TOP CLICKS: The week that was in viral stories

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The Toronto Sun takes you straight to the heart of the action.

Whether it’s local news, provincial and national politics, or the worlds of celebrity and sports, we have you covered.

Some stories set the world on fire. And these ones are the most popular online stories from the past seven days, clicked on by Sun readers like you.

Here are our top stories:

Pro athlete allegedly stopped Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs from sexually assaulting man at celeb-filled party

Not a day goes by that a new headline about Sean “Diddy” Combs’ alleged sex assaults doesn’t surface, and this week was no different.

The big news? A professional athlete reportedly stopped the rapper from sexually assaulting a man at one of his celeb-filled parties in 2022.

The plaintiff claimed in a lawsuit that Combs groped him and the attack only came to a halt because an unnamed sports star intervened, Mark Daniell reported.

There was grabbing and squeezing, according to the suit from the man who was “shocked and disoriented” and “frozen momentarily” from the incident, which ended after “Professional Athlete A” stopped the attack.

Just another drop in the dirty bucket. Until the next accuser emerges…

LILLEY: Trudeau wounded by coup attempt, still can’t run government

There was a lot of hope from many Canadians that a revolt from some unnamed members of the Liberal Party might mean the end of Justin Trudeau’s run as leader.

But nothing significant happened inside a closed-door Liberal caucus meeting, and it showed during the start of Wednesday’s question period when Trudeau received a huge round of applause.

The Prime Minister proceeded to thank his Party for their “rousing show of confidence” — even though everyone knows there was more than a little drama over the last couple of weeks as some Liberals joined the Opposition and questioned his leadership.

That said, Trudeau may have survived the coup attempt by a group of Liberal MPs, but he and his Party are wounded, Brian Lilley reported.

Those rebel Liberal MPs, however, badly miscalculated, and Trudeau won’t be stepping down on his own volition. If anything, all they did was make it impossible for him to leave in the short-term, meaning Canadians will have to wait to do the work themselves with how they vote in next year’s election.

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KINSELLA: Time for Justin Trudeau to walk away – he’ll be happier, so will we

One of Warren Kinsella’s columns last week was a letter to the Prime Minister, from Canadians, essentially telling him to kick rocks.

He details the unhappiness of members of Trudeau’s caucus and the poor poll numbers.

He even tried a kinder and gentler approach to urge him to bow down while still holding his head high, and to go down being remembered as a winner, not a loser, in an ending where everyone wins.

But we all know this letter would be returned to sender before it was even read.

LILLEY: Desperate Trudeau looking to prorogue as MPs demand he resign?

There was speculation last week that ahead of Trudeau facing a caucus meeting where some Liberal MPs would demand he step down that the PM would do something dramatic such as cutting immigration rates dramatically or even shut down the sitting of the Commons to avoid further drama, Brian Lilley reported.

We now know he did do one of those things — Trudeau announced a massive drop in immigration targets to pause population growth as housing and affordability remain top issues, and stumbling blocks, for the Trudeau Liberals.

Naturally, Trudeau didn’t take any responsibility and, in fact, blamed companies for hiring foreign workers ahead of qualified Canadians post-pandemic, and accused the provinces of allowing post-secondary institutions to overload communities with international students.

WARMINGTON: Husband gunned down in his home 13 years after wife disappears

It’s the kind of mystery one might find in a true crime documentary: A wife vanished from a Mississauga home in 2011. Now, 13 later, her husband is shot to death in a strange home invasion.

Joe Warmington learned that while Peel Regional Police search for the killer of Wei Ruo Zhao, Fang Lin remains missing to this day.

Cops confirmed a connection between the two cases but nothing more, leaving the family appealing to the public on helping whoever is responsible to justice.