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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close August 11 – August 18, 2025 2153 stories · Vol. 25 · Catalogue 34 · Issue 230 Get it by email ↓
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Opinion | Napoleon’s Lessons for Trump

The papers, laying out the sequence of events and including the phone numbers of several officials, were found around 9 a.m. on Friday and sent to NPR by a guest of the hotel.

NYT · 5 sources

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Top Stories 339 stories

  1. Opinion | The Risk of Reconciliation Bill 2.0

    FOX · 5 outlets

  2. Trial over California National Guard deployment concludes

    CBS · 5 outlets

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  1. U.S. Marshals Service director lays out strategy for Washington, D.C., crime crackdown

    FOX · 2 outlets

  2. Pence Welcomes Trump’s D.C. Deployment of the National Guard

    NYT · 3 outlets

  3. 8/14: CBS Evening News Plus

    NYT · 3 outlets

Business 178 stories

  1. Are You a Stock Market Genius? Take Our Quiz.

    WSJ · 3 outlets

    Earnings are due from big-box retailers this week, followed by the Jackson Hole gathering of central bankers

  2. What is the worst financial decision you’ve ever made?

    CNBC · 3 outlets

  3. CoreWeave’s mixed earnings fail to wow AI bulls, and the stock falls

    WSJ · 3 outlets

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  1. Zelenskyy to meet with Trump after Putin talks end without a ceasefire

    CNBC · 2 outlets

  2. Private Equity’s Big Fish See Deals Machinery Gearing Up

    WSJ · 2 outlets

  3. Intel has 18 months to determine its future — or Qualcomm and Arm will

    MKTW · 2 outlets

  4. Asia-Pacific markets trade mixed as investors bet on Fed rate cut

    CNBC · 1 outlets

Sports 281 stories

  1. Case Keenum is day-to-day with a leg injury

    ESPN · 4 outlets

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  1. Gruden eager to find 'truth' in NFL emails case

    ESPN · 3 outlets

  2. Rooney: Brady work ethic criticism was 'unfair'

    ESPN · 2 outlets

  3. In His Own Words: Alex Palou On What Each Win Meant In Title Run

    ESPN · 3 outlets

Technology 186 stories

  1. iOS 26 tweaks iPhone Always On Display in a way you might not like

    9to5 · 1 outlets

  2. Is now a good time to buy an Apple Watch?

    9to5 · 2 outlets

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  1. If Google wants the Pixel 10 to beat the iPhone 17, I think it should bring back its best-ever feature

    TechRadar · 1 outlets

  2. New Mac Pro could boast M4 Ultra chip, per report

    9to5 · 3 outlets

  3. GPT-5 brings big improvements to Mac vibe coding

    Bleeping · 3 outlets

  4. Apple releases visionOS 26 developer beta 6

    9to5 · 2 outlets

  5. Apple TV+ has two of its best reviewed shows of the year airing now

    9to5 · 1 outlets

Entertainment 152 stories

  1. Taylor Swift and Zoe Kravitz's Friendship Timeline: Everything to Know

    USMag · 2 outlets

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  1. Brandon Blackstock's Death Certificate Reveals He Suffered Seizures

    USMag · 2 outlets

  2. What's In Store for Halle Berry and More Famous Leos This Year?

    USMag · 2 outlets

  3. Everything to Know About Sean Kingston's Fraud Scheme

    USMag · 2 outlets

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