da Silva (hence the nickname Diogo J. - pronounced Jota in Portuguese) had already helped Wolverhampton Wanderers return to the Premier League and his national team win the UEFA Nations League when in 2020 he joined Liverpool FC, with whom he won the FA Cup and EFL Cup. Jota was having a great 2025, winning the Premier League with the Reds and a second Nations League title with Portugal, and also married his high school sweetheart with whom he had three children. Due to a lung surgery, he was advised not to fly back to England, so Jota and his brother André Silva left the hospital in Porto in a Lamborghini Huracán to drive all the way to Port of Santander in Spain and take a ferry. Sadly, on the way there they blew a tyre on a Spanish highway, the car veered off the road and caught fire, killing both men. The football world mourned losing a talented player at just 28 and at the height of his career, leading to hundreds attending Jota's funeral in the small city of Gondomar, where he started his career, and many tributes, including by Oasis in the opening concert of their reunion tour and Nuno Bettencourt in the Black Sabbath farewell concert. |
| 2 | Michael Madsen | |
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Two actors died this week. Michael Madsen passed at 67 of cardiac arrest, made his name with tough guy roles in movies such as Reservoir Dogs, Species and Donnie Brasco, and had his sister Virginia Madsen follow him to Hollywood. Julian McMahon died at 56 of cancer, went to the United States after some works in his native Australia, and along with many TV roles in shows like Charmed and Nip/Tuck, played Doctor Doom in Fantastic Four and its sequel (ironically in the same month of a new Fantastic Four that won't feature Doom, who has been promoted to Avengers villain). |
| 3 | Julian McMahon | |
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| 4 | Jurassic World Rebirth | |
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The Jurassic Park sequels are mostly derided but made lots of money, so those dinosaurs can't remain extinct. In a new take directed by Gareth Edwards and written by the same David Koepp who made the screenplays for the Spielberg-directed first two movies, a new abandoned island where InGen bred dinosaurs was discovered, and Scarlett Johansson and Mahershala Ali are mercenaries helping scientists visit it to get blood samples from the dinos for pharmaceutical research. Rebirth earned mixed to positive reviews given that as uninspired as the script was, it was less convoluted than Jurassic World Dominion and provided plenty of scenes of people chased and/or attacked by dinosaurs. The film also earned $318 million worldwide in a single weekend, raising the possibility of following the preceding Jurassic World trilogy in making over a billion dollars! |
| 5 | Squid Game season 3 | |
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The third and final season of this South Korean television series is the biggest-ever television launch for Netflix, getting more than 60.1 million views in the first three days. Critical reviews have been generally positive. While its creator and director Hwang Dong-hyuk has said there is no official decision on a remake, there are rumors that David Fincher is developing an English-language version. The last scene in the final episode, in which a well-known Hollywood actor cameos in, does little to dissuade the possibility as well. |
| 6 | Zohran Mamdani | |
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Mamdani is the Democratic Party's nominee for the 2025 New York City mayoral election, having defeated ten other candidates, including former governor of New York Andrew Cuomo in an upset. Mamdani's platform includes free public buses, public childcare, public grocery stores, rent freezes, additional affordable housing, police reform, and a $30 minimum wage by 2030. He also called for tax increases on corporations and those earning more than $1 million annually, and criticized Israel's treatment of Palestinians. Mamdani has already attracted the attention of MAGA politicians and influencers, who have attacked him using Islamophobic, racist and xenophobic language, with some even calling for his deportation. |
| 7 | F1 (film) | |
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Brad Pitt plays a veteran racecar driver hired by a flailing Formula One team to salvage their season, in an expensive Apple Studios production featuring director Joseph Kosinski dealing with fast vehicles for the third time (Tron: Legacy had digital motorcycles and Top Gun: Maverick, fighter jets). Reviewers liked the combination of thrilling races (with even a few crashes along the way) and compelling character arcs and the movie sped to the top of the weekend box office, with $57 million in North America (where F1 has never been so popular in the United States compared to NASCAR or IndyCar) and $85 million elsewhere, and by its second week F1 had both surpassed Napoleon as the highest-grossing Apple Original Film and the $300 million mark. |
| 8 | Lauren Sánchez | |
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This media personality married Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos in a lavish three-day event in Venice from June 26 to 28, with an impressive guest list to boot. Local officials praised the event for bringing an estimate $1.1 billion boost to the region, but environmentalists complained on the impact of 90 private jets arriving. |
| 9 | One Big Beautiful Bill Act | |
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This long-awaited megabill inevitably passed the House and was signed by President Donald Trump on July 4. Despite widespread criticism, Trump claimed it was the "most popular bill ever signed". The act extends the tax cuts that Trump set in his first term and does much, much more to benefit the wealthy while stripping millions of Americans of benefits from services like Medicare and Social Security. |
| 10 | Deaths in 2025 | |
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Lookin' for some happiness But there is only loneliness to find Jump to the left, turn to the right Lookin' upstairs, lookin' behind |
For the May 30 – June 30 period, per this database report.
| Title | Revisions | Notes |
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| List of people named Peter | 4150 | Mostly an IP, with occasional appearances by an user, adding to this list with names all the way back to Saint Peter. |
| Iran–Israel war | 3223[1] | Even if Hamas is still keeping over 50 people hostage, everyone is tired of the endless suffering of the Gaza war. And the Israeli government still decided to extend to other countries, with a brief conflict in Lebanon before going all-in against Iran, with the United States even helping by bombarding Iranian nuclear sites, before a ceasefire was called after 12 days. Over 900 people were killed and thousands were wounded, and lots of aircraft, missiles and buildings were destroyed. |
| Air India Flight 171 | 2806 | A plane crash that happened in Ahmedabad with over 200 fatalities, marking the first hull loss accident for the Boeing 787 Dreamliner and the eleventh fatal plane crash for Air India, the last happening in 1985 as Air India Flight 182 was blown up by terrorists. |
| June 2025 Israeli strikes on Iran | 2424[2] | The war above was kicked off by Israel doing surprise attacks on key Iranian military and nuclear facilities on June 13. |
| Deaths in 2025 | 2068 | Along with the people listed above, other deceased of the period include Ananda Lewis, Sly Stone, Bobby Sherman, Lalo Schifrin, and Jim Shooter. |
| June 2025 Los Angeles protests | 2020 | All the controversial acts of Trump's presidency are bringing his opposition together. On June 6, 2025, protests began in Los Angeles after ICE agents raided several city locations to arrest individuals allegedly involved in illegal immigration, prompting some riots and even Trump's response of nationalizing the California National Guard and calling for thousands of guard members to deploy against the protesters. Hence one week later, on June 14, L.A. was one of thousands of cities engaged in the "No Kings protests", so named because Trump has called himself a king on occasion – and given these ones weren't restricted to the U.S. and extended to countries with actual kings, there they were called "No Dictators" or "No Tyrants". |
| No Kings protests | 1337 | |
| 2025 shootings of Minnesota legislators | 1140 | As mentioned above, John Hoffman and his wife were injured by a man claiming to be a police officer, the guy went to the house of two other politicians only to find them empty, and then after a brief shootout with the cops broke into the home of Melissa Hortman and killed both her and her husband. The perpetrator, Vance Luther Boelter, was arrested the following day. |
| Timeline of the Gaza war (16 May 2025 – present) | 1137 | Even if it was better to see this end, instead Israel has renewed its offensive on the Gaza strip, and even the country's allies condemned their actions that included targetting aid workers and schools. |
| 2025 New York City Democratic mayoral primary | 1037 | Polls have started for New York's election in November. Incumbent mayor Eric Adams left the Democrats to run as independent, and the 384,251 people voting in the primary chose State Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani as their candidate. |
| Zohran Mamdani | 1006 | |
| Legalism (Chinese philosophy) | 966 | Been a while since we've seen the work of FourLights here! |
| Thug Life (2025 film) | 880 | From Kollywood comes this gangster action drama reuniting director Mani Ratnam and actor Kamal Haasan after nearly 40 years, earning negative reviews and low box office compared to an elevated budget. |
| Timeline of science fiction | 878 | A user who made Good Articles out of many "(celestial body) in fiction" articles is now going for the genre as a whole. |
| James Cook | 873 | A Good Article was achieved out of the Royal Navy officer, explorer, and cartographer who in the 18th century mapped coastlines, islands, and features across the Pacific from Hawaii to Australia. |
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