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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close September 21 – October 21, 2025 10094 stories · Vol. 25 · Catalogue 43 · Issue 294 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Otto Obermaier, Who Succeeded Giuliani as U.S. Attorney, Dies at 89

The government shutdown extended into Day 20 on Monday as the Senate failed to advance a House-passed measure to end the impasse for an 11th time.

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 | The Embarrassing Pete Hegseth

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

Top Stories 574 stories

  1. State Department Revokes Visas Over Charlie Kirk Comments

    FOX · 5 outlets

    William Loggans filed a grievance against the Orange County School District for political discrimination after being ordered to remove a Charlie Kirk poster from his classroom.

  2. College football assistant coach Shawn Clark dead at 50

    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. Over 73,000 come to remember Charlie Kirk

    FOX · 3 outlets

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

    CBS · 4 outlets

  8. Chicagoans Resist I.C.E. Agents

    NYT · 5 outlets

Business 408 stories

  1. Rate Cuts Might Not Cure What Ails the Job Market

    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. Grindr Confirms Buyout Interest From Top Investors

    WSJ · 3 outlets

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

    CNBC · 3 outlets

  4. Regional Bank Worries Weigh on Stocks

    CNBC · 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. FICO Shakes Up Credit-Score Market

    CNBC · 4 outlets

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

    CNBC · 2 outlets

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

    CNBC · 3 outlets

  7. ‘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

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

    WSJ · 1 outlets

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

    CNBC · 2 outlets

  10. China stocks rise, brushing off weak GDP data

    CNBC · 3 outlets

Sports 235 stories

  1. 🏈 College Football Power Rankings: Bama rises

    ESPN · 3 outlets

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

    ESPN · 3 outlets

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  1. Lamar ruled out; Ravens to roll with Rush again

    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. ALCS, NLCS Highlights: Ohtani Leads Dodgers to Sweep; Mariners in Lead

    FOX · 3 outlets

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

    FOX · 3 outlets

  6. Micah Parsons expands on his tush push criticism

    CBS · 4 outlets

Technology 266 stories

  1. Do iPhone 16 cases fit the iPhone 17?

    9to5 · 3 outlets

    <div class="feat-image"><img src="https://9to5mac.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2025/10/iOS-26.1-b4.jpg?quality=82&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1600" /></div><p>iOS 26.1 is the first big update to Apple’s …

  2. Apple TV+ is no more and I don’t understand why – it’s HBO Max all over again

    9to5 · 2 outlets

  3. Quordle hints and answers for Tuesday, October 21 (game #1366)

    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. Windows 11 KB5070773 emergency update fixes Windows Recovery issues

    Bleeping · 2 outlets

  4. Apple Vision Pro (M5) to get updated Developer Strap, code and icon reveal

    9to5 · 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. 5 easy tips to make your Sora 2 videos pop

    TechRadar · 2 outlets

  8. iPhone Air sells out almost instantly in China

    TechRadar · 3 outlets

  9. AirPods Pro 3 proved me wrong, but they now have one unfortunate drawback

    9to5 · 2 outlets

Entertainment 334 stories

  1. Which "The Life Of A Showgirl" Song Are You?

    BuzzFeed · 2 outlets

  2. Diane Keaton Saw Doctor 2 Days Before Death From Pneumonia at 79

    USMag · 2 outlets

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  1. TLC's Baylen Dupree Addresses Pregnancy Rumors

    USMag · 2 outlets

  2. Ellen DeGeneres Honors ‘Boyfriend’ Tayt Andersen After His Death at Age 19

    USMag · 2 outlets

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

    USMag · 3 outlets

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

    USMag · 2 outlets

  5. TikTok Comedian Steve Bridges Dead at Age 41, Wife Confirms

    USMag · 1 outlets

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

    BuzzFeed · 2 outlets

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