The FAA halted every departure in the country Friday afternoon after a communications failure overloaded the routers at its air route traffic control centers; the stop ran about four hours, but nearly 10,000 flights were canceled, tens of thousands of passengers were stranded, and analysts say schedules will be disrupted for days — only the second nationwide ground stop since 9/11.
Atlanta News First / AP: ground stop lifted after five-hour halt | The National News Desk: DHS blames ‘outdated’ air traffic control system
ELECTIONS & CONGRESS
AP COUNT: DEMOCRATS 256-169 IN HOUSE, 10 RACES STILL OPEN — As of Friday afternoon the AP had Democrats at 256 House seats and Republicans at 169, with ten races uncalled; in the Senate it is Democrats 55, Republicans 44, with only Alaska still out — and the tightest House races, in Minnesota, Tennessee and North Carolina, are within a few hundred votes.
LAME DUCK: FUNDING FIGHT LOOMS AS STOPGAP EXPIRES DEC. 11 — Congress is back for a lame-duck session that runs into December, and the must-pass list is the defense bill and the FY2027 appropriations — the current stopgap expires Dec. 11, and leaders may punt with another continuing resolution to February, when Democrats take control.
ALASKA: LAST SENATE RACE STILL UNCALLED, RANKED-CHOICE COUNT WEDNESDAY — The Senate’s last uncalled race is Alaska, where the count runs to a ranked-choice tabulation on Nov. 18 if no candidate clears 50% — and the governor’s race there is uncalled too.
SENATE ADVANCES PERMITTING REWRITE 73-25 — The Senate’s first lame-duck vote advanced a sweeping rewrite of federal permitting law, 73-25 — a bill tribal leaders say guts environmental review and tribal consultation, and they are heading to Washington to fight it during the session.
BUSINESS & YOUR MONEY
NVIDIA SLIDES AGAIN AS HSBC CUTS IT TO HOLD, TARGET $170 — Nvidia closed at $162.85, down 2.01%, after HSBC cut it to hold and slashed its price target from $375 to $170, saying the stock will struggle until a permanent CEO is named — with earnings, the first without Huang, due Tuesday.
PPI SEALS DECEMBER HIKE: WHOLESALE PRICES +6.5% ON THE YEAR — October producer prices rose 0.3% on the month and 6.5% on the year — the biggest annual jump since November 2022 — and traders now price a quarter-point December hike at 93.7%, with a half-point move down to 6.3%.
KOSPI GIVES BACK ITS MORNING RALLY, CLOSES DOWN 1% — Seoul’s KOSPI opened 2.05% higher and topped 5,500, then reversed to close at 5,290.53, down 0.98%, as foreign investors sold a net 555 billion won; SK hynix fell 2.47% and Samsung 0.48%, while the KOSDAQ edged up 0.5%.
QUICK HITS
DEMOCRATS LEAD IN SIX OF THE 11 UNCALLED HOUSE RACES
11 HOUSE RACES UNCALLED ACROSS SEVEN STATES
HOUSE DEMS ON TRACK FOR 260-175, LARGEST SINCE WATERGATE
FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
TRUMP DECLARES ATC FAILURE A ‘NATIONAL EMERGENCY’; DUFFY WANTS $50 BILLION — Homeland Security Secretary Mullin said the president has declared the air-traffic failure a national emergency, and Transportation Secretary Duffy upped his ask to $50 billion for a full rebuild — blaming routers overloaded with data in an “incredibly old” system, and noting the FAA had rolled out a new AI airspace tool to all 22 centers just three days earlier.
WHITE HOUSE DENIES HASSETT IS LEAVING — The White House denied a Semafor report that National Economic Council director Kevin Hassett is leaving in the coming weeks — “no factual basis,” an official said — though the report named Treasury Secretary Bessent as a possible successor; last week Trump replaced chief of staff Susie Wiles with Stephen Miller.
SUPREME COURT TO RULE ON TRUMP ASYLUM BAN — The justices agreed Friday to decide the legality of the ban on asylum for migrants who cross the southern border illegally — a federal judge ruled in July 2025 that Trump lacked the authority, and the D.C. Circuit upheld that in April; arguments come in the months ahead, with a ruling by the end of June.
BUSINESS & YOUR MONEY
CHIP ROTATION REVERSES: AMD -8.8%, CISCO -6.2% DESPITE RECORD SALES — Thursday’s buyers of Nvidia’s rivals became Friday’s sellers: AMD fell 8.8% to $534.06, Broadcom 4.8%, Dell 7.2%, and Cisco 6.2% to $95.64 a day after record quarterly revenue of $18.5 billion — while the S&P still finished the week up 2.5%.
MICROSOFT 365 OUTAGE DRAGS ON, 130,000 REPORTS AT PEAK — Microsoft’s Outlook and Teams were disrupted for about 10 hours Thursday as servers went unexpectedly unavailable, with Downdetector logging more than 130,000 Outlook problem reports at the peak; the outage even hit the House of Representatives’ users, and Microsoft says it is not a cyberattack.
GOLD ROUT: -4.5% ON THE WEEK AS 10-YEAR TOPS 5% — Gold is set to finish the week down nearly 4.5% at $3,879, near 13-month lows, as the 10-year Treasury yield hit 5.15% and the dollar touched a 19-month high — with markets pricing a nearly 90% chance of a quarter-point Fed hike in December.
QUICK HITS
FAA’S NEW AI AIRSPACE TOOL ROLLED OUT TO ALL 22 CENTERS TUESDAY
COLLEGE FOOTBALL TEAMS STRANDED BY GROUND STOP
FLIGHTAWARE: 7,365 FRIDAY CANCELLATIONS, 1,758 SATURDAY
FEMA ACTIVATED CENTERS TO HELP STRANDED PASSENGERS
HASSETT WAS IN LINE TO REPLACE POWELL BEFORE WARSH GOT THE JOB
GEOPOLITICS
TRUMP, XI AND PUTIN TO MEET THURSDAY IN SHENZHEN — The White House says Trump will hold the first-ever trilateral meeting with Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin next Thursday on the APEC sidelines in Shenzhen, focused on nuclear arms control — with Iran and North Korea possibly on the table, Ukraine off it, and no agreement expected: “the entry point, the first conversation.”
POPE LEO’S HOMECOMING: 1.5 MILLION GREET HIM IN CHICLAYO — About a million people lined the streets of Chiclayo and 500,000 packed the open-air Mass on the Pampas de Pimentel, where Leo — bishop here for eight years — opened his homily, “What a joy it is to return to Chiclayo!” and thanked the faithful for praying for his health; today he crowns the Immaculate Virgin at the cathedral and flies by helicopter into the Andes.
PARAGUAY: PEÑA HIT WITH NEW CRIMINAL-ASSOCIATION CHARGE — Prosecutors added a criminal-association charge against ousted president Santiago Peña on Friday, alleging he headed a ring of executive-branch and central-bank officials that favored the collapsed Ueno bank — including clandestine meetings with the bank’s owner and envelopes of $200,000 in cash.
THE BANK THAT TOPPLED A PRESIDENT — Ueno, launched in 2021 as a millennial-friendly app, grew to nearly 3 million customers on $850 million in public money — including $355 million from the social-security system — while its owner’s companies got $146 million in insider loans; Peña had held a stake in the holding company until last year.
BUSINESS & YOUR MONEY
NVIDIA’S LOST WEEK: $1.7 TRILLION GONE, LONGEST LOSING STREAK SINCE 2012 — Nvidia closed Friday at $162.85, down 2.01% on the day and 12.75% on the week — its sixth straight weekly decline, the longest since 2012 — with about $1.7 trillion in market value gone since Oct. 2 and the company below a $4 trillion valuation for the first time since July 2025.
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BEIJING AND MOSCOW YET TO CONFIRM TRILATERAL
MUSK EXPECTED ON TRUMP’S ASIA TRIP
POPE DUE AT ST. TURIBIUS SHRINE IN ZAÑA TODAY
SPORTS
NO. 4 UCLA STAYS PERFECT, 22-14 OVER ILLINOIS — Ty Dieffenbach threw for 232 yards and two touchdowns and Aidan Mizell had 176 receiving yards as the Bruins beat Illinois 22-14 at the Rose Bowl — UCLA’s 10-0 start is its first since 1998.
COLORADO 42, HOUSTON 32 — THE FRIDAY UPSET — Houston came in a 7.5-point favorite and left Boulder a 42-32 loser as Colorado piled up the points at Folsom Field.
FLORIDA STATE 16, PITTSBURGH 10 — The Seminoles ground out a 16-10 win at Acrisure Stadium in the Friday night ACC slot.
FAYETTEVILLE STATE ERASES 21-POINT DEFICIT, WINS 31-29 — Fayetteville State erased a 21-point deficit and beat Virginia State 31-29 on a 30-yard field goal with 1:47 left — its sixth straight win, with Division II playoff implications.
SATURDAY’S SLATE: FIVE RANKED-ON-RANKED SHOWDOWNS — Wake Forest-SMU at noon, USC-Indiana at 3:30, Texas-LSU at 7:30, Texas Tech-Oklahoma State at 9:30 and undefeated Utah at Arizona to close the night — three weeks left, and the playoff race is wide open.
TRAVEL
VIENNA’S CHRISTMAS MARKETS ARE OPEN — Vienna’s Rathausplatz market opened Friday, Nov. 13, with its ice rink running to Jan. 6; Schönbrunn has been open since Nov. 6 — the season’s first big markets are officially underway.
THANKSGIVING’S BUSIEST AIRPORTS — AND SMARTER ALTERNATIVES — AAA expects about 6 million domestic flyers and 82 million travelers overall; the worst days are the Tuesday and Wednesday before and the Sunday after — with smaller-airport swaps for Atlanta, O’Hare and DFW.
NEW ENGLAND’S 11 MOST CHARMING SMALL TOWNS — Woodstock, Ogunquit, Conway, Stowe and seven more — fall color, old buildings, lobster shacks that stay open into November and the Kancamagus Highway in full gold.
12 COZY CALIFORNIA TOWNS FOR A LATE FALL GETAWAY — Nevada City’s maples, Julian’s apple harvest, Carmel’s storybook cottages and Ojai’s pink-moment sunsets — November gives these Gold Country and coastal towns a different personality.
11 BEST PLACES TO TRAVEL IN NOVEMBER — Kyoto’s autumn maples, Chiang Mai’s lantern festival Nov. 23-25, Dubai’s sunshine, Cape Town’s spring coast and Vienna’s early markets — November is one of the year’s most underrated travel months.
FOOD
INA GARTEN’S 7 TURKEY RECIPES, RANKED — All seven earned 5/5, but the Roasted Turkey Roulade takes the crown — it has graced four Thanksgivings since 2017 — with the make-ahead roast turkey and the truffle-butter bird close behind.
ALEXANDRA’S THANKSGIVING MENU 2026 — Dry-brined turkey, classic bread stuffing, potatoes five ways, sweet potato casserole, all the sauces and a pile of pies — with a full countdown timeline so nothing collides on the day.
SUNSET’S NOVEMBER RECIPES — A spatchcocked Red Boat holiday turkey with gravy, slow-cooker split-pea soup from the smoked leg, and leftovers tostadas — the month’s roundup covers the feast and the weeknights around it.
BON APPÉTIT’S 2026 THANKSGIVING: GRAVY-BRAISED TURKEY — The test kitchen’s answer to dry white meat is a gravy-braised turkey that cooks the bird and deepens the gravy in the same vessel, plus cheesy brussels sprouts and a cranberry meringue pie to close.
10 TRENDING THANKSGIVING RECIPES TO MAKE AT HOME — Garlic-herb-butter roast turkey, creamy pumpkin soup, green bean casserole and classic pumpkin pie — with the thaw math up front: 24 hours in the fridge for every 4 to 5 pounds.
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