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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close September 22 – October 22, 2025 10181 stories · Vol. 25 · Catalogue 43 · Issue 295 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

College football assistant coach Shawn Clark dead at 50

At a lunch with GOP senators at the White House, President Trump stood firm in his demands that Democrats vote to end the government shutdown.

CBS · 5 sources

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What dominated October

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Top Stories

    Second Victim of Dallas ICE Shooting Dies

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

  2. Top Stories

    Chicagoans Resist I.C.E. Agents

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

  3. Top Stories

    Opinion | Another Attorney General Fires Motley Rice

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

Top Stories 535 stories

  1. State Department Revokes Visas Over Charlie Kirk Comments

    FOX · 5 outlets

    Turning Point USA spokesman Andrew Kolvet shared with Fox News that the organization's faith arm has grown exponentially in the wake of Charlie Kirk's assassination last month.

  2. Ex-Red Sox star Mike Greenwell dead at 62 after cancer battle

    NYT · 5 outlets

  3. James Comey Pleads Not Guilty to Charges of Lying to Congress

    CBS · 5 outlets

  4. Dallin H. Oaks Addresses Latter-day Saints General Conference

    NYT · 5 outlets

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  1. 10/2: CBS Evening News Plus

    NYT · 4 outlets

  2. Details on 7th U.S. strike against alleged drug boat

    ABC · 4 outlets

  3. Trump’s Favored Prosecutor Is Moving at Full Steam

    CBS · 4 outlets

  4. Second Victim of Dallas ICE Shooting Dies

    CBS · 5 outlets

  5. Opinion | Can Cuomo Beat Mamdani?

    CBS · 5 outlets

  6. Opinion | Trump’s Big Beautiful Gaza Peace Plan

    CBS · 4 outlets

  7. Chicagoans Resist I.C.E. Agents

    NYT · 5 outlets

  8. For Alaskan Evacuees, Home Is Gone, With No Return in Sight

    ABC · 3 outlets

Business 324 stories

  1. U.S. Futures Down; Dollar Rose as U.S.-China Tensions Ease

    WSJ · 3 outlets

    Investors are hopeful for a resolution to the U.S. government shutdown while an easing of concerns over U.S. credit conditions also helped lift the dollar.

  2. Dow Industrials Hit Record, Boosted by Strong Earnings

    WSJ · 3 outlets

  3. Silver Hits Historic $50 Mark as Investors Rush to Safety

    CNBC · 3 outlets

  4. Regional Bank Worries Weigh on Stocks

    MKTW · 3 outlets

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  1. ACA enhanced subsidy lapse could hit early retirees hardest amid shutdown fight

    WSJ · 3 outlets

  2. Health Care Roundup: Market Talk

    WSJ · 2 outlets

  3. Why Biotech’s Rally Can Last This Time

    CNBC · 3 outlets

  4. Market Call - BNN Bloomberg

    CNBC · 4 outlets

  5. Options Traders Bet on Weaker Sterling Ahead of U.K. Budget

    CNBC · 2 outlets

  6. How Jefferies Found Itself at the Center of First Brands’ Collapse

    WSJ · 1 outlets

  7. Berkshire Hathaway Near $10 Billion Deal for Occidental’s Petrochemical Unit

    CNBC · 3 outlets

  8. ‘I have no retirement savings’: My wife and I are in our 40s. She has an $85K Roth IRA. Is it too late for me?

    MKTW · 1 outlets

  9. Demand Surges for Private-Credit Secondaries Amid Market Volatility

    CNBC · 2 outlets

  10. Asia-Pacific markets mostly fall as investors assess Japan trade data; SoftBank drops over 5%

    CNBC · 1 outlets

Sports 408 stories

  1. AP Week 8 poll reaction: What's next for each Top 25 team

    ESPN · 3 outlets

  2. 🏈 College Football Power Rankings: Bama rises

    ESPN · 3 outlets

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  1. Former Arsenal academy player Billy Vigar dies at 21 after suffering 'significant brain injury'

    ESPN · 4 outlets

  2. Penn State loses interim's debut, 0-4 in Big Ten

    FOX · 3 outlets

  3. Agent: Hill's surgery went well, WR to play in '26

    PFT · 4 outlets

  4. Boyd, Cubs blank Brewers to force decisive G5

    FOX · 3 outlets

  5. 📈 CFB Power Rankings: Indiana climbs into top 3

    FOX · 3 outlets

  6. Jets owner Johnson defends Glenn, rips QB Fields

    ESPN · 4 outlets

Technology 229 stories

  1. Do iPhone 16 cases fit the iPhone 17?

    9to5 · 2 outlets

    Listen to a recap of the top stories of the day from 9to5Mac. 9to5Mac Daily is available on iTunes and Apple’s Podcasts app, Stitcher, TuneIn, Google Play, or through our dedicated RSS feed for Overc…

  2. Apple TV has one of its all-time best thrillers coming back soon

    9to5 · 2 outlets

  3. Quordle hints and answers for Saturday, October 18 (game #1363)

    TechRadar · 1 outlets

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  1. I spent two weeks with the Ninja Prestige DualBrew System, and espresso and drip coffee don't get easier than this

    TechRadar · 1 outlets

  2. Do you really own your website?

    9to5 · 3 outlets

  3. M5 MacBook Pro reviews: Great laptop, but what’s new?

    9to5 · 2 outlets

  4. Windows 11 KB5070773 emergency update fixes Windows Recovery issues

    Bleeping · 2 outlets

  5. Amazon AU's October Prime sale ends Monday, but I'd jump on these 7 bestsellers quick – they might not last

    TechRadar · 1 outlets

  6. iPadOS 26.1 beta 4 available now, here’s what to expect

    Bleeping · 3 outlets

  7. Morefine's H1 is the latest mini PC with an AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 and 128GB RAM - so I have to ask, why can't Dell launch something similar?

    TechRadar · 1 outlets

  8. Apple’s new M5 chip rivals M1 Ultra in early benchmarks

    TechRadar · 3 outlets

  9. What can I plug into my iPhone 17 USB-C port?

    TechRadar · 3 outlets

Entertainment 324 stories

  1. Taylor Swift Donates $100K to Young Girl With Brain Tumor

    BuzzFeed · 2 outlets

  2. Diane Keaton's Cause Of Death Has Been Revealed By Her Family

    USMag · 2 outlets

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  1. TLC's Baylen Dupree Addresses Pregnancy Rumors

    USMag · 2 outlets

  2. Are You More "SWAG" Or "SWAG II"?

    BuzzFeed · 1 outlets

  3. Influencer Estefania Restrepo Valencia Dies After Alleged Highway Robbery

    USMag · 1 outlets

  4. Taylor Swift Attends Selena Gomez’s Wedding to Benny Blanco

    USMag · 3 outlets

  5. Diane von Furstenberg Breaks Silence After Husband Comes Out as Gay

    USMag · 2 outlets

  6. Kevin Federline Claims Britney Spears Wished Sons Were 'Dead'

    BuzzFeed · 2 outlets

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