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Nov 15, 2026
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, right, with Federal Aviation Administrator Bryan Bedford, left, and Rebecca Gay, FAA Acting Chief Technology Officer, speaks during a news conference at the U.S. Department of Transportation, Saturday, Nov. 14, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Tom Brenner)AP Photo/Tom BrennerAir travel was closer to normal Sunday, two days after a nationwide ground stop, but airlines were still canceling flights as they moved planes and crews back into position.
About 1,570 U.S. flights had been canceled Sunday as of 10 a.m. ET, according to FlightAware. That's down from about 6,700 Saturday and more than 9,000 Friday. American and JetBlue accounted for most of Sunday's cancellations. JetBlue had canceled about a quarter of its schedule. FAA Administrator Bryan Bedford has said airlines expect to be back to normal by the end of Sunday.
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said Sunday that the outage started with work to switch lines from copper wire to fiber at an FAA site in El Dorado, Arkansas. When the new router there was turned on, a router installed about three weeks earlier in Amari
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Nov 15, 2026
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick is facing heat in Washington, including from Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, over his approach to AI chip export controls amid Nvidia's national security scandal.
Reports emerged this week that Lutnick took a softer line on Nvidia over the tech giant's AI chip sales to China and failed to put the Singaporean firm Megaspeed on the trade entity blacklist.
Following bipartisan calls to testify, Lutnick has agreed to appear before Congress, but the blame game is already starting with the Trump administration.
"Treasury, War, USTR [U.S. Trade Representative] and State … were in favor of putting Megaspeed on the entity list for months," Bessent said Friday on CNBC's
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Nov 15, 2026
US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, left, and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, right speak in the Cross Hall of the White House before an event on "Investing in America" on April 30, 2025. Trump was joined by CEOs to highlight companies and their investments in the United States during the event. - Andrew Harnik/Getty Images
The first call, as Jensen Huang remembers it, came from Howard Lutnick.
It was around the start of Donald Trump's second term, and Lutnick was preparing to become his Commerce Secretary. His message to the head of Nvidia was simple: whenever you need the president, call us.
Recounting the call on Joe Rogan's podcast last December, Huang remembered fondly that Lutnick had called him and his company "a national treasure."
Two years later, Huang has resigned from Nvidia and Lutnick is under intense scrutiny for what some Trump advisers see as inaction in placing limits on US chip exports to China and his role in cultivating Huang as a top administration ally. Other administration officials have accused Lutnick of bucking internal consensus and Trump's own directives in failing to blacklist an Nvidia customer suspected of funneling chips to China.
Some of Trump's
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Nov 15, 2026
Democrats are seeing new opportunities in the South after stunning midterm victories in Mississippi, South Carolina and Texas.
The party's wins were both big and broad: It flipped highly competitive Senate seats in North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas and Mississippi, delivered new Democratic governors in the Lone Star State and Georgia, and took control of the state Houses in Texas, Georgia and North Carolina.
Now, Democrats in the South are calling on their party to rethink their approach and invest more heavily in the region's voting blocs ahead of the 2028 presidential election.
"The South is not just winnable; it also completely changes the calculus of the path of victory for the presidency if any Southern states are in play," said Fred Hicks, a Democratic strategist based in Georgia and Florida.
"I think Democrats need to take a page from Republicans' 2024 strat
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Nov 15, 2026
Vincent van Gogh's Châtaigniers en fleurs is displayed ahead of this week's auction [Reuters]
Auction house Sotheby's says it is working to resolve a dispute over the intended sale of a painting by Vincent van Gogh.
Châtaigniers en fleurs ("Chestnut Trees in Blossom"), which carries an estimated value of $180m (£136m), is due to go under the hammer in New York on Wednesday.
But representatives acting for heirs of the Fischer family - the prior German owners of the work - say it may have been sold under duress during the rise of the Nazis.
Sotheby's says its own "extensive research" has not established this, but that it will work with the family to try and reach a solution.
"Sotheby's takes provenance and restitution matters extremely seriously and has undertaken extensive research into the ownership history of Châtaigniers en fleurs," the auction house told the BBC in a statement.
"We are aware of the concerns recently raised by representatives of the Fischer heirs and have been in dialogue with them regarding the painting's history.
"While our research to date has not established that the painting was sold under duress, we recognise the importance of engaging thoughtfully and constructively with the family and are committed to working toward a mutually satisfactory resolution."
The painting is being sold as part of a set called the Blaquier-Arrieta Collection.
Sotheby's website details the provenance of the oil painting and how it has researched the artwork changing hands since 1890.
It says Samuel Fischer - a famous German publisher - acquired it 1909 before it was passed down in his fam
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Nov 15, 2026
In U.S.-sponsored peace talks this week, Russia returned to hard-line demands that would rewrite the security architecture of Europe by forcing NATO to roll back its troop deployment to where it stood in 1997 - before the alliance began expanding east of Germany.
The demands, laid out in negotiating points drafted by Russia and obtained by The Washington Post, mirror ultimatums the Kremlin issued to NATO and the United States in late 2021 and early 2022 while senior Russian officials insisted, falsely, that they would not invade Ukraine.
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In effect, Russia's demands would mean that the countries that joined NATO after 1997, including Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic and the three Baltic nations, could no longer host troops or weapons. The Biden administration and U.S. allies rejected those demands as "non-starters."
The Russian document, and new comments from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, indicate that as peace talks restart for the first time in nine months, Kyiv is coming under growing pressure to surrender Ukrainian territory coveted by Russian President Vladimir Putin.
"The Americans raised a question: ‘What if Ukraine joins NATO? Would Ukraine withdraw from Donbas?' This was the first time this had been raised," Zelensky said in remarks released by his office on Saturday.
The White House has not confirmed raising such a question, and the top U.S. negotiators, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, have not disclosed details of the talks that were held on Tuesday and Wednesday in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, or the results of a follow-up meeting with Putin in Moscow.
Putin and his negotiators, however, hav
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Nov 15, 2026
A UPS cargo plane and a Copa Airlines passenger jet collided on the ground at Miami International Airport Saturday night, leaving two people with minor injuries, airport officials confirmed.
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said the wingtip of a Copa Airlines Boeing 737 struck the nose of a UPS Boeing 767 while both aircraft were taxiing around 9 p.m. local time.
Air traffic controllers had instructed the UPS crew to give way to the Copa Airlines flight, which was heading to its gate after landing, while the UPS cargo plane was preparing to depart for Bogotá, Colombia, according to the FAA.
The agency said it is investigating the collision.
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"At approximately 9:15 p.m., an arriving aircraft and a departing aircraft made contact with each other at the intersection of two taxiways," Greg Chin, communications director for the Miami-Dade Aviation Department, said in a statement.
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"Flights are being directed to other taxiways, so there is no impact to airport operations at this time. Two patients were treated on the scene by Miami-Dade Fire Rescue for minor injuries and did not require medical transport," Chin added.
Air traffic control audio reviewed by Fox News Digital captured an exchange between pilots and a controller following the collision.
A pilot aboard the Copa Airlines flight was heard saying, "Somebody just hit us."
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Nov 14, 2026
By David Shepardson
WASHINGTON, Nov 14 (Reuters) - US air travel is not expected to return to normal schedules until late on Sunday, the head of the FAA said, as the aviation system gradually recovers from a nationwide flight shutdown that officials blamed on routine maintenance gone awry.
As of 9:35 p.m. ET (0235 GMT), airlines on Saturday had ?canceled more than 6,400 US flights and delayed more than 8,000, according to FlightAware, an aviation website. That followed about 9,200 flights canceled and 7,500 delayed on Friday after ?the FAA ordered a nationwide ground stop because of disruptions to air traffic communications. FlightAware said 875 flights scheduled for Sunday were already canceled.
Federal Aviation Administration head Bryan Bedford said on Saturday that he expected airline operations to largely return to ?normal by late Sunday. He also apologized for the disruption, adding that the system remains stable.
The FAA issued a nationwide ground stop on Friday that halted nearly all departing flights for almost five hours. It was the longest nationwide halt to air travel since the attacks of September 11, 2001, and one of the single worst US travel days ever.
The issue prompted the White House to convene an emergency meeting in the Situation Room on Friday and federal agencies to scramble to determine if it was a cyberattack. But the problem was traced to FAA contractor L3Harris' installation of at least one new router at a remote ?facility, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said on Saturday.
"We're working to determine ?whether we had incompetence, meaning was it user error or installer error from L3Harris, or did they install a faulty router? We haven't determined what the fault was," Duffy said at a press conference.
The Professional Aviation Safety Specialists, a union representing FAA safety employees, said the issue was isolated to two ?routers that were updated Friday. An offic
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Nov 14, 2026
WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge on Saturday ordered a two-week delay to any work at a historic Washington public golf course not far from the White House, blocking for now President Donald Trump's push to redevelop the site along the Potomac River into a championship-level venue.
U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes issued the temporary restraining order before the East Potomac Golf Links was due to close Sunday for 15 months. Trump had announced work would begin that day despite the legal challenge initiated against the project in February by the DC Preservation League and two local golfers.
The plaintiffs argue that Trump's plan would change the character of the accessible golf course and make it unaffordable, something the Republican president denies. They had sought the stop-work order, saying that closing the course and launching work on the project would "irreparably injure plaintiffs and the public interest."
The president's public announcements on social media last month outlining the date of the closure of East Potomac Park and linking it to the renovation of the golf course weighed heavily in the decision. Trump said on Oct. 26 that "We are closing the East Potomac Golf Course Site as schedu
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Nov 14, 2026
Federal aviation officials were repeatedly warned that the push to rapidly modernize the nation's air traffic control system risked breaking it, with the potential dangers spelled out in government reports in the months and years leading up to Friday's nationwide ground stop that halted flights for nearly 4½ hours coast to coast.
A government watchdog report in September cautioned that the way the old, legacy systems were being replaced could result in disruptions - including ground stops.
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A separate Federal Aviation Administration-commissioned safety review in 2023 also warned about potential air traffic disruptions from the agency's technology updates, saying the FAA needed to ensure the old systems were preserved during the critical changeover period.
The predicted disruptions arrived Friday, resulting in more than 12,000 flight cancellations with outrage and delays rippling across the weekend.
Federal officials blamed a remote, overloaded router that a contractor was installing as part of a long-running effort to replace copper wires with fiber cables for air traffic communications nationwide. The router was sending "over 1,000 connection attempts every four to five seconds," causing "instability" with the system that allows controllers to talk with planes cruising at high altitudes, Transportation Secretary Sean P. Duffy said Saturday.
Duffy painted it as an isolated incident, saying it was either a contractor's error or faulty equipment. FAA Administrator Bry
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Nov 14, 2026
Federal aviation officials were repeatedly warned that the push to rapidly modernize the nation's air traffic control system risked breaking it, with the potential dangers spelled out in government reports in the months and years leading up to Friday's nationwide ground stop that halted flights for nearly 4½ hours coast to coast.
A government watchdog report in September cautioned that the way the old, legacy systems were being replaced could result in disruptions - including ground stops.
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A separate Federal Aviation Administration-commissioned safety review in 2023 also warned about potential air traffic disruptions from the agency's technology updates, saying the FAA needed to ensure the old systems were preserved during the critical changeover period.
The predicted disruptions arrived Friday, resulting in more than 12,000 flight cancellations with outrage and delays rippling across the weekend.
Federal officials blamed a remote, overloaded router that a contractor was installing as part of a long-running effort to replace copper wires with fiber cables for air traffic communications nationwide. The router was sending "over 1,000 connection attempts every four to five seconds," causing "instability" with the system that allows controllers to talk with planes cruising at high altitudes, Transportation Secretary Sean P. Duffy said Saturday.
Duffy painted it as an isolated incident, saying it was either a contractor's error or faulty equipment. FAA Administrator Bry
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Nov 14, 2026
British comedian and TV star Russell Brand was sentenced to 10 years and 6 months on 9 November after being convicted for rape and sexual assaults.Photograph: Brook Mitchell/AFP/Getty Images
The government has said it will consider calls to change the age of consent after a woman waived her right to anonymity to publicly claim she was raped by Russell Brand as a 16-year-old schoolgirl.
Mia Latter, now 37, alleged she had been orally raped by the jailed comedian when she was a teenager and he was 30 years old.
In an interview with the Sunday Times, she called for the introduction of a staggered age of consent - which would make relationships between adults and teenagers aged 16 and 17 illegal.
Louise Haigh, the de facto deputy prime minister, told the newspaper that Latter's "heart-breaking story" meant a law change deserved consideration.
She said: "We need to listen to Mia and other victims like her who have been through these experiences because it's really important that as lawmakers their experience is at the heart of what we consider.
"It clearly would be a massive step to change the age of consent, but it deserves proper consideration and scrutiny. I can absolutely understand why she is calling for it."
Under UK law, adults of any age are legally able to have sex with 16 and 17-year-olds.
Latter said: "It's shocking to me time and time again that whenever the news comes up again about him, it's always in the comments about the relationship with a 16-year-old.
"That's not the most heinous bit. But why is that the thing that everybody collectively gets stuck on? I think we all sort of agree that … adults shouldn't be allowed to have sexual relationships with children, with somebody under the age
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Nov 14, 2026
The Port of New Orleans is seeking more than $1 million in damages after an asphalt tanker struck a docked river cruise ship on the Mississippi River, with a federal judge authorizing the tanker's seizure.
The lawsuit, filed Friday in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana and obtained by FOX Business, names the Atlantic Asphalt tanker, its owner, Nave Shipping SA, and its management company, Thome Ship Management Pte Ltd.
The port alleges the collision caused more than $1 million in physical damage to its Thalia Street Terminal, where the American Heritage cruise ship was docked Friday afternoon.
The port is also seeking compensation for cleanup, repairs and potential business interruption and lost revenue.
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First responders work the scene of the riverboat American Heritage after it capsized following a collision with the tanker Atlantic Asphalt on the Mississippi River near the Port of New Orleans on Friday.The complaint accuses the tanker and the companies responsible for its operation of negligence, alleging they failed to take adequate precautions to avoid the collision.
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Nov 14, 2026
Senator John Fetterman has signaled that he could reach a breaking point with the Democratic Party if Senator Chris Van Hollen is elected to Senate majority leader.
Fetterman, who has repeatedly clashed with members of his own party over Israel, suggested that Van Hollen's potential leadership appointment would be troubling because of his criticism of the Israeli government.
Asked by Kayleigh McEnany during a Fox News interview on Saturday whether Van Hollen becoming majority leader would represent a red line that could prompt him to leave the Democratic Party, Fetterman responded: "Yeah, absolutely, it would be troubling if my caucus elects someone like Van Hollen, that has really made his name being very…hostile to Israel."
Van Hollen has become one of the Senate's more outspoken critics of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government and its military campaign in Gaza. In November 2024, he supported resolutions seeking to block certain U.S. sales of offensive weapons to Israel, arguing that American military assistance should not amount to a "blank check" for the Israeli government. He stressed that he continued to support Israel's right to defend itself and the transfer of defensive systems such as Iron Dome but called for offensive weapons deliveries to be paused until Netanyahu's government complied with U.S. laws and humanitarian requirements.
Van Hollen has since gone further in his criticism. He joined efforts in March to block nearly $659 million in proposed offensive weapons sales to Israel. Most recently, he led a group of senators urging congressional leaders to remove provisions from the 2027 defense bill that would mandate expanded U.S.-Israel military and intelligence cooperation.
Fetterman's comments come as Van Hollen prepares to challenge Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer for the party'
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Nov 14, 2026
The United States is facilitating direct engagement between Russia and Europe amid a push to secure a peace deal in the war in Ukraine, President Trump's special envoy and son-in-law, Jared Kushner, said on Saturday.
Kushner and Steve Witkoff held separate meetings with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy this past week as the Trump administration pushes to end the more than 4 ½-year conflict. The meetings came after the first round of U.S.-brokered talks between the two countries since February concluded on Wednesday with an announcement of plans for a new prisoner exchange and further talks, but nothing to suggest a wider peace deal.
"Our focus is now on facilitating direct engagement between Moscow and European partners and preparing the agenda for the next round of trilateral talks," Kushner said in a social media post on Saturday. "Several new ideas emerged from these discussions and are now being explored. Some may lead to breakthroughs directly, while others may evolve into new proposals that help bridge the remaining gaps."
Zelenskyy, in statements released Saturday, said the U.S. had raised the possibility of a new security framework for Europe, though he warned that Moscow could use such discussions to weaken NATO and reshape the continent's borders.
"In my view, this can be dangerous," Zelenskyy told reporters Friday, referrin
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Nov 14, 2026
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — SpaceX's Starship made a triumphant return to Earth on Saturday, caught in midair by giant mechanical arms where its journey began 22 hours earlier.
It was the grand finale that Elon Musk and his team hoped for — the first-ever capture of a Starship flying back from space. But with the first-stage booster exploding shortly after Friday's liftoff from Texas, the company fell short of its desired double catch.
Wreckage remained in the Gulf of Mexico, cordoned off by buoys, as the stainless steel, bullet-shaped spacecraft lowered itself upright at the launch pad.
The dramatic, sci-fi-like capture helped blot out the booster's messy miss. Cameras panned the spacecraft up and down as it hung hgh above the ground, supported by the arms of the launch tower.
"Can you believe it?" SpaceX commentator Dan Huot shouted, dragging out each word. "Look at her! Baby, she's back!"
SpaceX officials said Saturday's catch demonstrates the full reusability of Starship, intended for moon and Mars travel. Although Friday's booster recovery failed, the company had already made three previous booster catches, validating the technique.
NASA welcomed Saturday's news. The space agency is paying billions of dollars for Starship to land Artemis astronauts on the moon later this decade and help build a permanent lunar base. Musk's ambitions are even grander: He wants to launch a fleet of Starships to build a city on Mars.
"It was almost magic," NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman said via X. "Making more believers by the day ... one step closer to (emojis of the moon and the U.S. flag)."
The world's largest and most powerful rocket — a 407-foot (124-meter) behemoth — blasted off late Friday afterno
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Nov 14, 2026
Passengers of a river cruise boat in New Orleans had to be pulled from the Mississippi river on Friday after a tanker collided with the paddlewheeler as it sat in dock, causing it to capsize.
Those aboard desperately gripped the railings of the American Heritage as it started taking on water and tipping over, sparking a major emergency response.
In what Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry hailed as a "miracle on the Mississippi," all 197 passengers made it to safety.
"There had to be some kind of divine, godly intervention for this outcome," Mayor Helena Moreno said Saturday.
Hours after the collision, the Port of New Orleans sued to ensure the seizure of the tanker, Atlantic Asphalt, which the lawsuit said is owned and managed by a Liberia-based shipping company.
The lawsuit, which also named Thome Ship Management in Singapore, said the tanker caused more than $1 million in damage to a New Orleans terminal.
The docked riverboat was struck "as a result of the negligence, gross negligence, fault or carelessness" of the tanker, Nave Shipping and Thome, according to the suit. CNN has reached out to Thome for comment and is attempting to contact the tanker's owner.
Moreno said 32 people were taken to hospitals with noncritical injuries, while others were treated at the scene for "bumps and bruises." On Saturday, city officials said eight remained in hospitals - two in serious condition, the others stable.
The Atlantic Asphalt appeared to have "lost control," according to US Coast Guard Captain Melanie Burnham, who added that the "exact reason why" it may have lost steering capabilities remained unknown.
"I do not have any indication that this is terrorism-related," Burnham added.
Investigators are now trying to piece together exactly what happened.
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Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, right, with Federal Aviation Administrator Bryan Bedford, left, and Rebecca Gay, FAA Acting Chief Technology Officer, speaks during a news conference at the U.S. Department of Transportation, Saturday, Nov. 14, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Tom Brenner)AP Photo/Tom BrennerAirlines canceled thousands more flights Saturday as they recovered from Friday's nationwide ground stop, but the FAA said schedules should be back to normal by the end of Sunday.
More than 5,000 U.S. flights had been canceled Saturday as of 2:48 p.m. ET, according to FlightAware, already past the top of the 4,000 to 5,000 that FAA Administrator Bryan Bedford predicted. Flight-tracking app Flighty said the outage has now caused more cancellations than the 2024 CrowdStrike software failure. "I do think the worst is behind us," Bedford said, and he apologized to travelers.
The FAA halted departures nationwide for more than four hours Friday, the longest ground stop since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. About 12,000 flights couldn't be completed, Bedford said.
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Nov 14, 2026
Mike Johnson said he decided to leave his leadership role ‘pretty quickly after election night'.Photograph: Alex Wong/Getty Images
In his first interview since the midterm elections, the US House speaker, Mike Johnson, said that the Republican party's crushing losses during the 3 November elections prompted his decision to step away from party leadership.
"Leaders have to take responsibility when things go wrong," Johnson said on Fox News on Saturday.
The Republican leader, who informed aides on 4 November that he would not seek re-election for House leadership, said on Saturday that he reached the decision "pretty quickly after election night".
"We worked around the clock, left it all on the field to win. We had to defy history, as you and I both know, it's only happened twice in 90 years, but we did everything that we could to make that happen," Johnson said. "But, you know, this was the a year where history was not defied …
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"We don't like the results," he said. "But, real leadership, I've always believed, you lead from the front, and leaders have to take responsibility when things go wrong whether it's individually deserved or not, that's part of it …
"I'm going to remain in thi
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Nov 14, 2026
Chris Aceves, center, with the help of friends Natalie Nunez and David Lechuga, carries a sandbag to protect his Pacifica home from flooding caused by huge waves Saturday. From left: Natalie Nunez, Chris Aceves and David Lechuga try to protect Aceves' home from flooding caused by huge waves Saturdasy in Pacifica. (Stephen Lam/S.F. Chronicle)
The Bay Area's biggest waves in more than a decade slammed the California coast Saturday, flooding streets, endangering homes and threatening to engulf anyone who got too close.
The waves attracted onlookers from the North Bay to Santa Cruz County, dousing many with cold water as they ran to higher ground.
Pacifica was hit especially hard, with large waves consistently crashing over its seawall and flooding city streets. Every 30 minutes or so, a wave that appeared to be double the size of the previous one pushed water hundreds of feet inland. Onlookers were soaked by the towers of water, sometimes knocking people off their feet and sending them scrambling in many directions.
Rocks, kelp and other debris surrounded the famous Taco Bell Cantina, and nearly a foot of floodwater along Highway 1 prevented cars from entering the parking lot.
A high surf warning was in effect until Sunday morning for "life-threatening" waves of 25 to 35 feet, potentially 50 to 60 feet at steep shorelines such as Mavericks in Half Moon Bay, the National Weather Service said.
As of 9 a.m. Saturday, significant wave heights - the average of the highest third of waves - were measured up to 31 feet at a buoy offshore Point Reyes, the second largest in three decades of records. Only in December 2015 were waves bigger, by less than a foot.
Maximum waves are often 1.8 times bigger than the signific
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Nov 14, 2026
There were no rockets decking Wall Street bank lobbies this past week, unlike the spectacle surrounding SpaceX's blockbuster June listing.
Instead, bankers marketing Anthropic's (ANTH.PVT) potentially record-breaking initial public offering this week faced an unusually turbulent backdrop as Treasury yields surged and a widespread Microsoft Outlook outage hampered communications, all during — the biggest disruption of all — the sudden ousting of Nvidia (NVDA) CEO Jensen Huang, whose company is among Anthropic's biggest investors and chip suppliers.
At a JPMorgan Chase investor event Friday, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei outlined a future in which AI could help make diseases such as cancer and Alzheimer's relics of the past, while devising entirely new markets in scientific research, robotics, and cybersecurity.
"We can have a much more beautiful world ... It sounds starry-eyed. It sounds crazy. I really do believe it," Amodei told JPMorgan CEO Jamie Di
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Nov 14, 2026
Travelers wait for their luggage at Los Angeles International Airport on Friday, Nov. 13, 2026, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/William Liang)AP Photo/William LiangAirlines canceled thousands more flights Saturday as they recovered from Friday's nationwide ground stop, but the FAA said schedules should be back to normal by the end of Sunday.
FAA Administrator Bryan Bedford said he expects 4,000 to 5,000 of the roughly 41,000 flights scheduled Saturday to be canceled. More than 4,000 U.S. flights had been canceled as of 10:50 a.m. ET, according to FlightAware. "I do think the worst is behind us," Bedford said, and he apologized to travelers.
The FAA halted departures nationwide for more than four hours Friday, the longest ground stop since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. About 12,000 flights couldn't be completed, Bedford said.
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said the outage began while L3Harris Technologies, which runs the network, was switching lines from copper wire to fiber at a remote FAA site. A router involved in the work flooded the rest of the system, disrupting communications with airplanes and radar. Duffy said officials are working to determine "whether we had incompetence" by the contractor or a faulty router. "Until I c
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Nov 14, 2026
Nvidia's Jensen Huang resigned as CEO on Wednesday.Joel Saget / AFP via Getty ImagesNvidia is on the hunt for a new CEO after Jensen Huang resigned.The board of directors appointed Nvidia's chief financial officer, Colette Kress, as interim CEO.Arm CEO Rene Haas, former Apple CEO Tim Cook, and Nvidia VP Ian Buck are among potential candidates.The search for Nvidia's new CEO is officially underway.
The company's board of directors announced that CEO and founder Jensen Huang resigned "effective immediately" in a statement on Wednesday. The board tapped Colette Kress, executive vice president and chief financial officer, as interim CEO until a permanent successor is found.
Huang resigned three days after he admitted to having an affair, and Nvidia's board opened an investigation into whether he was the "target of a foreign intelligence effort."
As the fallout around Nvidia continues, analysts, investors, and prediction market bettors have begun to wonder who could helm the company next. Here's who they
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Nov 14, 2026
Travelers wait for their luggage at Los Angeles International Airport on Friday, Nov. 13, 2026, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/William Liang)AP Photo/William LiangAirlines canceled thousands more flights Saturday as they worked to recover from a nationwide ground stop that halted departures across the U.S. for more than four hours Friday, the longest since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
More than 3,800 U.S. flights were canceled Saturday and more than 2,300 were delayed as of 10:08 a.m. ET, according to FlightAware. That's on top of more than 9,100 cancellations Friday.
The Federal Aviation Administration lifted the ground stop at 8:15 p.m. ET Friday. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said in a press conference Friday night that the airspace had reopened, but warned that "it'll be slow."
"It's going to take us some time to unwind what happened this afternoon," he said.
Duffy said that "instability" in the radar communications at air traffic control centers began at 3:36 p.m. ET. More than 3,500 planes were in the air when the ground stop was issued. He blamed it on an "incredibly old air traffic system."
"We have old switches, old routers, we use 1980s little copper lines," Duffy said. "It's an old system that went down. It went down everywhere. It got overloaded."
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Nov 14, 2026
Campaign signs on October 30, 2026 in Anchorage, Alaska. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
Democrat Mary Peltola has widened her lead over Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan in Alaska's still-undecided U.S. Senate race, moving within striking distance of an outright victory that would give Democrats their 56th Senate seat following sweeping midterm gains.
As of Saturday morning, Peltola had 49.8% of the vote, compared with Sullivan's 46.1%, a margin of more than 10,000 votes.
The Associated Press reported 96% of votes counted, with Peltola receiving 138,240 votes to Sullivan's 127,828.
The former congresswoman gained nearly 2,000 votes on Sullivan in the latest batch of ballots, strengthening her prospects of clearing the 50% threshold needed to avoid Alaska's ranked-choice voting tabulation.
Peltola's campaign declared victory Friday, insisting the Republican incumbent could no longer overcome her advantage.
"There is no mathematical path for Sullivan to win this race," the campaign said in a statement posted on X.
"When the remaining votes are counted, Mary will decisively be elected as Alaska's next United States Senator," the statement read.
Campaign manager Cheryl Bruce echoed that confidence in a statement to Newsweek.
"As more ballots get counted, it's clear that Mary's victory is all but guaranteed, and Alaskans have resoundingly rejected Dan Sullivan's D.C. self dealing," Bruce said.
"Mary won today's ballot
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Nov 14, 2026
AUSTIN - GOP Gov. Greg Abbott and conservative state lawmakers tried to label incoming Democratic governor Gina Hinojosa a closet progressive, warning that she'll turn the deeply red state socialist.
But after Hinojosa's historic upset win amid a blue wave that swept every state office, Texas's first Latina governor-elect vowed during an interview with The Washington Post to avoid culture wars in favor of something Texas hasn't seen in a generation: moderation. On a number of key issues facing her state - affordability, border security, data centers and school vouchers - Hinojosa is staking out what she calls populist positions that seem calibrated to appeal to voters at both ends of the political spectrum. That includes her pledge to work with President Donald Trump on immigration.
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"I agree with President Trump that our border needs to be secure and people should not be coming here to cross into the country," Hinojosa said at the state Capitol on Friday. "It's a dangerous journey and I don't think it will be fruitful for them."
In a Truth Social post Thursday about migrant caravans forming in Mexico, Trump referred to her as "the very liberal new governor of Texas." Hinojosa, seated near a photo of the state's last Democratic Gov. Ann Richards, said the Trump administration had not contacted her and she had not spoken to the president, "but I welcome that conversation."
"Trump and I won the same border communities: I won them this time, he won them last time" in 2024, said Hinojosa, who will preside over the country's second-largest Latino population. Latino voters in places like her native Rio Grande Valley were instrumental in Democratic wins, includ
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Nov 14, 2026
Millions of office workers got an unplanned break from email Thursday. Their bosses' favorite new AI tool got one too.
A Microsoft (MSFT) outage that began midday Thursday knocked out Outlook and other workplace apps worldwide, with Downdetector logging reports from 74 countries within about an hour. By Friday, Microsoft said it was seeing "encouraging recovery progress."
The damage reached Microsoft's AI. Copilot couldn't access users' email, files, or calendars, and the Microsoft connectors for OpenAI's ChatGPT and Anthropic's (ANTH.PVT) Claude broke too.
Microsoft says more than 430 million people use its Microsoft 365 apps.
Microsoft, OpenAI, Anthropic, Yahoo FinanceWhat it means for youYour email isn't lost. Microsoft stretched its ema
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Nov 14, 2026
Linda Mar Water Quality Coalition lead scientist John Keener checks the water temperature as volunteers Amelia Milne and Joshua Boyle collect a water sample from the mouth of San Pedro Creek at Linda Mar Beach in Pacifica. (Jessica Christian/S.F. Chronicle)
"Everything went black," he said.
At the hospital, Farinacci heard that his surfing buddies that day in 2023 had also gotten sick. Medical tests ultimately showed Farinacci had several infections, which he now believes he picked up from swallowing contaminated seawater while surfing.
Pacifica State Beach, also known as Linda Mar, has long had elevated levels of bacteria including E. coli and enterococcus, indicators of fecal contamination that can make people sick. But new DNA tests from a volunteer group have identified a potential source: human waste in water flowing into the beach from a nearby creek. And a recent survey the group conducted found that nearly 300 people, most of them surfers, reported health problems they believe are associated with entering the water, including sinus infections, ear infections, stomach problems, eye infections, staph infections and urinary tract infections.
As El Niño rains threaten to send more runoff and sewage into Bay Area waters and E. coli outbreaks occur at beaches across the region, the new findings at Linda Mar underscore the risks facing one of the area's most popular and accessible surf spots.
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Nov 14, 2026
By Olena Harmash
KYIV, Nov 14 (Reuters) - US negotiators have floated the idea of Ukraine's potential withdrawal from its eastern region of Donbas in exchange for joining NATO, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said, following the latest round of peace talks with Russia in Abu ?Dhabi.
This is the first time the question of linking NATO membership to territorial concessions has been raised during the talks, Zelenskiy ?said in remarks to reporters released by his office on Saturday.
"The Americans raised a question: 'What if Ukraine joins NATO? Would Ukraine withdraw from Donbas?" he said.
"That is why I believe NATO ?is back on the agenda. But you have also heard (Russian President Vladimir) Putin's signals, and this is an extremely difficult conversation."
Putin has long said Ukrainian membership of NATO is a red line for Moscow, citing the issue as one reason for launching Russia's full-blown invasion in 2022.
Zelenskiy reiterated his position that Kyiv was not ready to concede territory but said that if it received a comprehensive package including security guarantees, the right to a strong and well-funded Ukrainian ?army and funds to rebuild, he would put the ?question to a national referendum.
'THIS WAR MUST BE ENDED FIRST'
Echoing comments made by European leaders at a summit in Dublin on Friday, Zelenskiy dismissed Russia's call for a broad agreement on European security architecture to be reached before the ?specifics are agreed on how to end the war in Ukraine.
"We cannot turn everything upside down and start by talking about changing the security framework in the world or across the continent overall, and only then talk about ending this war. This war must be ended first," he said.
Zelenskiy also dismissed Putin's suggestion for ?a ?local humanitarian ceasefire in Kostiantynivka, a hotly contested city in Ukraine's eastern Donetsk region, ?saying it reflected
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Nov 14, 2026
The rapid-fire pace of the Nvidia (NVDA) scandal has left everyone a little disoriented. So we thought we'd make a giant rundown of what's happened — and what we've been thinking about to help make sense of the very fluid situation.
Nvidia co-founder and CEO Jensen Huang resigned under pressure from the board. The one-two punch of an affair with an alleged Chinese spy, Alice Huang, and then news of another one with an Nvidia executive (plus a third with an unnamed employee revealed Thursday afternoon) turned out to be too much for the company's board to ignore. Huang was among the longest-serving CEOs in the S&P 500 (^GSPC), with a 33-year tenure.
CFO Nicole Kress is now the interim CEO. Kress has been at the company since 2013 and has been a mainstay on earnings calls as the financial head. She'll have an immediate test: The company will still report earnings next Tuesday, and markets want to know whether she'll continue Huang's "Bank of Nvidia"
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Nov 14, 2026
President Trump this week declared the war in Iran "effectively over" militarily and "won" by the U.S.
But he did so as American taxpayers are footing the bill for billions of dollars in operational costs to keep the country's troops at the ready overseas.
The war is no longer making top headlines, and firing between the U.S. and Iran is not taking place on a daily basis.
Yet the U.S. has a large presense in the region and is effectively in a war posture, despite the president's remarks, which come after a midterm shellacking for his party driven in part by voter unhappiness over the war.
"We won. Now the question is when we want to end. We must have a total victory. Not a 93 percent victory. It's going to be total," Trump said Wednesday in remarks during a Veterans Day ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery.
A few days prior in a surprise visit to the White House briefing room, Trump declared: "Iran militarily is effectively over. We're just keeping it the status quo."
Despite Trump's remarks, the U.S. is spending millions on the Iran conflict.
The total cost of the fight as of Oct. 16 is estimated at $47.1 billion, including $38 billion accrued from when the war began on Feb. 28 up until the start of August, according to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO).
That means another $9 billion was added over the last three months or so, a relatively quiet period that underscores the costs to taxpayers. During that timeframe, the U.S. military reportedly only carrying out a handful of defensive strikes against the regime after it all but depleted its stockpiles of advanced munit
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Nov 14, 2026
The lower stage of the rocket was diverted to the ocean as it burst into flames [Reuters]
SpaceX has aborted its attempt to catch the bottom part of its huge Starship rocket during its latest test flight.
The company had aimed to catch it using the mechanical arms - nicknamed chopsticks - on the launch tower as it returned to Earth, but instead it was diverted to the ocean, bursting into flames as it came down.
The top part of the rocket is now continuing its journey to space and SpaceX will decide whether it will try to catch this rocket stage at about 15:15 local time (21:15 GMT) on Saturday.
It is the aerospace firm's first attempt to fully recover its rocket, paving the way for making Starship fully reusable so it can fly repeatedly and reduce costs.
The 124m-tall (407ft) rocket successfully blasted off from the Starbase launchpad in Boca Chica, Texas at 16:45 local time on Friday.
The launch tower there was supposed to catch the bottom part of the rocket - the Super Heavy booster - six-and-a-half minutes later when it returned, but it was instead diverted to the ocean.
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Nov 14, 2026
The Peoria Police Department said the evacuation recommendation was issued as a precaution while officers and emergency personnel investigated the threat.
Police determined at about 6:45 p.m. Friday that a package at the facility was a credible threat and established a one-mile blast radius, officials said.
Bomb technicians rendered the package safe at about 9:12 p.m.
However, authorities said a thorough search of the large facility was expected to continue into Saturday, likely until late afternoon. Officials said they were not treating the incident as a hoax.
"When a bomb threat comes in, typically, it's not legitimate, and they're doing it to cause an evacuation of a building or something like that," Peoria Police Chief Brad Dixon said at a press conference late Friday. "This is not the case here. We found a credible package that we deem to be a threat. This is ... this is not. We're not considering this a hoax."
Authorities have closed most streets in the area and are urging the public to avoid the one-mile radius around the facility until further notice.
Residents and businesses within the designated area are being asked to cooperate with emergency personnel and stay away from the area until further notice.
"I am actively monitoring the bomb threat in Peoria, and I have directed the Illinois State Police to coordinate with local authorities," Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker said in a statement on social media. "Please follow directions from law enforcement and stay clear of the area."
Country music singer Jon Pardi's concert in Peoria was also canceled because of its proximity to the bomb threat.
Pardi posted a message to his 1 million Instagram followers Friday night, saying, "Peoria
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Nov 14, 2026
Nov 14 (Reuters) - Microsoft said on Saturday that services had fully recovered across Teams, Outlook and its other products, ending a global outage that crippled online communications for businesses and governments for over 24 hours.
"We have completed our efforts to address the underlying issue of the incident and restored service to the remaining impacted customers and regions," the company posted on ?X.
Microsoft had said server issues were behind the incident that also affected its Copilot AI assistant, and that it was not aware of any malicious activity, ruling out AI as the cause.
Outlook ?and Teams are two of the most widely used workplace applications with hundreds of millions of users. The outage prevented people from performing essential functions such as sending emails, managing calendars and hosting virtual meetings.
It affected government agencies from Australia and Japan to the ?United States, caused delays at trading firms, hindered some companies from publishing earnings and prompted airlines to warn customers of communication lags, according to public statements.
Organizations that host Microsoft services on their own servers, rather than in the cloud, were somewhat spared.
ANOTHER OUTAGE FOR MICROSOFT
The outage, reports of which started climbing around 1725 GMT on Thursday according to Ookla, is one of the longest in Microsoft's history and the second disruption to its services this year.
Microsoft said the outage specifically hit features tied to Exchange Online — its cloud-based email and scheduling hub — leaving unconnected applications operational.
The incident deepens questions about the global reliance on a handful of Big Tech companies that supply both the essential software ?and the cloud infrastructure that underpins it.
It also highlighted the dependence on ?Microsoft's workplace software, with outage reports spiking as employees began
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Nov 14, 2026
WASHINGTON (AP) — More than 2,000 flights were canceled Saturday as airlines across the U.S. worked to dig out from the longest nationwide ground stop in 25 years, which stranded passengers and forced professional and college sports teams to scramble for alternate transportation.
Trump administration officials said new technology being added to the nation's air traffic control system overloaded antiquated equipment and caused "intermittent" communications and radar gaps, leading to the flight shutdown of more than four hours.
A limited number of domestic flights departed after the stop was lifted around 8:15 p.m. ET. But the effects could be felt for days, with officials saying the system is likely to be operating normally in time to handle the Thanksgiving travel rush.
The nationwide stop was the first since January 2023, when another key FAA computer system that sends notices to pilots malfunctioned, and the second since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
Emily Brown and her 14-year-old daughter waited more than four hours Friday at the Dallas airport for their flight to Columbus, Ohio, before giving up. They were traveling to surprise her daughter's best friend. Instead, she had to settle for phoning the friend through tears in the airport, Brown said.
"She saved up her money to buy her own ticket, and she's planned this whole weekend," Brown said. "Now we're not sure when we're gonna be able to go."
Ruth Coles was stuck on her plane for more than five hours after landing at Los Angeles International Airport from Newark, New Jersey. She said the passengers were told they were waiting for a gate to open.
"The p
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Nov 14, 2026
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has had a lot to say about his thinking on the way ahead in the Iran war since Republicans were trounced in last week's midterm elections.
In exchanges with reporters, broadcast interviews and social media posts since Election Day, he's somehow managed to back away from carrying out additional strikes while also backing away from the prospect of additional talks with the Islamic Republic's negotiators on ending the 8-month-old conflict.
The president acknowledged on the day after the midterms that the war and the global economic tumult it's caused were partly to blame for Republicans' electoral losses, while maintaining it was the right thing to do.
Then, at the start of this week, he huddled with Qatar's prime minister at the White House and afterward told reporters that he believed it was highly unlikely he'd need to order new major strikes on Iran, declaring that the war "militarily is effectively over."
But by Thursday, he was again raising questions about whether he needed to rush to find an endgame. He declared that the U.S. no longer needs a deal with Tehran and brusquely directed Vice President JD Vance — who served as his chief negotiator in earlier peace talks with Iran — to shift his attention to the administration's domestic
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Nov 14, 2026
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Alaska voters have elected a Democrat for governor for the first time since 1998, part of a national midterm elections wave that gave the party sweeping wins in state governments across the country.
Former state lawmaker Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins defeated three Republicans, including one endorsed by President Donald Trump. His victory means Democrats will control the governor's office in 30 states, including several they flipped after years of Republican control in places such as Iowa, Georgia, Ohio and Texas.
Kreiss-Tomkins, often referred to as JKT, completed a political comeback three years after leaving the state House. He traveled throughout Alaska to build his coalition and focused on affordability, advocated for full funding of public schools and called for all oil and gas producers to pay corporate income tax. He also sought a moratorium on new data centers until state lawmakers pass regulations for their development.
He said Alaska had become "broken" under eight years of outgoing Republican Gov. Mike Dunleavy and needed a change. He cited among other issues a state ferry system that he said has been left in shambles, with routes to many communities cut drastically. The ferry is a key mode of transportation for southeast Alaska communities not connected by roads, some of which also have limited air service.
Kreiss-Tomkins, 37, emphasized a willingness to work across party lines and said he wanted a Cabinet with Republicans, Democrats and independents.
"If they're competent, if they're service-minded, if they're entrepreneurial, if they're problem-solvers, you're on the team. Game on," he said d
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Nov 13, 2026
If you were traveling on Friday and your flight was canceled or delayed by the hours-long stoppage affecting all departing flights in the U.S., you may be able to recoup some money, including a full refund in some cases.
A good first step is to call your airline. Check the airline's website and app for information about your options. For instance, United Airlines and Delta, two of the nation's largest airlines, put up banners on their websites on Friday evening with links to pages with directions on how to rebook for free or cancel.
A government-ordered ground stop is extremely unusual, and it's possible airlines will have some leeway in their obligations under these circumstances. Again, contact your airline for information.
What travelers should do now Travelers delayed by the national ground stop should:
Verify your flight status with your airline. Delays will filter through the system for days.
Monitor your airline's mobile app for updates. Gates, connecting flights, and departure times are likely to change.
Some airlines have temporarily canceled service. Make sure you know when your flight will be rescheduled.
Know refund options available to you. Federal rules entitle you to a full refund if your flight is canceled or significantly delayed.
Rebook your flight through your airline's app. Rather than waiting in a long line, try rebooking your flight through an app.
Document receipts. Save every expense related to the delay for
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Nov 13, 2026
By David Shepardson
WASHINGTON, Nov 13 (Reuters) - The Trump administration boosted its request for air traffic control funding to $50 billion late Friday after a communications issue forced a nationwide groundstop that halted thousands of ?flights for hours.
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy and the White House earlier on Friday asked for $30.1 billion to ?upgrade the United States' aging airports and air traffic control system.
"This is an emergency," Duffy said. "What's more important than having an air traffic ?control system that actually works?"
The issue impacted the FAA's en route centers that handle traffic between airports. But the Republican-led Senate Commerce Committee said the incident highlights the need to prioritize modernizing those centers over other projects and noted Congress approved $1.9 billion to replace outdated en route centers.
The world's most complex airspace has experienced a series of events in recent years ?that have disrupted flights and risked safety. ?In January 2025, a midair collision at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport killed 67 people.
Congress already approved $12.5 billion over five years in July 2025 to upgrade air traffic control and ?increase the hiring of controllers following complaints about airport congestion, flight delays and technology problems.
The request from White House Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought and Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy seeks $10.1 billion for air traffic control modernization, including $7.2 billion for ?a common ?automation platform and controller workstations and $2 billion for cloud computing.
"This ?investment is critical to complete the modernization of ?our national airspace - delivering a resilient telecommunications backbone for air traffic controllers, modern hardware and software, state-of-the-art control towers, and world-class airport infrastructure," Duffy and
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Nov 13, 2026
Travelers wait for their luggage at Los Angeles International Airport on Friday, Nov. 13, 2026, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/William Liang)AP Photo/William LiangThe Federal Aviation Administration announced that the nationwide ground stop it issued earlier on Friday has been lifted, nearly five hours after thousands of flights were canceled across the country.
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said in a press conference Friday night that the airspace has reopened and some flights have started to take off, but warned that "it'll be slow."
"It's going to take us some time to unwind what happened this afternoon," he said.
Duffy said that "instability" in the radar communications at air traffic control centers began just after 3:30 p.m. ET. At the time, there were more than 3,500 planes in the air when the ground stop was issued —he blamed it on an "incredibly old air traffic system."
"We have old switches, old routers, we use 1980s little copper lines," Duffy said. "It's an old system that went down. It went down everywhere. It got overloaded."
He went on to blame Congress for not providing the funds to update the outdated infrastructure.
"I can't build things if I don't have money," Duffy said.
Last year Congress appro
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Nov 13, 2026
The mayor of New Orleans said on Friday evening that all of the more than 100 passengers aboard a cruise ship docked at the Port of New Orleans on the Mississippi River had been accounted for after a large asphalt tanker crashed into it, causing it to sink.
Mayor Helena Moreno said at a news conference that the collision between the American Heritage cruise ship — a riverboat-style ship — and a tanker called the Atlantic Asphalt occurred around 12:30 p.m. after the tanker "lost control." She said that passengers immediately began disembarking, but as they did so, the cruise ship capsized.
Reports suggest that at least a dozen people fell into the water. New Orleans police, Harbor Police, firefighters and other boats on the river helped rescue them, Moreno said, adding that 32 passengers were hospitalized with noncritical injuries.
"At this moment … we have zero people unaccounted for, which truly is a miracle on the Mississippi," she said. "And that is a credit to the first responders."
Bystander footage from the scene showed the white, riverboat-style cruise ship slowly tipping onto its side following the collision as passengers waited on the deck.
American Cruise Lines, which operates the American Heritage, shared a message on social media saying that it was "deeply concerned" for everyone involved.
"We are in close coordination with the U.S. Coast Guard and local authorities. Guests and crew were evacuated, and we are deeply concerned for everyone involved. We will share more information as it becomes available."
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Nov 13, 2026
The Federal Aviation Administration announced that the nationwide ground stop it issued earlier on Friday has been lifted.
Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy said in a press conference Friday night that the airspace has reopened and some flights have started to take off, but warned that "it'll be slow."
"It's going to take us some time to unwind what happened this afternoon," he said.
Duffy said that "instability" in the radar communications at air traffic control centers began just after 3:30 p.m. ET. At the time, there were more than 3,500 planes in the air with the ground stop was issued, which he blamed on an "incredibly old air traffic system."
"We have old switches, old routers, we use 1980s little copper lines," Duffy said. "It's an old system that went down. It went down everywhere. It got overloaded."
This is a breaking story. Follow for more updates. The original story is below.
The Federal Aviation Administration issued a nationwide ground stop for all flights in the United States until further notice, "due to extraordinary circumstances and for reasons of safety."
This means that planes currently in the air may land, but those on the ground may not take off.
U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin told reporters Friday evening that there is currently no reason to suspect a national security threat is behind the communications outage affecting flights.
"There's no reason for the public to be afraid or scared for their loved ones," Mullin said.
"This is not another 9/11," he added. "This is a telecommunications outage; this is much different."
Mullin said
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Nov 13, 2026
Nearly all measles cases have been in people who had not received the highly effective measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine or whose vaccination status is unknown. - Jayla Whitfield-Anderson/Reuters
Thanks to widespread vaccination, measles had been considered "eliminated" as a continually transmitting illness in the United States since 2000 - but not anymore.
An independent commission of experts that reports to the director of the Pan American Health Organization determined that the US no longer qualified as having eliminated measles, a source close to the process told CNN on Friday.
The news was first reported by The Wall Street Journal.
The decision was widely expected after years of falling vaccination levels and surging case counts, but it's still a black mark on the nation's public health policy.
The international committee that determines countries' measles elimination status considers an infection to be endemic, or regularly occurring, if infections caused by the same strain are passed from person to person for at least a year within the same country.
To determine this, the committee members look at the genetic code of viruses sampled from patients.
Every time a virus copies itself, it makes tiny changes in its genetic code. By studying the genomes of different viruses in an outbreak, scientists can determine how closely the infections may be related and whether they are likely to have been part of the same chains of transmission.
In August, scientists with Utah's public health laborato
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Nov 13, 2026
SAN FRANCISCO — A day after Jensen Huang resigned from Nvidia, Silicon Valley is already anticipating his comeback.
As a close ally of Donald Trump, regularly taking calls — even publicly — from the president, Huang became one of the most prominent and influential voices in Washington for the largely California-based tech industry, leaving a vacuum with his departure from one of the world's most profitable companies that has become the backbone of the AI boom.
But while national security hawks and tech skeptics in Washington prepare to haul him before Congress to bring further scrutiny of his affair with an alleged Chinese intelligence asset, Silicon Valley leaders are mourning his swift exit and positing ways that he could return.
The founder of defense tech giant Anduril, Palmer Luckey, and Perplexity AI CEO Aravind Srinivas have rushed to Huang's defense, while SpaceXSI CEO Elon Musk has even floated the idea of hiring him.
Five other tech industry insiders also told POLITICO they expect Huang to eventually return in a major way to leadership within Silicon Valley. Another three were not quite as confident, but indicated they wouldn't be surprised if it happened.
"It is inevitable, with all of the value that he's created and his role commonly accepted as the godfather of AI, that he will have a second act," said an executive at a p
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Nov 13, 2026
The Federal Aviation Administration issued a nationwide ground stop for all flights in the United States until further notice, "due to extraordinary circumstances and for reasons of safety."
This means that planes currently in the air may land, but those on the ground may not take off.
U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin told reporters Friday evening that there is currently no reason to suspect a national security threat is behind the communications outage affecting flights.
"There's no reason for the public to be afraid or scared for their loved ones," Mullin said.
"This is not another 9/11," he added. "This is a telecommunications outage; this is much different."
Mullin said it would "take some time" to resolve the issue and that flights already in the air are being handled on a "case-by-case" basis.
U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy wrote in a post on X, "The @FAAnews issued a nationwide ground stop for all U.S. airports following a communication issue impacting all Air Route Traffic Control Centers. FAA technicians are investigating the issue. We will provide immediate updates as we have them."
As of 6:45 p.m. ET, there were more than 10,000 flights delayed and more than 3,200 canceled within, into or out of the U.S., according to FlightAware.com, a live flight tracker website.
There were more than 30,000 departures and arrivals scheduled for the remainder of the day, according to flight tracking app Flighty, the New York Times
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Nov 13, 2026
WASHINGTON (AP) — The leaders of the United States, China and Russia plan to meet Thursday on the sidelines of next week's Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in China's tech hub of Shenzhen — an unprecedented gathering of the heads of the world's biggest nuclear powers.
While the leaders gathering for joint talks will mark a singular moment, analysts say expectations are low that the talks will lead to major breakthroughs and say they will be heavier in symbolism than substance.
Plans for the three-way summit with Donald Trump, Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin were confirmed Friday by the White House. It comes at a complicated moment in relations between the three countries.
Trump has warmly embraced Xi after coming to a truce in their short-lived trade war last year and in spite of differences over the U.S. war with Iran and other tensions between the world's foremost economic powers.
Similarly, Trump has sought to build his relationship with Putin, even as the Russian leader has persisted in his nearly 5-year-old war with Ukraine and as Moscow has deepened its military, intelligence and diplomatic partners
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Nov 13, 2026
The mayor of New Orleans said on Friday evening that all of the more than 100 passengers aboard a cruise ship docked at the Port of New Orleans on the Mississippi River had been accounted for after a large asphalt tanker crashed into it, causing it to sink.
Mayor Helena Moreno said at a news conference that the collision between the American Heritage cruise ship — a riverboat-style ship — and a tanker called the Atlantic Asphalt occurred around 12:30 p.m. after the tanker "lost control." She said that passengers immediately began disembarking, but as they did so, the cruise ship capsized.
Reports suggest that at least a dozen people fell into the water. New Orleans police, Harbor Police, firefighters and other boats on the river helped rescue them, Moreno said, adding that 32 passengers were hospitalized with noncritical injuries.
"At this moment … we have zero people unaccounted for, which truly is a miracle on the Mississippi," she said. "And that is a credit to the first responders."
Bystander footage from the scene showed the white, riverboat-style cruise ship slowly tipping onto its side following the collision as passengers waited on the deck.
American Cruise Lines, which operates the American Heritage, shared a message on social media saying that it was "deeply concerned" for everyone involved.
"We are in close coordination with the U.S. Coast Guard and local authorities. Guests and crew were evacuated, and we are deeply concerned for everyone involved. We will share more information as it becomes available."
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Nov 13, 2026
The Federal Aviation Administration has issued a nationwide ground stop for all flights in the United States until further notice, "due to extraordinary circumstances and for reasons of safety."
U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy wrote in a Friday post on X, "The @FAAnews issued a nationwide ground stop for all U.S. airports following a communication issue impacting all Air Route Traffic Control Centers. FAA technicians are investigating the issue. We will provide immediate updates as we have them."
There are over 7,800 flights delayed within, into or out of the U.S. as of 4:50 p.m. ET, according to FlightAware.com, a live flight tracker website. There are also over 350 flights canceled within, into or out of the U.S.
A Yahoo reporter who is currently on a plane on the tarmac waiting to depart on a United Airlines flight from Los Angeles International Airport says her pilot said, "In a nationwide ground stop, FAA just released an advisory, and we are told that at this time the ground stop will last until 11 p.m. Eastern time."
The pilot added, "What happened was a communications outage that started in Kansas City Center, which is responsible for the airspace above the middle of America, and it spread nationwide."
The Yahoo reporter passed along an update received from United Airlines, which said, "Air traffic control is limiting the number of planes allowed to land and depart each hour in Los Angeles, affecting several flights. We're monitoring the situation closely to get you to your destination as soon as possible."
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Nov 13, 2026
A large asphalt tanker collided with a cruise ship carrying more than 100 passengers while it was docked on the Mississippi River in New Orleans on Friday afternoon, and rescue efforts are underway.
Bystander footage from the scene showed the white, riverboat-style cruise ship named the American Heritage slowly tipping onto its side following the collision as passengers waited on the deck. Reports suggest that a dozen or more people were rescued from the water.
There were no immediate reports of injuries.
American Cruise Lines, which operates the American Heritage, shared a message on social media confirming that its ship was involved in a collision. The company said it was "deeply concerned" for everyone involved.
"We are in close coordination with the U.S. Coast Guard and local authorities. Guests and crew were evacuated, and we are deeply concerned for everyone involved. We will share more information as it becomes available."
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Nov 13, 2026
Nearly a decade after filing for bankruptcy and closing stores nationwide, Toys "R" Us is back, having opened more than 160 standalone locations across the United States as it continues rebuilding its presence in the country.
The company announced on Nov. 13 that its nationwide expansion, in partnership with Go! Retail Group, is complete, with more than 160 standalone locations now open. The rollout follows an expansion announced in September, when Toys "R" Us said it planned to open 120 new stores ahead of the holiday shopping season.
The retailer is also preparing to open a new location at New York City's Grand Central Terminal. A grand opening celebration is scheduled for Friday, Nov. 20, giving shoppers another place to find toys and holiday gifts ahead of Thanksgiving and Black Friday.
The event will begin at 10 a.m. ET at 89 East 42nd St. and feature an appearance by Geoffrey the Giraffe, the company's mascot. The first 50 customers in line will receive a special giveaway, according to Toys "R" Us.
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Nov 13, 2026
In what had been considered Colorado's most Republican-leaning congressional district, incumbent Rep. Lauren Boebert has been defeated by Democrat Eileen Laubacher.
The Associated Press called the race on Friday afternoon.
Laubacher received 48.8% of the vote (187,488 votes) to Boebert's 47.9% (184,047 votes), with 99% of the vote counted. Douglas Mangeris, a libertarian, received 3.3%, or 12,720 votes, per AP.
Boebert, an outspoken gun rights activist, has served in Congress since 2021 and is considered one of President Trump's staunchest allies on Capitol Hill.
Laubacher is a retired U.S. Navy rear admiral who was deployed in Afghanistan. She also served on the National Security Council under President Joe Biden.
Laubacher's victory adds Colorado's 4th District to the more than 40 Republican-held districts that have flipped to Democrats this midterm cycle, including two others in Colorado.
In an interview with NewsNation on Thursday, Boebert blamed her impending loss on "so many different variables" that plagued Republicans across the country, including gas prices, the war in Iran and Congress's failure to address corruption in the U.S. political system.
She also argued that she and other members of the right wing House Freedom Caucus "weren't heard" when they called for Congress to take action on a variety of issues that voters care about, including government surveillance and "fair elections."
The result
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Attorneys for Alex Murdaugh asked a judge Friday to throw out the original murder indictments for killing his wife and son, saying the chief investigator in the case lied to the grand jury.
Murdaugh is facing a retrial on the murder charges after the South Carolina Supreme Court threw out his convictions and life sentence, ruling that a court clerk improperly influenced jurors against him during his 2023 trial.
Even if the request to dismiss the indictments is granted, it may not stop or even postpone an April retrial for the disgraced lawyer. Prosecutors can seek another set of grand jury indictments, and defense attorneys said they won't stop them.
Judge ends hearing with interesting questionJudge Debra McCaslin did not immediately decide on the defense request, promising a written ruling next week. But one of her last comments at the hearing may have indicated where she is going.
"If you had to go back to the grand jury, could you have it all done and ready to go by April 5th?" she asked prosecutor Creighton Waters.
"Your honor, I'm always working ahead," Waters responded.
Throwing out indictments could be another rebuke of agent on caseA ruling throwing out the indictments would be another rebuke of the chief investigator in Murdaugh's case, State Law Enforcement Division agent David Owen.
A judge last year threw out a different murder case Owen was involved in because the dead woman's mother told the agent about a suicide threat her daughter made days before she died that Owen never relayed to prosecutors o
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Nov 13, 2026
Heading into the weekend, a Northeast storm will continue to bring rain and snow to the region before a blast of winter cold moves in, according to AccuWeather meteorologists.
While the steadier snow from a nor'easter across the interior Northeast will end on Friday, lake-effect rain and snow showers will develop on Saturday as colder air settles in across the region. Parts of New York and Vermont could see the greatest snow accumulations, with forecasts of 6 to 12 inches of wet snow, which can weigh down tree branches and cause power outages.
Major northeastern cities including New York City, Philadelphia and Boston are expected to face travel disruptions due to rain and blustery conditions. "Rain, low clouds and aircraft deicing could contribute to flight delays," according to AccuWeather.
Some areas could also experience their coldest temperatures since March. Freezing temperatures are forecast to reach the Deep South by Saturday morning, setting up a widespread frost and freeze across the South and Southeast this weekend. As of Friday afternoon, over 39 million Americans were under a freeze warning issued by the National Weather Service.
But there will be a reprieve from the winter-like weather just around the corner.
"People dealing with snow a
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Nov 13, 2026
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court agreed Friday to consider President Donald Trump's ban on asylum at the southern border, a pillar of the Republican president's far-reaching crackdown on immigration.
The Trump administration is asking the justices to overturn lower court decisions that found the executive order banning asylum applications illegal. It's the latest in a series of immigration cases before the high court.
Federal law gives people the right to seek asylum if they fear persecution in their home countries, no matter how they arrived in the U.S.
At the same time, it also allows the executive branch to decide whether people are granted asylum. The Trump administration argues it can categorically deny asylum to migrants covered by the order and should not have to accept applications destined to be rejected.
Federal attorneys say yearslong processing times had previously contributed to a major influx of migrants at the southern border as many were released into the country while awaiting a decision.
But immigration attorneys at the American Civil Liberties Union and National Immigrant Justice Center counter that border crossings were already falling before Trump took office.
They say his executive order is an unlawful attempt to unilaterally "eviscerate" legal protections aimed at protecting people fleeing danger in their home countries.
The executive branch does decide whether to grant asylum, which allows people to live and work legally in the U.S. But those decisions are supposed to be made on an individual basis and the law doesn't allow the president to unilaterally stop people from e
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Nov 13, 2026
SpaceX's attempt to recover its entire Starship back at the launch pad was thwarted when the booster malfunctioned and ended up in the water Friday, but the spacecraft still soared into orbit in its boldest test yet.
Elon Musk's company had to lower its expectations when the first part of the double catch flopped.
Instead of returning to its Texas pad following liftoff, the first-stage booster ended up in the Gulf of Mexico after an automatic abort. Despite the setback, the bullet-shaped spacecraft continued toward orbit. It will steer toward the pad Saturday for a similar grab, barring further trouble.
It's the first time that the spacecraft will try to return to the pad from orbit, to be plucked in midair by mechanical arms secured to the launch tower. If all goes well, the flight will last 22 hours.
The original goal was to retrieve every single piece of the rocket for the purpose of future recycling, something yet to be achieved anywhere in the world. Musk sees this leading to the kind of fast and consistent launch rates necessary for building moon bases and sending people to Mars.
Shortly after reaching orbit, Starship prepared to deliver 26 of the company's most advanced Starlink satellites. The plan is for Starship to complete 15 laps around the world at an altitude of around 170 miles (275 kilometers) before heading back to the launch site for Saturday's grand finale.
SpaceX had already made three booster grabs at the company's sprawling Starbase near the U.S.-Mexico border. This was the first attempt to capture the upgraded version that stretches 236 feet (72 meters) — the production model for moon and Mars expeditions. It will also be the first time the company attempts to catch the spacecraft, which spans 171 feet (52 met
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Nov 13, 2026
COLUMBUS, Ohio - The young Republicans had grown restless even before their disastrous election, tired of President Donald Trump, his war and his handpicked candidates.
Now about a dozen members of Ohio State University College Republicans plopped down their backpacks for their first meeting since the election and pondered what was next.
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Abraham Dixon, 20, used to identify with Trump's "Make America Great Again" movement. But MAGA seemed synonymous with loyalty to Trump, and he'd come to think of Trump as "the anchor around the elephant's neck." He worried that even a politically diminished Trump would keep bending the party to his will - and compared him to the aging emperor villain of Star Wars.
"He's Palpatine," Dixon said.
It was hard to picture the GOP without the man who defined it for a decade. Trump's GOP was all they knew: Many cast their first votes for him.
But chapter president Hunter Willmitch was blunt in an interview about the changes underway: "The MAGA movement, in my opinion, is dead."
MAGA is certainly muddled, as its rank-and-file voters look to leaders outside of the Trump administration, have crossed over to Democrats or disengaged from politics altogether. There is no consensus about who should run in 2028 and plenty of skepticism for Vice President JD Vance, who once seemed the heir apparent. Like Trump or not, everyone agrees his vacuum will be hard to fill.
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Nov 13, 2026
Singaporean authorities seized the passport of then-Megaspeed chief executive Alice Huang in June 2025 and held it for eight months, preventing her departure while trying to engage the U.S. government to support their investigation into advanced Nvidia chips possibly being shipped to China.
One source with knowledge of the matter told CBS News on Friday the Singaporean government received no meaningful help from Washington during the time she was in the Asian city-state. This source said officials in Washington were "not forthcoming" in response to Singapore's requests for help, and no substantive assistance has been provided to date.
Singapore's government confirmed in a statement this week that it reached out to both the U.S. Department of Justice and the FBI for assistance with its investigation.
Alice Huang is the suspected Chinese spy at the center of the extramarital affair scandal that toppled Nvidia founder Jensen Huang from the helm of the global tech giant he built over three decades.
Since February 2025, Singaporean authorities have been investigating whether Alice Huang and Megaspeed worked with California-based Supermicro to ship the Silicon Valley firm's computer servers — equipped with advanced Nvidia chips — to China, the source told CBS
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Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick has reportedly agreed to testify before lawmakers next month as the spotlight on him grows harsher amid Nvidia's (NVDA) turmoil.
Both Democrats and Republicans alike are raising questions about whether Lutnick went too far in protecting Nvidia's push to sell its chips overseas even as the US government was warning about a possible security breach.
Lutnick is reportedly set to appear on Dec. 10 before the Senate Banking Committee, in news first reported by Fox News. Spokespersons for the Commerce Department and the Senate panel did not immediately provide additional details.
The appearance would set up what could be a major moment for the suddenly embattled Commerce secretary after days in which he and the White House had largely stayed silent as even some of Trump's closest allies grew more vocal.
Lutnick will appear before Republican Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina, the chairman of the Senate panel until the end of the year and a regular on President Trump's campaign stops last month. Scott released a letter Thursday evening requesting that Lutnick and ousted Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang appear before Congress early next month.
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Nov 13, 2026
DODGE CITY, Kan. (AP) — Jose Del Real looked over the crowd from the stage in a park, at hundreds of his neighbors with furious signs tucked under their arms, voicing their anger at immigration agents who had descended on their town and started rounding up their friends and family. His daughters, in the front row, were crying.
Del Real, an Army veteran who served two tours in Iraq, hadn't voted in a decade. He thought it wouldn't matter in this ruby red corner of Kansas. But the midterm election was weeks away. He draped an American flag over his shoulders, put on his Iraq veteran cap and ended his speech with a message: "None of this matters if you do not vote. Let's go vote."
They did. This county and two of its neighbors in southwestern Kansas, Republican strongholds where a steady stream of immigrants have settled over the decades to work at feed lots and slaughterhouses, swung wildly to the left. The shift helped elect a Democratic U.S. senator from Kansas for the first time in nearly a century, signaling the limits of President Donald Trump's aggressive deportation agenda.
Since Democrats won back control of Congress in a decisive rebuke to Republicans, Trump has sent mixed messages about how he plans to handle immigration enforcement going forward. He suggested that his approach to deportations was
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Nov 13, 2026
Gushing victory speeches by Democrats who promised to tame electricity prices marked the beginning of a risky political countdown. Time is not on their side.
The party's focus on addressing cost-of-living issues by expanding clean power could increase prices before it lowers them, according to energy analysts, raising the risk that Democrats could enter the 2028 presidential cycle before fulfilling their affordability promises.
"That's a legitimate issue, and it's not going to be solved in one political cycle," Rep. Sean Casten (D-Ill.) acknowledged in an interview this week. "Now we're just in the sticker shock moment."
Renewable sources like wind, solar and batteries carry no fuel costs and can lead to cheaper electricity, supporting the narrative many Democrats made a pillar of their campaigns. Flooding the grid with clean energy could limit dependence on fossil fuels like natural gas, oil and coal, which can experience sharp price swings in response to geopolitical events like the Iran war.
But generating the power that lights homes only accounts for some of the cost that people pay to their utility company — amounting to just over half of the bill. Other costs come from expensive issues that are harder to address politically, and take more time — like expanding the grid.
"The cost driver is not the generation side in the first place, so it can't solve the problem," said Travis Fisher, a former Trump administration official who's now director of energy and environmental studies at the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank.
Democrats acknowledged that voters might not see their power bills decline in the next two years, pointing to issues that will continue to be controlled by President Donald Trump, including tariffs, the
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Treasury Secretary Secretary Scott Bessent, picutred left alongside Secretary of State Marco Rubio, when Chinese President Xi Jinping visited the White House on September 24, 2026 (Brendan SMIALOWSKI)US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Friday blamed the Commerce Department for failing to blacklist Megaspeed, the Singapore company at the center of a scandal that prompted Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang to resign.
Speaking on CNBC, Bessent said Treasury, the Defense Department, the US Trade Representative's office and the State Department had backed adding Megaspeed to the Washington's trade blacklist, "for months."
"But Commerce has the pen," Bessent said. "You will have to ask them about their internal processes."
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He said he was "frustrated" because President Donald Trump "made it very clear that China should not receive any Nvidia chips above H100s."
"Any leakage is very frustrating because it hurts our great companies, and in the AI race gives the Chinese an advantage," he said.
The remarks are a ra
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Nov 13, 2026
Microsoft was still investigating a global outage Friday that left users unable to access Outlook email and other products.
Businesses and governments were also affected by the massive outage. Outlook has more than an estimated 400 million active users worldwide. Teams is used by a reported 320 million people.
The company said it had not yet found a fix for the issue, which affects multiple Microsoft 365 services that rely on Exchange Online, its email platform.
In an update Friday at 7:09 a.m. ET, the company indicated it was making progress but still unable to resolve the issue.
"We're seeing encouraging recovery progress, with service availability and email delivery performance improving across a growing portion of affected Microsoft 365 infrastructure," Microsoft posted on X. "Some users may still experience intermittent issues as recovery actions continue."
Microsoft did not provide a specific cause for the outage, but said the issue related to a number of servers being "unexpectedly unavailable." Microsoft executive vice president Charles Lamanna said on X there was "no indication this is the result of malicious or cyber activity."
Government agencies in Japan, Singapore and Australia were among those affected, while the US House of Representatives was also impacted by the outage. Politico reported one House staffer saying, "There goes a day of legislative work."
AI companies OpenAI and Anthropic also reported facing issues.
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Nov 13, 2026
Emergency personnel work at the scene of a partial building collapse where, according to local reports, people are trapped in the Brooklyn borough of New York, on Wednesday, November 11. - Angelina Katsanis/Reuters
Leonor Yupa dropped to her knees Thursday when a Spanish-language media reporter said her 22-year-old son was among eight people whose lives were claimed by the Brooklyn building collapse the day before.
"I want my son! I want my son!" the Ecuadorian mother cried in Spanish as family members tried to hold Yupa up and others who gathered at Bethesda Church of God in Christ assured her the reports were unconfirmed.
The agonizing cries of another woman who just lost her husband reverberated through the Brooklyn sanctuary across the street from the collapse. When the woman learned her husband's body was pulled from the debris Thursday morning, she collapsed and wailed her husband's name.
"Tomás! Tomasito!" she cried.
Family members gathered around the widow and formed a prayer circle.
Just outside the church, a nervous father also prayed. He was anxiously waiting to learn the fate of his son, a construction worker who has not been reachable since the collapse.
In the Flatbush neighborhood - home to a mix of immigrant communities - six adults and two children had died and over a dozen were injured after the three-story mixed-use building collapsed on Veterans Day, a day on which many families staye
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Nov 13, 2026
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump told "60 Minutes" this week he knew "nothing" about the World Liberty Financial crypto company that helped him take in more than $2 billion last year alone.
Democrats who'll take control of Congress in January have big plans to find out more.
The incoming heads of various oversight committees are already naming a broad array of investigative targets regarding Trump's personal and administrative actions. They're demanding records, promising subpoenas - and warning people and companies not to destroy any documents.
"If you are a member of the Trump crime family and you're grifting off the American public, you should lawyer up," Rep. Robert Garcia, D-California, who is poised to chair the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee in January, told MS NOW's Lawrence O'Donnell two days after the Democrats' Nov. 3 blowout win in the midterms.
In response, White House spokesperson Lauren Bis told USA TODAY: "If Democrats choose to pursue sham investigations and radical left policies, they are choosing to work against the American people."
This week, White House Counsel Will Scharf warned Garcia that aggressive oversight of the Trump administration and threats against administration officials "may cross the line into blatant criminality," especially if their investigations are used to "harass and aggrandize" as opposed to advancing legitimate legislative policies.
Garcia wasted no time in replying, saying in a statement posted to X: "It appears Donald Trump has something to hide. Let's be clear: Congress' authority comes from Article I of the Constituti
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Nov 13, 2026
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department has functioned for nearly two years as an extension of the White House, unchecked by a Republican-controlled Congress as it pursued investigations into President Donald Trump's enemies, fired waves of career employees and defended administration stances that judges across the country repeatedly deemed legally dubious.
Now, sweeping Democratic gains in Congress have shifted the balance of power in Washington, teeing up an onslaught of expected investigations into those actions and others as well as scrutiny from the majority party that the current Justice Department had until now managed to skirt.
The department has, at least publicly, appeared unbowed by the altered landscape.
Attorney General Todd Blanche says the department will cooperate with Congress but has also insisted that "we will not back down" from the Republican president's agenda. Meanwhile, a top aide told prosecutors on a call to prepare to be on a "wartime" footing, and a U.S. attorney publicly warned a top Democrat about planned congressional investigations.
It sets the stage for a pugilistic dynamic as Democrats promise to join already ske
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Nov 12, 2026
SpaceX's Starship Flight 14 launches at Starbase in Texas on September 28, 2026 (RONALDO SCHEMIDT)Elon Musk's SpaceX was poised Friday to carry out its latest test of the world's biggest and most powerful rocket, the Starship, with plans for a groundbreaking "catch" of the spaceship following a day in orbit.
A successful capture of the Starship upper stage would mark a significant milestone in the space industry's decades-long pursuit of fully reusable spacecraft that can drastically reduce mission costs and make frequent travel possible.
"If successful, this will mark the first full recovery of an orbital launch system and a breakthrough moment in making Starship a reliable, rapidly reusable rocket," SpaceX said.
For the 15th Starship test flight Friday, SpaceX aims to recover both stages of the massive 124-meter (407-foot) launch vehicle.
The company has caught the booster, dubbed Super Heavy, on three previous occasions, with the first stage descending vertically back to the launch site shortly after blastoff and nestling into mechanical "chopstick" arms.
It will now attempt to do the same with the spaceship. Some versions of the vessel are designed to launch internet satellites and data centers into orbit, while others will be made to ferry people to the Moon and Mars.
A spacecraft that can be fully reused is the "Holy Grail" of the space industry, said Clayton Swope, an aerospace expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
"No one's really been able to do that so far," he said. "People have been trying to do that since the (NASA) space shuttle. But the space shuttle ended up being kind of a compromise because a lot of the vehicle wasn't reusable."
Reusing the Starship spacecraft would require the vessel to withstand the e
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Nov 12, 2026
Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, speaking to the Federalist Society on Thursday, warned against any potential congressional action to defund the Supreme Court as he defended the importance of an independent judiciary.
"Congress can turn off the lights at the Supreme Court and stop everything from happening if they want to defund their activities. And there are many, many, many other things that they can do, or at least try to do," Alito said.
"So, it is important to preserve the independence of the judiciary," he added. "If that is eliminated, then the Constitution as adopted in 1789 will no longer be the same."
Alito made the comments in his return to the Federalist Society's annual Antonin Scalia Memorial Dinner, named after the late conservative justice and held as part of the group's annual convention each November.
This year, the convention comes a week after Democrats swept control of both houses of Congress. Alito made no reference to the midterm elections or the pending change in power during his remarks, but Democrats have eyed using Congress's power of the purse as leverage against the conservative-majority court before.
Two of Alito's colleagues — Justices Elena Kagan and Amy Coney Barrett — made a rare
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Nov 12, 2026
What we know about the New York City building collapse
Over the loud noise of her radio, Ann Marie did not hear the sound of the Brooklyn building behind her home collapse on Wednesday night, but she soon saw the flashing lights of fire department trucks rushing to the scene.
When she made her way out to the wreckage, workers were still searching for bodies. One of the building's walls had torn off, exposing the inside of several apartment homes, and the rubble had collapsed into a construction site next door.
At least eight of her neighbours died in the accident - six adults and two children, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani said. Five of the victims were residents, CBS reported.
"Right now, I'm really scared," Marie told the BBC. "Now that I'm seeing exactly this side of the building, you can imagine the fright of those people, what happened to them."
On Thursday afternoon, Mamdani said he had visited survivors in hospital. Eighteen people were injured, including four firefighters. One person is in critical condition.
"I want to take a moment to remember those we have so senselessly lost," Mamdani added. "These were our friends and our neighbours, parents and children, young families building their lives in our city, immigrants from Mexico, Colombia, Trinidad and beyond."
What we know about Brooklyn building collapse that killed eight people
Later on Thursday, a senior official with the New York Police Department identified the victims as Nicole Daniela Salvada Rodriguez, 9, Juan Daniel Salvada Guzman, 31, Kevin Santiago Reyes Gonzalez, 10, Barry Mamadou, 23, and Ndiaye Mamadou, 31, according to CBS. They
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Nov 12, 2026
SINGAPORE — A Singapore-based company at the center of the emerging scandal engulfing AI chipmaker Nvidia said Thursday that it has hired a U.S. law firm for what is likely to be a wave of intense legal and congressional scrutiny.
Megaspeed, a cloud provider that employed a Chinese executive who had an affair with ousted Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, said in a statement that the law firm would help to "independently verify its export control compliance practices."
Megaspeed did not identify the law firm and did not immediately respond to requests for further comment.
The company has been thrust into the global spotlight in recent weeks after revelations that the executive, Alice Huang, had an affair with the then-CEO of Nvidia and was suspected of being a Chinese spy.
Jensen Huang resigned Thursday as members of Congress call for investigations into whether his relationship with the Megaspeed executive damaged U.S. national security.
Megaspeed has been a major purchaser of advanced Nvidia chips that are covered by U.S. export controls. U.S. officials suspect the company smuggled Nvidia chips into China in violation of U.S. law, according to reports.
The Megaspeed website, which is replete with references to Nvidia, lists three data centers vaguely located in "East South Asia." Southeast Asia is a major hub for chip smuggling.
"Megaspeed has cooperated with inspections by the U.S. Department of Commerce's Bureau of Indu
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Former Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick have been called to testify before a Senate committee next month as lawmakers investigate national security concerns surrounding Huang's relationship with a woman suspected of spying for China.
Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, sent letters Thursday requesting that both men appear before the panel, according to The New York Times.
"Recent reports raise serious concerns about our national security and the protection of sensitive U.S. technology," Scott wrote on social media.
"The American people deserve answers," he added.
Scott asked Huang to testify voluntarily Dec. 3 but warned that the committee could issue a subpoena if necessary.
The congressional scrutiny follows revelations that Huang had an affair with Alice Huang, a Chinese businesswoman whom U.S. officials determined had been recruited by China's principal intelligence agency, according to the Times.
Huang resigned Thursday as chief executive of Nvidia, the American semiconductor giant whose advanced artificial intelligence chips have become a central concern in Washington's technological competition with Beijing.
His departure has not diminished bipartisan demands for an investigation into whether his relationship exposed sensitive American technology or national security information to Chinese intelligence.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said Congress must "demand answers" from Huang and called on the Trump administration to explain how it responded after learning about the relationship.
Schumer questioned
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Nov 12, 2026
Microsoft said it was working to restore service as a widespread outage of Outlook email and other products stretched on for hours Thursday.
"We're seeing positive results with our efforts to restart affected infrastructure and recover server availability in an isolated manner. We're actively monitoring the performance of these portions of infrastructure to verify stability, which we suspect will support improved availability as these actions are subsequently expanded more broadly," the company wrote in an update on X.
Los Angeles International Airport tower hit by power outageDowndetector, which monitors outages, reported issues with Outlook, Teams and other products on Thursday, as Microsoft attempted to deploy several fixes.
Amid the Outlook outage, the company said that some infrastructure was "experiencing elevated load across multiple regions" due to strain from a "number of servers being unexpectedly unavailable."
"We're aggressively pursuing all pathways to reduce impact," the company said. "We've paused all deployments, we're moving additional traffic off the affected infrastructure, and we're restarting affected servers to return them to service."
Adobe Stock - PHOTO: Microsoft 365 apps.In the ensuing hours, Microsoft has detailed actions it has taken to try to bring servers back to service, some of which it said did not provide the "anticipated relief."
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic Sen. Chris Van Hollen of Maryland said Thursday that he will run for Senate Majority Leader in the next Congress, setting up a challenge to Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer after the party swept to power in the midterm elections.
Van Hollen said in a statement that "the American people called for change" and that is why he is running.
"It's now on us to meet this moment, and to do that we need new leadership," Van Hollen said. "This is not about any one person — it's about answering the call of the American people. That is why I'm running for Senate Majority Leader."
Schumer has said he has the necessary support to win the race. The closed-door, secret-ballot election will be held in early December.
It will be the first contested election for Democratic leader in decades. The question of whether to reelect Schumer has already divided the caucus and many senators will not say publicly how they will vote. They have privately deliberated about what message to take from the election, and Schumer recruited many of the party's winning candidates and raised money for them.
Schumer has been talking to Democratic senators since the election and forming an agenda for 2027. In private caucus meetings this week, Schumer laid out a broad plan for their first 100 days in power.
"I'm going to win it," Schumer told The Associated Press in an interview last week.
In a statement after Van Hollen's announcement, Schumer said he welcomes any discussion about the future of the ca
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The crash on Oct. 17 in Wichita killed a 6-year-old boy and a 35-year-old man and injured 10 others. (Wyatt Glosson/KAKE / AP)A woman who killed two people, including a 6-year-old boy, when she drove through a Kansas soccer game last month had taken a nap in her parked vehicle before it accelerated and won't be criminally charged, officials said Thursday.
The Oct. 17 crash at the Stryker Sports Complex in Wichita killed the boy and a 35-year-old man, and injured 10 others when the vehicle drove through a soccer field at around 3:30 p.m.
"I can not only find no evidence of an intentional crime, I can find affirmative evidence that there was not an intentional crime," Sedgwick County District Attorney Marc Bennett said at a news conference.
An off-duty police officer and others went to the truck after it had crashed and found the 34-year-old driver crying, Bennett said. Officials have not publicly identified the woman.
"What they found was a sobbing — at turns described as frantic, hysterical — saying ‘I'm sorry, I'm sorry, what have I done,' words to that effect," Bennett said.
He said the accounts of the people who were there that day said "she was sleepy, looked like she had just woken up, these are comments from witnesses who arrived there at the door and interacted with her."
The woman got up around 6 a.m. and drove her husband's truck from Garden City, around 200 miles away, to the sports complex where her children had game
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By David Shepardson
WASHINGTON, Nov 12 - US Senate Banking Committee Chairman Tim Scott sent letters on Thursday to Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and Nvidia's former ?CEO Jensen Huang asking them to testify over recent developments at the company.
Huang ?stepped down from Nvidia, one of the major engines behind the AI boom, after reports of a romantic relationship ?with a businesswoman named Alice Huang whom US authorities suspect of spying for the Chinese government.
In addition, a growing number of lawmakers have criticized Lutnick for the administration's refusal to add dozens of Chinese companies to a key US trade blacklist, and over whether the government ?was properly overseeing Nvidia's exports ?to China.
"Recent reports raise serious concerns about our national security and the protection of sensitive US technology," Scott wrote on X. "I am ?requesting that Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick testify before the Senate Banking Committee."
Spokespeople for Huang and Lutnick could not immediately be reached.
Scott said he would consider subpoenaing Huang ?if he ?does not voluntarily appear. "The American people deserve answers," ?Scott said.
Senior White House officials were ?separately discussing whether Lutnick should be pushed out, two people familiar with the situation said, as the desire to take action rose across Washington.
Separately, the chairs of three House committees, including the head of the Foreign Affairs panel, Brian Mast, wrote to Huang and Nvidia General Counsel Tim Teter, requiring them to appear for closed-door transcribed interviews on December 1 and December 2, ?respectively, or face subpoenas to compel their appearances.
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(Bloomberg) -- At the end, Jensen Huang looked broken and shattered, his legendary energy depleted. After weeks spent denying the allegations of infidelity and fighting to remain in his job as Nvidia Corp.'s chief executive officer, his surrender late Wednesday night was unconditional. Huang's usual take-charge demeanor had evaporated, according to a person familiar with the situation, and he'd started using phrases like "whatever" and "I don't care."
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Nov 12, 2026
President Donald Trump is again facing pressure over his Commerce secretary and longtime friend Howard Lutnick as the department and its leaders face mounting bipartisan criticism in the wake of the Nvidia scandal, according to multiple current and former officials.
Although Lutnick has weathered criticism previously — including over his ties to deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein — he is now facing the most intense scrutiny of his nearly two years as Commerce secretary as Republican and Democratic lawmakers call for him to testify about his department's handling of Nvidia and national security risks around China gaining access to U.S. chips. Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) requested Lutnick to voluntarily appear before the Senate banking committee, which he chairs, in a Thursday night letter.
And he's facing criticism from within the administration, too, for a close relationship with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang they say resulted in lax oversight of the chipmaker. Huang resigned amid the scandal.
Seven current and former administration officials said that the seriousness of the allegations makes this episode substantially different from past
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Nov 12, 2026
WASHINGTON - As police investigate why a board-certified emergency physician might have opened fire in a Washington, DC, neighborhood Nov. 12, they pointed to a lawsuit against his homeowners association as potentially playing a role.
Police said Matt Wade Lambert, a 55-year-old healthcare professional, shot and killed his building manager, James Stuart, in a DC gym before barricading himself inside his apartment and shooting four additional people from his patio early in the morning on Nov. 12. Lambert also shot and killed himself, police said.
One of the shooting victims remains in critical condition, while the other three do not have life threatening injuries, police said.
Those who knew Lambert said they were shocked. His professional acquaintances described Lambert as a "genuine" and "good" person in conversations with USA TODAY. His attorney, Joel Braithwaite, said during a news conference that life appeared to be looking up for Lambert before the shooting, noting that he was scheduled to begin a new job Nov. 16.
Braithwaite said Lambert gave no indication that he was at a breaking point during a phone conversation they had Nov. 10.
Lambert, who worked as a con
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Nov 12, 2026
At least four people were wounded and one was killed during a shooting at a condo building in the Logan Circle neighborhood of Washington, D.C., early Thursday, police said. The gunman was identified as 55-year-old emergency room physician Matt Lambert.
Officers responded to reports of an active shooting at a gym inside the building just before 8 a.m. ET, Metropolitan Police Department interim chief Jeffery Carroll said at a press briefing.
Once inside, police located one victim — building manager James Stuart, 46 — who died at the scene, Carroll said. Four others were wounded after Lambert went back up to his apartment, where he barricaded himself inside, and shot them from his balcony. They were transported to local hospitals. One was in critical condition, Carroll said. Three had non-life-threatening injuries.
Much of the block was cordoned off, and nearby schools were placed on temporary lockdown.
SWAT officers walk behind police tape at the scene of Thursday's shooting.AP Photo/Tom BrennerWhile police attempted to negotiate with Lambert, he fatally shot himself, Carroll said.
While inside his apartment, Lambert also cut a natural gas line to the fireplace, starting a fire, Carroll said. The building's sprinkler system was activated and the fire was extinguished.
Lambert's long-running disputes with his bui
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Nov 12, 2026
The New York City Fire Department said Thursday afternoon that rescue operations had concluded at the scene of the three-story building that collapsed in the Flatbush neighborhood of Brooklyn, N.Y., and that there were no more victims.
Six adults and two children died as a result of the collapse, Mayor Zohran Mamdani said at a press conference Thursday. The four-unit apartment building crumpled into the construction site next to it at about 4 p.m. ET on Wednesday.
Multiple news outlets identified seven of the eight people who died, citing law enforcement officials and the victims' family members and friends.
Those identified are:
Mamadou Barry, 23
José Luis Caguana Cosquillo, 26
Kevin Santiago Reyes Gonzalez, 10
Edgar Santiago Sapón Gutierrez, 26
Juan Daniel Salvada Guzman, 31
Nicole Daniela Rodriguez, 9
Gabriel Siguencia, 22
The eighth victim, a 35-year-old man, has not been publicly identified.
"This has been a devastating ev
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Nov 12, 2026
With Jensen Huang out as CEO at Nvidia (NVDA) and CFO Colette Kress taking on the role of interim CEO, Wall Street, the company's partners, and its customers are waiting to find out who the next permanent CEO will be.
There are a number of candidates inside and outside of the company who could fill the position. But prediction markets Kalshi and Polymarket have zeroed in on Nvidia VP of hyperscale and high-performance computing Ian Buck as the company's next leader.
Both sites rank the odds of Buck taking over at roughly 40%.
Buck has worked at Nvidia for the last 22 years, rising from a systems engineer to his current role as the head of the company's biggest businesses.
The executive also has the kind of engineering chops that Nvidia's board may find compelling for the CEO role.
Buck has a Ph.D. from Stanford University in computer science and, more importantly, developed Nvidia's CUDA technology.
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Nov 12, 2026
Microsoft said it was investigating an outage Thursday that left people unable to access Outlook email and other products.
In a message posted at 12:54 p.m. ET on the official Microsoft 365 Status account on X, the company said it was "investigating reports of users experiencing issues accessing Exchange Online mailboxes through multiple connection methods in the Americas." In an update at 1:07 p.m. ET, the company said it had "confirmed the issue may affect Microsoft 365 service connectivity for users in any region."
Outage tracking site Downdetector showed an increase in reports that hit a peak just before 1 p.m. ET. Thousands of users reported problems with its Outlook, Copilot, Teams and Sharepoint services, and some even reported problems accessing Microsoft Word and Excel.
Microsoft did not provide a cause for the outage, but said on X that it was offering updates in its admin center, which also appeared to be down Thursday afternoon. In its X posts, Microsoft said its systems were experiencing an "elevated load" and that it was "redistributing connection traffic" across its infrastructure.
The company said in another update at 2:12 p.m. ET
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Nov 12, 2026
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has resigned from his top post at the chipmaker he co-founded, after reports of the tech titan's extramarital affairs came into the spotlight this week.
One of those relationships has raised national security concerns. The New York Times reported that Huang had an affair with a businesswoman U.S. intelligence suspects to be a Chinese spy, which Beijing denies. Separately, the outlet and later others reported that Nvidia employees said Huang had another affair with an executive who reported to him directly — compounding calls for him to step down.
Nvidia announced Huang's resignation on Thursday, effective immediately. The California-based company said that Colette Kress — who has been Nvidia's chief financial officer and executive vice president since 2013 — will step into the role of interim CEO.
The scandal marks the most tumultuous chapter yet for Nvidia, whose high-end chips have emerged as the leading building blocks for artificial intelligence. Huang himself has become a key face in the AI race, both across the industry and often on U.S. President
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Nov 12, 2026
At a press conference on Thursday afternoon, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani provided updates on the Brooklyn building collapse, saying that six adults and two children were among the eight people who died on Wednesday. Two of the adults who died were construction workers.
"This has been a devastating evening and morning for our city," Mamdani said.
Mamdani also confirmed that 18 other people were injured, including 14 civilians and four firefighters. The vast majority of those injured and being treated at hospitals are in stable condition, with one person in critical condition.
"I want to take a moment to remember those we have so senselessly lost. These were our friends and our neighbors, parents and children," the mayor said. "Young families building their lives in our city and immigrants from Mexico, Colombia, Ecuador, Trinidad and beyond. Let us continue to hold close those who have been plunged into unimaginable grief and pray for a full and rapid recovery for every New Yorker injured."
Mamdani also thanked the first responders and construction workers who helped dig through the rubble to find survivors. "People are alive today because of their heroism yesterday," he said.
"Firefighters arrived on the scene in less than one minute after the 911 call first came in," Mamdani added.
The American Red Cross has opened a reception center at the Flatbush YMCA for residents who were affected and displaced by the building collapse. Mamdani said the city and American Red Cross will continue to provide "expanded services" from the Flatbush YMCA for residents displaced by the building collapse, including temporary housing, assistance with social services and mental health support.
"Conditions will grow more challenging today wi
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Nov 12, 2026
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Thursday honored the Army sentinel who forcefully scolded members of his entourage for laughing and talking near Arlington National Cemetery's Tomb of the Unknown Soldier on Veterans Day.
Hegseth posted a photo of himself on social media pinning a Joint Service Commendation Medal on the unidentified soldier's chest.
"We love soldiers. We love standards. Well done, Specialist," Hegseth wrote. "Carry on Patriots."
On Veterans Day, Hegseth, his wife Jennifer, and three of his top deputies were seen posing for photographs on the steps overlooking the tomb, which has provided a final resting place for several of America's unidentified service members — and a site of reflection and mourning — since 1921. Members of the group could be heard chuckling and chatting as they ascended the steps.
We love standards.
Well done, Specialist.
Carry on Patriots. pic.twitter.com/Uk6ek6oOso
— Secretary of War Pete Hegseth (@SecWar) November 12, 2026
The sentinel — a member of the Army's 3rd Infantry Regiment, known as The Old Guard — stepped forward and shouted in their direction: "All visitors will maintain an atmosphere of silence and respect at all times!"
Video of the encounter, which followed the annual Veterans Day wreath-laying ceremony, spread quickly online.
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Nov 12, 2026
Reddit (RDDT) is one of the most frequently cited sources in AI-generated answers. Yet its most recent earnings report showed that Google's AI Overviews have undermined its search traffic.
At Yahoo Finance Invest, Reddit co-founder and CEO Steve Huffman described this dynamic as the "paradox" of AI for the company.
"AI does not exist as we know it without Reddit, " Huffman said on Thursday. "Every model you've heard of trained with or without our permission using Reddit. It's this paradox which is the more AI there is, the more the human nature of Reddit stands out."
In a quarterly letter to investors in October, Huffman noted that Reddit's search traffic "dropped by more than 1 million referrals on average per week" during the month. "Web search is evolving from a gateway to the web to becoming an AI-powered destination itself," Huffman said.
Huffman added in the company's third quarter earnings call that "Google is not sending [users] to Reddit the way they used to."
According to Similarweb, a web analytics platform, Reddit's traffic is down 13% year over year. Reddit's $60 million-a-year data deal with Google is up for renewal next year.
The company's Q3 report showed total daily active unique users increased 12% year over year to 130.3 million (slightly below analyst expectations of 133.7
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Nov 12, 2026
NEW YORK (AP) — Two Democratic senators are launching an investigation into whether Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. lied to Congress about his reason for a 2019 trip to Samoa after The Associated Press and The Guardian published documents in August refuting his testimony.
The new inquiry is one of a vast array of investigations planned into the Trump administration after Democrats regained control of the House and Senate from Republicans in the midterm elections.
Sens. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Angela Alsobrooks, D-Md., said in a letter Wednesday to Children's Health Defense, a nonprofit group known for anti-vaccine activism that was formerly chaired by Kennedy, that they were starting an investigation.
The lawmakers asked the group for a broad range of documents related to Kennedy's Samoa travel, his 2024 presidential campaign and his Senate confirmation process. The letter also requested all communications between the group and federal government officials since President Donald Trump's second term began in January 2025. The senators gave the group a deadline of Dec. 4 to comply.
AP and Guardian reporting in August showed that while Kennedy repeatedly told lawmakers who held the key to his confirmation last year that his
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Nov 12, 2026
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said Thursday that no migrant caravans have reached the U.S. border since U.S. President Donald Trump returned to office in 2025, responding to his threat to double tariffs on Mexican goods unless Mexico stops migrants from traveling through its territory.
"Not a single migrant caravan has reached the north" since January 2025, Sheinbaum said at her daily news briefing.
Sheinbaum said a caravan of about 600 migrants traveling through the southern state of Chiapas had largely dispersed after its members were told that reaching the United States would be "very difficult."
She said Mexican authorities were also in talks with another group of several hundred Honduran migrants, encouraging them to return to their home country.
Asked whether Mexico would use force to break up the caravans, Sheinbaum ruled out such measures, saying authorities have "extensive experience" accompanying migrants and explaining that they have little chance of crossing into the United States.
Earlier Thursday, Trump claimed on Truth Social that the United States faced an "invasion" following midterm elections in which Democrats won control of Congress.
"Huge caravans are forming and beginning their illegal march through Mexico. Many of the people in these Caravans are those that various countries don't want," he wrote. "MEXICO MUST STOP THEM, NOW, and if they do not do so, the Tariffs on Mexico will be IMMEDIATELY DOUBLED."
Following the election, Trump named Stephen Miller, an architect of his hard-line immigration policies, as White Ho
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Nov 12, 2026
At least five people were shot in Washington, D.C.'s Logan Circle neighborhood early Thursday, and police said the suspected shooter was barricaded inside a building.
Police responded to reports of an active shooting inside a gym just before 8 a.m. ET.
At 9.21 a.m. ET, police said that the suspect had been barricaded in the 1500 block of 15th Street, Northwest.
D.C. council member Brooke Pinto posted to her X account that the shootings happened "at and outside Vida fitness," adding. "Shooting in the area of 15th and P Streets NW this morning. Please avoid the Logan Circle area as MPD responds."
The Associated Press reported five people had been shot.
People have been told to avoid the area at 15th St. NW and P St. NW, while authorities attend the incident. Much of the block was cordoned off and schools near the scene were placed on lockdown.
Witness Ryan Dubicki said he was in his apartment around 8 a.m. when he "heard about five bangs."
"They were really spread out so I thought it was construction," he said. His apartment building managers sent a notice that there was a possible active shooter.
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Nov 12, 2026
President Trump on Thursday reacted to reports that more than 1,000 migrants are heading toward the U.S. from Mexico, which he connected to sweeping Republican losses in the midterms.
A Chiapas state government source told Reuters that around 1,500 people, including several families with small children and strollers, left the Mexican city of Tapachula by Guatemala's border on Tuesday.
"Here we go again! With the perceived loss by the Republicans in the Midterms — I WAS NOT ON THE BALLOT — the INVASION of our Country is taking place again," Trump wrote on Truth Social. "Huge CARAVANS are forming and beginning their illegal march through Mexico."
He directed a warning toward Mexico, saying the country's government must stop the caravan or the "Tariffs on Mexico will be IMMEDIATELY DOUBLED."
"MEXICO, THE GOVERNOR OF TEXAS, THE VERY LIBERAL NEW GOVERNOR OF TEXAS, OUR GREAT BORDER PATROL, & ICE, HAVE BEEN SO INFORMED," the president's post concluded. "There will be no leniency!"
Many of the migrants, coming from Central America, told Reuters and other outlets that the Democratic victories last week could open new opportunities for them in the U.S.
"There might
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Nov 12, 2026
Nvidia (NVDA) CFO Colette Kress has been named interim CEO after Jensen Huang stepped down amid allegations of an affair with a Chinese spy and a company executive.
Kress, one of Nvidia's more prominent executives, joined the company in 2013 and helped guide its financial success, transforming it from a video game company into the AI juggernaut it is today.
In a statement, Kress said she is committed to building on the work Jensen has done to turn Nvidia into the company it has become.
"We will continue advancing the work that has made Nvidia a leader in accelerated computing and AI, and execute on the opportunities ahead. Our focus remains on serving our customers, partners, developers and shareholders," she said.
Kress regularly provides financial updates during Nvidia's quarterly earnings call, making her well-known among analysts and investors.
Prior to joining the company, Kress served as senior vice president and CFO for Cisco's (CSCO) Business Technology and Operations Finance group,
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Nov 12, 2026
Democratic Sens. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and Chris Coons of Delaware have formally asked the Trump administration to "preserve all records" related to the administration's dealings with Nvidia (NVDA) as Democrats prepare to take power on Capitol Hill in 2027 and promise to probe the issues surrounding CEO Jensen Huang's departure.
The request came in a letter Wednesday evening targeting any administration materials related to the chipmaker's exports to China, as well as the ousted CEO's affair with a suspected Chinese intelligence asset.
Huang's resignation "does not absolve him, other executives, or the company as a whole of responsibility for putting our national security at risk or for any potential violations of our laws," Warren said in a statement Thursday morning adding that Trump officials must still "explain why they have not closed export control loopholes."
The letter was directed to Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and White House chief of staff Stephen Miller and noted reports that Trump officials were aware of concerns about Nvidia, "yet did not move to block the continued flow of advanced AI chips to Megaspeed or other companies affiliated with the suspected operative."
The White House didn't offer an immediate response Thursday morning. The letter asked the officials to confirm by next Tuesday that they will comply and have begun the document preservation process.
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Nov 12, 2026
THE TAKEAWAY:
NOAA announced that the 2026 El Niño has reached Super El Niño status.Water temperatures in the Niño 3.4 region of the equatorial Pacific have climbed to 2.0°C above average for three consecutive months.A Super El Niño will have a major impact on the 2026-2027 winter, causing more storms in the southern tier of the U.S. and above-average temperatures in the northern tier.NOAA's Climate Prediction Center (CPC) announced Thursday that the 2026 El Niño has officially reached Super El Niño status, also known as a Very Strong El Niño.
Pena Becomes First November Tropical Storm To Form In Central Pacific Since 1982 Amid Intensifying El Niño
Water temperatures in the Niño 3.4 region of the equatorial Pacific, where forecasters monitor the strength of El Niño, have climbed to 2.0°C above average, meeting the threshold for the designation.
To determine the strength of the climate pattern, forecasters use a three-month average of ocean temperatures rather than daily readings. This approach helps account for short-term fluctuations and provides a more consistent picture of changing ocean conditions.
The latest evaluation found that the three-month period from August through October reached the 2°C threshold. An earlier assessment covering July through September did not record temperatures high enough to qualify as a Super El Niño.
Nasa Satellites Reveal Striking Ocean Color Change As Super El Niño Strengthens
El Niño has been in effec
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Nov 12, 2026
Nvidia (NVDA) stock tanked in premarket trading after Jensen Huang resigned as CEO. The company's CFO, Colette Kress, will serve as the interim head of the business until a permanent successor is named.
Nvidia stock dropped 10% on the news.
The leadership shakeup followed a report from The New York Times on Wednesday that embattled Nvidia (NVDA) CEO Jensen Huang was allegedly involved in a second extramarital affair. The company's board was reportedly meeting on Wednesday night to determine if it will oust Huang as chief executive, the Wall Street Journal reports.
According to the report, Huang, whose relationship with a woman alleged to be a Chinese spy has embroiled the company in scandal this week, also had a relationship with Nvidia executive Kimberly Powell. The Times report says that Huang and Powell were seen being affectionate at a hotel during a company conference in March.
Huang was already
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Nov 12, 2026
What to know about the Iran war today:A senior Iranian security official insisted Thursday that Tehran would "decide on the manner and agenda of any negotiations" with the U.S. only after its "seven conditions are fulfilled and accepted." Secretary of State Marco Rubio has called those conditions "unacceptable."During a Veterans Day address Wednesday, President Trump again declared victory in the war with Iran, but he also acknowledged the conflict wasn't over. "Just a question of when we want to end it," he said.The head of Iran's Supreme National Security Council vowed Wednesday that Tehran would not allow the removal of "even a single particle of enriched nuclear material" from the country, casting doubt on diplomatic efforts as the U.S. has long sought a peace deal that would see Iran give up its enriched uranium.
Trump says "we don't need a deal with Iran"
President Trump said Thursday that the United States doesn't need a peace deal with Iran, claiming the U.S. holds Tehran's money, possibly referring to frozen financial assets, and that the U.S. has control over the Strait of Hormuz.
"Those days have long since passed," the president wrote on Truth Social of the prospects for a peace deal. "We've got their money, Hundreds of Billions of Dollars, and we've got their Strait!"
His remarks, offered without furt
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Nov 12, 2026
WASHINGTON, Nov 12 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump said on Thursday he wanted Vice President ?JD Vance to focus "his complete and total ?attention" on any crime and corruption in Democratic-run US cities, ?saying that effort could save more money than a deal with Iran.
"Our Budget could be quickly BALANCED with the correction of this large scale criminal ?activity. CORRUPTION is ?in the Democrat Leadership's blood!" Trump wrote on social media. "We don't need a ?deal with Iran. Those days have long since passed. We've got their money, Hundreds of Billions ?of Dollars, ?and we've got their ?Strait!"
Vance, who had taken ?on a role in trying to resolve the conflict with Iran, distanced himself from Trump's war on Wednesday after Republicans' midterm election rout by Democrats.
He questioned whether it was worth the cost ?and blamed the Iran war ?for Republicans' election losses.
Vance, ?who is seen ?as a leading 2028 presidential contender, ?also said an earlier recommendation ?to end ?the war was "sound advice."
Trump has repeatedly targeted Democratic-run cities over immigration policies and alleged corruption ?since taking office ?in January 2025 for his second White ?House term.
(Reporting by Doina Chiacu and Susan ?HeaveyEditing by Tomasz Janowski)
This article originally appeared on Reuters at https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/trump-says-vance-focus-domestic-133908907.html
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Nov 12, 2026
WASHINGTON (AP) — Four people were shot in a trendy Washington, D.C., neighborhood within walking distance of the White House early Thursday, said police, who were responding to multiple locations.
The shootings were reported in Logan Circle, about 1 mile north of the White House. No other details are immediately available, including the exact location of the shooting, police Officer Nathan Clarke said.
Police urged people to avoid the area of the 1500 block of 15th Street, which includes a VIDA fitness center, St. Luke's Episcopal Church and residences and is around the corner from a Whole Foods supermarket. Much of the block was cordoned off. Schools near the scene were placed on lockdown.
Streets around the area also were blocked off during a massive police response to the scene. The federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives said it sent agents to the scene to help.
In early August 2025, a onetime member of President Donald Trump's Department of Government Efficiency was assaulted early on a Sunday morning in the Logan Circle neighborhood by a group of teenagers attempting to carjack him and a woman, authorities said.
Days later, Trump fulfilled his threat to bypass local authority and imposed direct federal control over the city, sending in hundreds of National Guard members to reduce crime. That deployment continues today.
This article originally appeared on Associated Press at https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/police-4-people-shot-trendy-133044524.html
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Nov 12, 2026
At least five people were killed and 17 others injured Wednesday, when a three-story building collapsed in the Flatbush neighborhood of Brooklyn in New York City.
The four-unit apartment building crumpled into a construction site next to it at about 4 p.m. ET.
Seven of the casualties were children, Reuters reported, with at least 17 people taken to a hospital. Four were in a critical condition. Authorities did not confirm if any of the children were among those killed.
Two deaths were announced on Wednesday. Firefighters removed three more bodies on Thursday morning, the Associated Press reported.
Rescuers searched for survivors into the night with about 250 first responders at the scene. "We'll continue to look until we find everybody," FDNY Commissioner Lillian Bonsignore said.
A pregnant woman was among those trapped in the rubble. Footage broadcast by CBS News New York showed her being pulled out by rescuers more than two hours after the building collapsed, while her husband waited in anguish.
"She is alive. She is still alive. I'm very happy. I'm very happy. I'm very happy. I thank all of you guys," he told CBS News New York after she was rescued. "She's pregnant, six months."
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Nov 12, 2026
Nvidia (NVDA) stock tanked in after-hours trading following a report from the New York Times that embattled Nvidia (NVDA) CEO Jensen Huang was allegedly involved in a second extramarital affair.
The company's board is reportedly meeting to determine if it will oust Huang as chief executive, the Wall Street Journal reports.
According to the report, Huang, whose relationship with a woman alleged to be a Chinese spy has embroiled the company in scandal this week, also had a relationship with Nvidia executive Kimberly Powell.
Nvidia stock fell in after-hours trading following the report.
The Times report says that Huang and Powell were seen being affectionate at a hotel during a company conference in March.
Huang is already under investigation for an affair with Alice Huang, an alleged Chinese spy. The CEO admitted the affair in a memo to employees.
"I was unfaithful to my wife. My actions hurt her and our children. There is no excuse for what I did. I am deeply so
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Nov 12, 2026
Russia has intensified its strikes on Kyiv ahead of winter (Serhii Okunev)US envoys arrived at the Kremlin on Thursday to meet with President Vladimir Putin after talks in Abu Dhabi on the war in Ukraine, with both Washington and Kyiv suggesting there was a window of opportunity for progress on ending Europe's worst conflict since World War II.
The envoys -- US President Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner and businessman Steve Witkoff -- will fly to Dublin after meeting Putin to brief his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zelensky, who was in the Irish capital to meet with European leaders.
An AFP journalist saw the pair's motorcade arrive at the Kremlin shortly after 1:00 pm (1000 GMT).
Kushner said the meeting with Putin would "go over what was discussed" during two days of talks this week in Abu Dhabi, and to seek progress "because we see some openings and some opportunities".
Arriving in Ireland late Wednesday, Zelensky also said there could be a "window of opportunity" to end the war with Russia before 2027.
"What's important is that the Americans flew to Putin with specifics. I would very much like them to return to Dublin with specifics," he said, adding that while he was still sceptical "there is hope".
European countries have been rattled by Russia pushing a review of the entire continent's security architecture, with the US also floating a new framework.
- 'Biggest' prisoner exchange -
Some 50 European leaders are due to gather in the Irish capital Thursday, with the Abu Dhabi talks set to dominate the summit.
EU officials say there appears to have been little genuine progress towards peace and are adamant that Europe sees no need to discuss its broader security arrangement with Moscow before fighting
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Nov 12, 2026
After a primary season that featured a string of wins for the Democratic Party's progressive wing, the moderates are striking back by claiming credit for a landslide midterm takeover of Congress.
The party will return to Capitol Hill in 2027 with at least 54 Senate seats and 255 House seats, thanks to wins in deep-red districts and states such as Kansas and Iowa. And many of the candidates, such as megachurch pastor and Kansas Sen.-elect Adam Hamilton, avoided staking out controversial progressive policy proposals.
"It is incredibly striking and profound that Democratic moderates were able to hand Trumpism some of its biggest defeats this cycle," Kate DeGruyter, a spokeswoman for Third Way, a centrist Democratic group, told USA TODAY.
The debate over how and why Democrats won will influence what measures the new majority caucuses will take up first and how far those actions should go.
Third Way struck early, with a Nov. 4 memo that claimed "
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