The Evening File — The Desk’s Report
The Airlines Cancel More Than 4,000 Flights on the Recovery Day With Full Schedules Promised by Sunday Night, Three Presidents Are Expected in Shenzhen on Thursday With No Agenda Agreed, and Alaska Spends Saturday at 138,240 to 127,828 With the Call Still Withheld
The evening file: a recovery counted three ways and promised whole by Sunday night; a three-president meeting announced and without an agenda; a team named in Dublin and a subject Moscow says was never discussed; a radar still claimed and still denied, and seven conditions unanswered; a court that took the asylum case and a Medicaid clock that moved six months; a count that did not move; a Prime Minister in Manila making progress and no deal; and a week that closed up on Wall Street while its largest company prepared to report without its founder.
The Evening in Brief: A Recovery Promised Whole by Sunday Night, a Meeting Announced Without an Agenda, and a Count That Did Not Move
Saturday was the recovery day, and by evening the recovery had a promise attached to it. The airlines cancelled more than 4,000 flights and delayed 3,000 more in the United States in the wire’s count, filed below, as the system worked off Friday’s nationwide ground stop; USA Today’s count, filed below, put more than 10,000 flights delayed or cancelled on the day together, and the Administration’s administrator estimated as many as 5,000 of the day’s 41,000 scheduled flights cancelled, with full schedule integrity promised by the airlines for the close of business on Sunday. The cause, in the Secretary’s Saturday account, was a contractor’s copper-to-fiber conversion at a remote location and a new router that flooded the network—not a cyberattack, not an artificial intelligence tool. Abroad, the day’s largest filing is a meeting that does not yet exist on paper: the three presidents in Shenzhen on Thursday, announced by the White House on Friday, with no agenda or format agreed in the wire’s account filed below. Europe’s team for the Ukraine talks stands named at the level of national security advisers, and Moscow’s two voices stand apart: the Kremlin will decide when Europe’s intentions are clear, and the Foreign Ministry says the subject was never discussed. In Bahrain nothing moved: the radar stands claimed and denied, and Tehran’s seven conditions stand unanswered. In Washington the Supreme Court’s Friday grant in the asylum case drew its first answers, the Medicaid enforcement clock moved six months, and Alaska produced no new total—138,240 to 127,828, the call withheld, the tabulation on November 18.
The day’s remaining filings are these. Prime Minister Carney, in Manila, reported progress toward a trade deal with Washington and no agreement, with the auto industry as Canada’s stated condition, in the Associated Press account filed below. The International Criminal Court’s closure of the American line of its Afghanistan inquiry stands appealed by its own prosecutors. France counted a fifth weekend of riots, with 121 arrests by 1800 in Paris. Spain’s campaign spent its first Saturday in Palma and on the road, its mean of polls unmoved. And Wall Street, which has no Saturday session, left Friday’s closes standing as the week’s verdict: the broad market up on the week, the chips sold on Friday, and the largest company in the file reporting on Tuesday without its founder. The desk takes the files in that order.
The Airlines at Evening: More Than 4,000 Cancelled, a Router Named, and Sunday Night as the Promise
The recovery was measured on Saturday in the thousands, against the hundreds the overnight file had expected, and the evening’s counts still do not agree with each other. The midday edition carried more than 3,700 cancellations by 1200 in the wire’s count. By evening the wire’s Saturday account, filed below, stood at more than 4,000 cancelled and 3,000 more delayed, with Delta, United and American each cancelling about 20 percent of their flights and JetBlue 40 percent. USA Today’s account, filed below, counts the day differently—more than 10,000 flights delayed or cancelled together—and names Atlanta, Chicago O’Hare, New York Kennedy and Dallas-Fort Worth as the hardest hit. The administrator’s own estimate, in the same account, is the day’s third measure: as many as 5,000 of 41,000 scheduled flights cancelled while crews and aircraft were repositioned. The three figures count different things at different hours, and the desk prints them apart, as it printed Friday’s three counts of Friday apart. What is single-valued is the direction: departures ran all day, no second stop was ordered, and the promise on the record is the airlines’ own, carried in the USA Today account—full schedule integrity by the close of business on Sunday.
The cause gained its mechanism on Saturday. Secretary Duffy said at his press conference that the contractor L3Harris was working at a very remote location to convert a line from copper to fiber; a router that was installed began flooding others on the system, in the USA Today account—instability in radar and communications beginning at 3:36 p.m. on Friday, the stop issued shortly before 4:00, and the skies reopened at 8:15 p.m. The Secretary said an artificial intelligence scheduling tool was not to blame and a cyberattack was not to blame; Secretary Mullin, in the Daily Caller account filed below, repeatedly emphasized there was no indication of a nefarious attack. The first considered responses arrived in the afternoon, and they are filed in the Arizona live file below in the order they came: at 1313 Eastern, Representative Stanton, who sits on the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee and its aviation subcommittee, urged the Secretary to testify under oath; at 1519, L3Harris said it was helping investigate the outage in the network it has been working to modernize. The money ask stands where Friday left it—$50 billion for the air traffic control system, against the $30.1 billion the White House put in writing on Thursday—and one passenger fact stands in the wire’s account: because the Administration was responsible for the delays, the airlines are not required to compensate the stranded. Friday’s totals, for the record the evening closes, stand as the morning corrected them: nearly 10,000 cancelled in the wire’s count of Friday, 9,138 cancelled and 7,068 delayed in the tracker’s, and 9,100 cancelled with 24,500 delayed in the weather service’s.
Shenzhen at Evening: Three Presidents Expected Thursday, No Agenda, and a Host Described as Wary
The week’s largest appointment was announced on Friday and spent Saturday acquiring descriptions, not an agenda. The White House said on Friday that President Trump will meet President Putin of Russia and President Xi of China at the end of his trip to China next week, on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum in Shenzhen, and that he will discuss reducing nuclear weapons, in the accounts the midday and overnight editions carried. Saturday’s fullest account is the wire’s, filed below, and its first fact is a negative: down-to-the-wire negotiations over the meeting have not yet yielded an agenda or a format, according to two people familiar with the planning. Its second fact is a distribution of purposes. President Putin sees a chance to secure an agreement to end the war in Ukraine on his terms. President Trump, after his party’s electoral losses, sees a moment for the history books, with possible movement toward a three-way agreement on nuclear arms control. President Xi, who hosts, faces an unpredictable gathering full of risks, in the wire’s phrase, and is described throughout the account as the wary party.
The considered responses, such as they are at this hour, run against the announcement’s size. A senior Administration official said the United States does not expect to get to any kind of agreement, and a second American official said on Friday that the President was not likely to raise the war in Ukraine and that three-way talks were not the proper forum to do so—which removes, in advance, the Russian subject from the Russian president’s own meeting, in the wire’s account. On the American subject, the response came from the host’s side of the table: Chinese academics interviewed by the wire called three-way nuclear talks a nonstarter for Beijing, on arithmetic the account prints plainly—Russia and the United States each possess more than 5,000 nuclear warheads, and China has around 500, although it is rapidly expanding its arsenal. China’s own official word, in the account, is that it is in communication with relevant parties regarding a meeting between the three heads of state, and no more. The comparison the wire’s headline carries is to Yalta in 1945, where the American, British and Soviet leaders formalized spheres of influence; the account notes the comparison is drawn particularly in Russia. The desk records the meeting as expected on Thursday, November 19, in Shenzhen, with its three purposes stated by three capitals and its agenda unwritten at 1800 on Saturday. Nothing in the file gives the meeting a time, a duration, or a communiqué.
Dublin at Evening: Advisers in the Chairs, a Ceasefire Named as the First Priority, and a Subject Moscow Says Never Came Up
Europe’s team gained its level on Saturday, and Moscow’s answer gained its second voice. The team named in Dublin on Friday—the Union’s institutions and the five countries, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy and Poland—will sit at the level of national security advisers, in the Meduza account of the Bloomberg report filed below: the advisers will take part at the technical level, a senior European official said, and Europe has yet to appoint representatives for negotiations at the highest level. The Commission President’s Saturday statement, carried in the accounts filed below, names the European order of business: a ceasefire first, then security guarantees and postwar reconstruction, with the foreign policy chief’s November 12 position standing beside it, that a ceasefire should come before negotiations on a peace agreement. The chief’s own claim to the envoy’s chair, made on Friday, stands unanswered by the Dublin decision, which named institutions and countries and no person.
Against the team stand the two Moscow statements, and the evening’s work is to keep them separate, because they do not say the same thing. The Kremlin spokesman’s position, from Friday, is conditional: no decision has been made on an expanded format, and a concrete decision could come once the Kremlin understands the Europeans’ true intentions and willingness to help advance the peace process. The Foreign Ministry’s position, in the Zot account filed below, is a denial of the premise: spokeswoman Zakharova told the German press agency that, as far as the Ministry was aware, the issue of European representation was not discussed during the Moscow talks at all, and that no Foreign Ministry representatives were present—against envoy Kushner’s Thursday statement that President Putin had voiced willingness to have the Europeans join. The Institute’s November 13 assessment, filed below, reads the two statements together and adds the aide’s: Moscow, in its reading, will accept European participation on a new European security architecture and not on resolving the war in Ukraine, and hopes the Europeans will agree the parameters of that architecture, with discussions with the Americans to begin at once. The Baltic reading of the Dublin list, carried in the overnight file, stands as the team’s first internal response: Poland is the only eastern-flank state at the table, and the Baltic states and Finland sit in it only through the Union’s institutions. No date for a next round stands in any account at 1800.
Bahrain at Evening: The Pair of Sentences Restated, Seven Conditions Unanswered, and the Mediators Still Travelling
The Gulf file produced no new exchange on Saturday, and the evening’s entry is the state of the two claims and the one proposal. The Guards’ claim stands as made on Friday: its aerospace force targeted and destroyed the American early-warning radar on the island of Bahrain, in retaliation for the strike on the telecommunications tower in Sirik County. Central Command’s denial stands as made on Friday and restated in Saturday’s accounts, including the Radio Free Europe account filed below: two one-way attack drones were launched toward Bahrain, both were shot down by American forces, and there were no injuries and no damage. Neither side has produced evidence the other accepts, Manama has not spoken in the file, and the desk knows of no third account. The war around the claim stands where the week left it: the naval blockade in force, the strait’s traffic the subject of a mediation, and no ceasefire in effect.
The proposal stands beside the claim, unanswered. Tehran’s seven conditions for a ceasefire and the reopening of the strait were carried to Washington through Qatari mediators, in the parliament speaker’s account to Al Jazeera carried in the Zot account filed below—an end to the blockade, the lifting of sanctions and an explicit announcement of an end to the war among them, with the frozen assets and a halt to fighting on all fronts named in the other accounts—and the speaker’s word is that the ball is now in the American court. The American court’s last stated position is the President’s of November 12, restated in Saturday’s accounts: “We don’t need a deal with Iran. Those days have long since passed,” with the Vice President directed off the file to domestic work. The mediators, in the accounts, are Qatari in the speaker’s telling and Qatari and Pakistani together in the wire summaries; Qatar is described in one Saturday account as still trying to negotiate an interim agreement that would restore traffic through the strait while leaving the larger questions open. Tehran’s two voices, noted in the Radio Free Europe account, stand in the file unresolved: the Foreign Minister saying Iran will negotiate, and the security chief saying there will be no negotiations until America accepts the seven conditions. At 1800 the desk records a claim, a denial, a proposal and a refusal to need one, and nothing dated next in the Gulf except the mediation itself.
Washington at Evening: The Court Takes the Asylum Case, the Medicaid Clock Moves Six Months, and Congress Is Out Until Monday
Washington’s Saturday was a day of answers to Friday’s filings, taken in a capital whose legislature is out of town. Both chambers are out today, in the Washington day account filed below: the Senate returns Monday at 3:00 p.m. with two votes, the House returns Tuesday, the Supreme Court issues orders Monday from Friday’s conference, and the President’s public schedule listed executive time only. The Friday filing that drew the fullest Saturday answers is the Court’s grant in Mullin v. Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services, No. 26-239. The grant, limited to the first two questions in the government’s petition, puts before the justices the lawfulness of Proclamation 10888—the January 20, 2025 proclamation that suspended entry at the southern border and cut off access to asylum—and the question whether the statute bars the classwide relief the district court entered; the third question, on the class definition, was not taken, in the practitioner account filed below. The plaintiffs’ answer, in the Justice Center’s release filed below, states the record below: the district court and the Court of Appeals both ruled for the plaintiffs, holding the proclamation contrary to the laws Congress enacted, and argument is expected in the spring of 2027. The grant itself decides nothing and changes nothing on the ground: the asylum parts of the judgment have been on hold since August 2025 and remain in effect as a bar while the case is pending, in both accounts.
The second Friday filing is administrative and its clock is the news. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced on November 13 an optional six-month hold-harmless period on the new Medicaid work requirements: states that ask by December 11 may postpone coverage terminations and denials tied to the requirements until July 1, 2027, instead of January 1, while still assessing on January 1 whether enrollees meet the 80-hour monthly standard or qualify for an exclusion, in the PoliAlert account filed below. States ready to enforce may do so from January. The first considered response, in the Cancer Action Network’s release filed below, calls the delay encouraging and asks Congress for more: a full delay of the requirements in all states for two years. The same release records a mixed ruling the same day in Massachusetts v. Oz, the 25-state challenge to the interim final rule implementing the requirements. The requirements themselves—80 hours a month of work, community service or at-least-half-time education for most expansion enrollees aged 19 to 65—are unchanged; what moved is the date on which a failure to document them can cost a person coverage, and only in states that ask.
The Count at Evening: No New Total on Saturday, Two Callers Against the Wire, and November 18 as the Next Date
Alaska filed nothing new on Saturday, and the evening’s count entry is the state of the disagreement about a count that stands still. The official total stands as Friday night left it, at about 7:15 p.m. Alaska time: Ms. Peltola 138,240 votes, 49.84 percent; Senator Sullivan 127,828, 46.09 percent; Mr. Heikes 5,885; the second Mr. Sullivan 4,560; and 855 write-ins, on 277,368 reported, with the wire estimating 96 percent counted, fewer than 12,000 ballots left, and no call, in the Juneau account and the full table filed below. Ms. Peltola stands 445 votes short of the outright majority that would settle the race without a tabulation. Against the wire’s withheld call stand two calls made elsewhere, recorded in Saturday’s accounts: a vote-counting service and a partisan outlet have projected Ms. Peltola the winner, on the arithmetic that her 10,412-vote lead exceeds what the remaining ballots can plausibly return and that the ranked-choice projections from the division’s data produce her win in any case. Senator Sullivan’s campaign’s stated position, given to The New York Times on Friday night and standing at 1800, is that it is waiting for every ballot to be counted.
The governorship, by contrast, is called and dated: Mr. Kreiss-Tomkins, at 50.8 percent in the wire’s call of Friday evening, takes office on December 7, in the accounts the midday edition carried. The Senate arithmetic the race completes stands in the Washington day account filed below: 55 seats called for the Democrats, 44 for the Republicans, and Alaska alone uncalled—a 56th Democratic seat if the projection holds, and the ninth flip of the midterms in that event. The dates ahead are fixed and near: overseas ballots may arrive until November 18, which is also the day of the ranked-choice tabulation, and the target for certification is November 25. The desk records, as it has recorded since election night, that a lead is not a call, that two organizations have now called what the wire has not, and that the next fact in this file has a date on it.
Nvidia and the Week at Evening: Friday’s Closes Stand, the Week Stands Up, and Tuesday Is the Next Fact
Saturday has no cash session, so the markets’ evening entry is Friday’s close read as the week’s verdict, and the first considered readings of it. The closes stand as the evening editions printed them: the S&P 500 down 0.40 percent at 7,561.67, the Nasdaq Composite down 0.91 percent at 25,136.27, the Dow up 0.10 percent at 52,347.55, and Nvidia down 2.01 percent at $162.85. Read by the week, in the HelixValue account filed below, the same tape is up: the S&P 2.5 percent on the week, the Nasdaq 2.3, the Dow 2.1, with Friday’s selling concentrated in semiconductors—five of eight sectors rose on the day—and the ten-year yield ending the week at 5.15 percent, its biggest weekly rise in 19 months. The producer print stands between the two readings: 0.3 percent on the month against 0.4 expected, and 6.5 percent on the year, the highest since November 2022, with the core measure without trade services at 0.5 percent for a second month in the midday file and the December increase priced at 89.4 percent in one reading and 89.7 in another. The housing print of the week belongs in the same ledger: existing home sales fell 5.5 percent in October to a 3.75 million annual rate, the lowest since August 2010, on contracts signed when the 30-year mortgage rate reached 7.40 percent, in the Reuters account filed below.
For the company at the center of the week, Saturday produced analysis, not news, and the desk files the two fullest pieces as the first considered responses to the resignation. The Leon analysis, filed below, measures the gap the week opened: about $1.2 trillion of market value gone between the October 28 close and November 12, on a constant share count, while the fiscal 2028 consensus estimate stood essentially unchanged—a discount, in the writer’s reading, for leadership, governance and execution risk, with a Hold retained and a target cut to about $173. The Substack analysis, filed below, argues that Tuesday’s expected beat—about $108.7 billion of revenue against $108 billion guided, in its figures; $109.0 billion and $2.48 in the Leon note’s—answers the quarter and not the file: $530.5 billion of commitments and guarantees across three footnote tables, and a first earnings call to be led by the interim chief, Ms. Kress, who as finance chief signed the filings in question. The company’s value at Friday’s close is itself a cocked hat: below $4 trillion in the news accounts, $4.19 trillion in the data service’s Saturday snapshot, both printed from the same $162.85 close. Tuesday, November 17, after the bell, is the next dated fact, and the House testimony expected before Thanksgiving stands behind it.
The Day Elsewhere at Evening: Progress and No Deal in Manila, an Appeal in The Hague, and a Fifth Weekend in France
Three filings complete the day whole. In Manila, Prime Minister Carney told reporters on Saturday that he had held a lengthy, substantive conversation with President Trump before leaving for Europe and Asia—with the Trade Representative and the new chief of staff on the call—and that the two countries are making progress toward a trade deal after the August collapse, with the possibility of a bilateral deal and no agreement yet, in the Associated Press account filed below. His condition is stated as plainly as his progress: Canada will not accept a deal that undermines its auto industry, which has been battered by the tariffs—50 percent on about $20 billion of Canadian goods, imposed after the collapse and answered in kind in September. In the same appearance he announced that Canada had substantially concluded free-trade negotiations with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations and completed separate negotiations with the Philippines, which is the shape of the visit: progress claimed on the American file and signatures advanced on the Asian ones.
In The Hague, the International Criminal Court’s decision to close the original Afghanistan investigation—the line that could have examined American troops and intelligence personnel, dormant since 2021, and the affiliate inquiry beside it—stands made public on Friday and appealed by the prosecutor’s office, in the Zot account filed below. The judges’ stated ground is capacity: the prosecution had not shown it could effectively investigate the allegations apart from the Taliban inquiry. What stays open is the separate case on Taliban actions since 2021, and the four arrest warrants for Taliban leaders stand unaffected. The decision is not a finding on any alleged crime, and the appeal has no date in the file. In France, the fifth weekend of riots ran through Saturday in several cities, with fires set and masked protesters clashing with police, in The Sun’s account filed below: at 6 p.m. in Paris the Interior Ministry counted 121 arrests across the country. The Saturday demonstrations were against the high cost of living, joined by marches against police violence and violence against children, eleven months of Saturdays short of a presidential election in the spring of 2027—the account’s framing, printed as its own.
Spain at Evening: Palma in the Rain of Polls, 75 and 176 Restated, and a Debate on Monday
Spain’s campaign spent its first Saturday as it spent its first day, on the two numbers its Prime Minister carries from stop to stop. In Palma de Mallorca, before a crowd the video accounts put at nearly 5,000 at Son Fusteret, Mr. Sánchez rallied with the Balearic candidate, Ms. Armengol, and restated the call in the Demócrata account filed below: 75 percent participation on November 29 and the 176 seats of an absolute majority—to vote, to win, and to govern for four more years—with the argument that only that turnout stops a government of Mr. Feijóo and Mr. Abascal. He also asked Mr. Feijóo, in the day’s accounts, to accept the result of the election in advance. The paper’s mean of polls, printed beside the account and dated November 14, stands unmoved from the midday file: of the latest study from each of 15 institutes, the Popular Party 31.4 percent, the Socialists 26.9, Vox 19.1, Frente Amplio 6.4 and ERC 2.5. Against the mean stand the divergent houses the week has already filed—a survey for a conservative daily giving the Popular Party a clear advantage, and the state survey projecting a Socialist lead—and the opening survey’s seat arithmetic of 190 for the two parties of the right together, above the 176 line both campaigns are arguing about. The two leaders debate on Monday, November 16; the campaign runs to November 27 and the country votes on November 29.
The Cocked Hat
Where the evening’s bearings do not meet, the desk prints the triangle. On Saturday’s flights: more than 4,000 cancelled and 3,000 delayed in the wire’s count, more than 10,000 delayed or cancelled together in the newspaper’s, and as many as 5,000 of 41,000 cancelled in the administrator’s estimate—three measures of one recovery, at three hours, counting three different things. On the Shenzhen meeting: a discussion of reducing nuclear weapons, in the White House’s announcement, against a nonstarter, in the host’s academics’ word to the wire, and no agreement expected, in the senior American official’s. On Europe’s seat: willing to give it a try, in the envoy’s account of the President of Russia; no decision until intentions are clear, in his spokesman’s; and never discussed, in his Foreign Ministry’s. On Bahrain: a radar destroyed, in the Guards’ statement, against two drones shot down with no damage, in Central Command’s, with no evidence produced by either side that the other accepts. On Alaska’s winner: projected by two organizations on Saturday’s file, and uncalled by the wire on the same figures. On Nvidia’s value: below $4 trillion in the news accounts and $4.19 trillion in the data service’s snapshot, from one $162.85 close; and on Tuesday’s expectation, $108.7 billion in one analysis and $109.0 billion in another. On Spain: the Socialists at 26.9 percent in the mean of fifteen institutes and ahead in the state survey. Against the triangle, the evening’s single-valued facts are these: departures ran all day Saturday with no second stop, and full schedule integrity is promised for Sunday’s close; the Shenzhen meeting is expected Thursday with no agenda agreed; Europe’s team will sit as national security advisers, and Moscow has not accepted it; the seven conditions stand unanswered and the blockade stands in force; the Supreme Court has taken the asylum case on two questions, with argument expected in the spring; a state that asks by December 11 may hold its Medicaid terminations until July 1, 2027; Alaska stands at 138,240 to 127,828, uncalled, with the tabulation on November 18; Canada reports progress and no deal; the court in The Hague has closed the original Afghanistan case and its prosecutors have appealed; France counted 121 arrests by 1800 in Paris; and Friday’s closes stand as the week’s last tape. The midnight edition collects at 0000.
The Clippings Filed With This Edition
Everything the desk read for the report above, clipped and filed as a bureau files it. Each item is stamped subjective—a source with a position, printed because it is useful—and described by what it says. The desk’s report is the only item in this edition stamped objective. 25 items.
Reuters, carried by WIXX — more than 4,000 Saturday cancellations and 3,000 delays, and the contractor’s copper-to-fiber work
Major airlines on Saturday canceled more than 4,000 flights in the United States and delayed 3,000 more as the country recovered from Friday’s nationwide ground stop. Delta, United and American each canceled about 20 percent of their flights and JetBlue 40 percent. Secretary Duffy said a contractor, L3Harris, was converting a remote location from copper to fiber when the failure began at 3:36 p.m. on Friday, and that neither a cyberattack nor an artificial intelligence scheduling tool was to blame. Because the Administration was responsible for the delays, airlines are not required to compensate stranded passengers.
USA Today — more than 10,000 flights delayed or canceled on November 14, and full integrity promised by Sunday’s close
More than 10,000 flights into or out of the United States had been delayed or canceled on November 14 by the paper’s count, with Atlanta, Chicago O’Hare, New York Kennedy and Dallas-Fort Worth among the hardest hit. Administrator Bedford estimated that as many as 5,000 of the day’s 41,000 scheduled flights would be canceled as crews and aircraft were repositioned, and said the airlines believed they would have full schedule integrity by the close of business on Sunday.
The Arizona Republic, live file — a call for the Secretary to testify under oath, and the contractor helping the investigation
The live file records the afternoon’s responses in order: at 1313 Eastern, Representative Greg Stanton of Arizona, a member of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee and its aviation subcommittee, urged Secretary Duffy to testify under oath on the ground stop; at 1519, L3Harris said it had been working with the Administration to modernize the communications network and was helping investigate the outage. The file also carries the morning’s figures at Phoenix Sky Harbor, where American had 93 cancellations at 1225.
Daily Caller — the stop lifted at 2015, and the Homeland Security Secretary’s word that it was not a nefarious attack
The Administration lifted the nationwide ground stop at approximately 8:15 p.m. on Friday. More than 3,500 aircraft were in the air when it was issued; pilots and controllers brought the number in the airspace down to under 400 by 8 p.m., and exceptions were made for medical, life-saving cargo and law enforcement flights. Secretary Mullin repeatedly emphasized that there was no indication of a cyberattack or terror threat. The disruption canceled more than 4,000 flights and delayed more than 10,000 others in the tracker’s count, stranding an estimated 1.5 million passengers in the data firm’s estimate.
Reuters — a new ‘Yalta’ questioned, and a host wary of the meeting he is to hold
The world’s three most powerful leaders could sit down together next week in Shenzhen, at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum, to discuss the wars in Ukraine and Iran, nuclear weapons and artificial intelligence. Down-to-the-wire negotiations have yielded no agenda or format. President Putin sees a chance to end the Ukraine war on his terms; President Trump, after his party’s electoral losses, sees a moment for the history books and possible movement toward a three-way nuclear agreement; President Xi, the host, faces an unpredictable gathering full of risks. A senior Administration official said no agreement of any kind is expected, and Chinese academics told the wire that three-way nuclear talks are a nonstarter for Beijing, which holds about 500 warheads against more than 5,000 each for Russia and the United States.
Zot News — the Foreign Ministry says the issue was not discussed in Moscow, against the envoy’s account
Europe named its representatives for potential talks between Russia and Ukraine, and Moscow questioned the bloc’s role. Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told the German press agency that, as far as the Ministry was aware, the issue of European representation had not been discussed during the Moscow talks at all, and no Foreign Ministry representatives were present—directly contradicting the envoy’s statement that President Putin had voiced willingness to have European representatives join. The Kremlin said it needs to understand Europe’s real intentions first.
Institute for the Study of War — the November 13 assessment, and the two subjects Moscow will and will not discuss with Europe
The assessment records the week’s statements in sequence: the envoy’s November 12 statement that Ukraine and Russia had agreed to expand the next round to include European representatives on both territorial questions and the broader European security arrangements; the spokeswoman’s November 13 claim that the subject was not discussed with the envoys; and the Kremlin spokesman’s position that Russia can discuss European involvement only once the Europeans’ real intentions are clear. The assessment’s reading is that Moscow will accept European participation on a new European security architecture, not on resolving the war in Ukraine, and continues to insist on its 2021 demand.
Meduza, carried by Europe Says — national security advisers to represent the continent, and no representatives yet at the highest level
National security advisers from the Union, Germany, France, the United Kingdom, Italy and Poland will represent Europe in the upcoming talks, in the wire report the account carries. The leaders made the decision at the Dublin summit of November 12 and 13; a senior European official said the advisers would take part at the technical level, and Europe has yet to appoint representatives for negotiations at the highest level. The account prints the three Moscow positions side by side: the envoy’s expansion, the spokesman’s no objection with a decision to come, and the Foreign Ministry’s statement that the subject had not come up at all.
Zot News — the negotiator redirected, seven conditions through the mediators, and the ball in the American court
The Guards said they destroyed an American early-warning radar in Bahrain, hours after the President declared that no deal with Tehran was needed and ordered the Vice President to shift his focus from the Iran negotiations to domestic work. The parliament speaker and top negotiator told Al Jazeera that Tehran has sent a clear proposal for a ceasefire and the reopening of the strait through Qatari mediators, laying out seven conditions including an end to the naval blockade, the lifting of sanctions and an explicit announcement of an end to the war, and that the ball is now in the American court. Mediation by Qatar and Pakistan is continuing in the account.
Shabtab News, from Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty — the denial restated, and the two readings inside Tehran
Central Command denied the Guards’ claim: two one-way attack drones were launched toward Bahrain and both were shot down, with no injuries and no damage. The account carries the President’s November 12 words—“We don’t need a deal with Iran. Those days have long since passed”—and an analyst’s observation that Tehran speaks in two voices, the Foreign Minister saying Iran will negotiate while the security chief says there will be no negotiations until America accepts the seven conditions, which include ending the blockade, releasing frozen assets and halting fighting on all fronts.
Immigration Analytics — the grant in the asylum case, limited to the first two questions
The Supreme Court on Friday, November 13, agreed to decide the legality of the border asylum ban imposed on the President’s first day back in office, granting the government’s petition in Mullin v. Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services, No. 26-239, limited to Questions 1 and 2. The first asks whether Proclamation 10888 and its implementing guidance are lawful; the second whether the statute bars the classwide relief the district court entered. The third question, on the class definition, was not taken. The grant changes nothing on the ground today: the asylum parts of the lower-court judgment have been on hold since August 2025 and stay that way.
National Immigrant Justice Center — the plaintiffs’ answer to the grant, and the lower courts’ rulings stated
The Center, one of the organizations that brought the suit on behalf of a nationwide class and three legal service providers, states that the district court and the Court of Appeals both rejected the proclamation, ruling for the plaintiffs because the action is contrary to the laws Congress enacted to ensure that people receive an opportunity to have their asylum claims heard. Argument is expected in the spring of 2027 in the release.
PoliAlert — the work requirements delayed until July 2027, and what states must still do on January 1
The Administration is giving states six additional months before they must begin enforcing the new Medicaid work requirements. The Centers announced the extension on November 13: states may postpone coverage penalties until July 1, 2027, instead of January 1, but must still begin checking eligibility under the new rules on January 1, and states may choose to enforce earlier. States seeking the flexibility have been asked to submit requests by December 11, 2026. The account carries the early results from Nebraska, which began implementing the requirements in May 2026.
American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network — the delay welcomed, and a two-year delay asked of Congress
The Network’s president called the six-month delay in coverage terminations and denials encouraging and urged Congress to act quickly to delay the work requirements in all states for the next two years. The release also records a mixed ruling the same day in Massachusetts v. Oz, the case brought by 25 states and the District of Columbia challenging the interim final rule implementing the requirements.
Juneau Independent — 49.84 percent, fewer than 12,000 ballots left, and a campaign waiting for every ballot
Ms. Peltola leads Senator Sullivan by 10,412 votes with fewer than 12,000 remaining to be counted, in the results released Friday night at about 7:15 p.m.: 49.84 percent to 46.09 percent, with the wire estimating 96 percent counted and not projecting a winner. A spokesman for Senator Sullivan told The New York Times on Friday night that the campaign is still waiting for every ballot to be counted. The account notes that the lead far exceeds the 1.64 percent cast for the second Mr. Sullivan on the ballot, and that projections from the division’s data produce a Ms. Peltola win in the ranked-choice tabulation if she does not reach a majority of first choices.
Fish 4 News — the last uncalled Senate contest, the full table, and the dates of tabulation and certification
Ms. Peltola leads Senator Sullivan by 10,412 votes in the last uncalled Senate race of the midterms: 138,240 votes, 49.8 percent, against 127,828, 46.1 percent, with Mr. Heikes at 5,885, the second Mr. Sullivan at 4,560 and 855 write-ins, on 277,368 reported. The totals are unofficial and reflect the state’s November 13 update, not a certified result. The tabulation is scheduled for November 18 and the target date for certification is November 25.
Brandon Leon — $1.2 trillion taken off the company while the estimates barely changed, and a Hold at about $173
The analysis, revised November 13, measures the event: at the November 12 close of $166.19 the company was worth about $1.2 trillion less than at the October 28 close, on a constant share count, while the fiscal 2028 consensus estimate was essentially unchanged. The writer retains a Hold and cuts his probability-weighted target to about $173 from about $250. The board accepted the resignation on November 11, made the finance chief interim chief executive, named the company’s first Chair and began a search open to internal and external candidates; no reason was given. Results are due Tuesday, November 17, against a consensus the note prints at $109.0 billion and $2.48.
USTA Stockman, Substack — why a beat on Tuesday will not solve it, and the $530.5 billion in the footnote
Wall Street expects roughly $108.7 billion in revenue against $108 billion in company guidance, with margins near 74 percent, and the numbers will almost certainly clear the bar, in the writer’s account. The report will not answer the questions that matter: $530.5 billion in commitments and guarantees printed across three tables in a footnote of the quarterly filing without a combined total, the supply and capacity commitments that rose $160 billion in one quarter, and a call to be led for the first time without Mr. Huang, by the interim chief who signed the filings. Until the company resolves four uncertainties, Tuesday’s report is noise, in the writer’s word.
HelixValue, Substack — the week the company lost its founder, and the market bounced anyway
The week’s closes are printed whole: the S&P 500 at 7,561.67, down 0.40 percent on Friday and up 2.5 percent on the week; the Nasdaq at 25,136.27, down 0.91 and up 2.3; the Dow at 52,347.55, up 0.10 and up 2.1. Friday’s selling was concentrated in semiconductors—five of eight sectors rose—with the chipmaker down another 2.01 percent to $162.85. The ten-year yield ended the week at 5.15 percent, its biggest weekly rise in 19 months, and the dollar closed near a 19-month high. Producer prices rose 0.3 percent on the month and 6.5 percent on the year.
Reuters, carried by 985 The River — home sales at the lowest in more than 16 years, and the rate that did it
Existing home sales fell 5.5 percent in October to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 3.75 million units, the lowest since August 2010, against a forecast of 3.85 million; sales fell 8.8 percent on the year. The sales counted closings of contracts signed in August and September, when the 30-year fixed mortgage rate rose above 7 percent and reached 7.40 percent by mid-September—a rise of 142 basis points since the February attacks, in the mortgage agency’s data. Inventory rose 1.3 percent to 1.59 million units.
The Associated Press, carried by Europe Says — progress toward a trade deal, and the auto industry as the condition
Prime Minister Carney said Saturday in Manila that he had a lengthy conversation with the President and senior officials before leaving for Europe and Asia, and that the two countries are making progress toward a trade deal after negotiations collapsed in August. Canada had substantially concluded free-trade negotiations with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations and completed separate negotiations with the Philippines, he announced. He said Canada would not accept a deal that undermines its auto industry. Washington imposed 50 percent tariffs on about $20 billion in Canadian goods after the August collapse.
Zot News — the court halts the American line of the Afghanistan inquiry, and the prosecutors appeal
The International Criminal Court has halted its investigation into alleged crimes by American troops in Afghanistan and closed its inquiry into the affiliate there, focusing instead on Taliban actions since 2021. The decision, made public on Friday, cites significant limitations to the prosecution’s ability to conduct its investigations and secure evidence. The inquiry opened in 2020 and covered alleged crimes by all sides dating back to 2002; the then-prosecutor announced in 2021 that he would deprioritise the American line. The prosecutor’s office has filed an appeal. Four arrest warrants for Taliban leaders stand.
The Sun — a fifth weekend of riots in France, and 121 arrests by 1800 in Paris
France erupted into riots for a fifth weekend, with fires set in several cities and masked protesters clashing with police. At 6 p.m. the Interior Ministry said there had been 121 arrests across the country so far, following disturbances in numerous cities and towns. The Saturday demonstrations were against the high cost of living, joined by marches against police violence and violence against children. The unrest comes as France prepares for a presidential election in the spring of 2027.
Demócrata — 75 percent and 176 seats in Palma, and the mean of fifteen institutes at 26.9
The Prime Minister launched a new call for mobilization on Saturday from Palma de Mallorca, where he rallied with the Balearic candidate: 75 percent turnout on November 29 and the 176 seats that mark an absolute majority, to vote, to win and to govern for four more years. The paper’s mean of the latest study from each of 15 institutes, as of November 14, stands printed beside the account: the Popular Party 31.4 percent, the Socialists 26.9, Vox 19.1, Frente Amplio 6.4 and ERC 2.5.
The Library Estate — today in Washington: both chambers out, and the week’s four filings in one place
Both chambers are out on Saturday. The Senate returns Monday at 3:00 p.m. with two votes; the House returns Tuesday; the Supreme Court issues orders Monday from Friday’s conference; and the President’s public schedule for Saturday lists executive time only. The day’s summary carries the week’s filings together: the Court’s grant in the asylum case, the ground stop of more than four hours, Alaska’s widened lead in Friday’s count, and the White House’s announcement of the three-way meeting in China next week. The incoming Senate stands at 55 seats for the Democrats and 44 for the Republicans, with Alaska alone uncalled, in the tally the account carries.