The Midday File — The Desk’s Report
Saturday’s Recovery Cancels More Than 3,700 Flights by Midday Against 700 Expected Overnight, Alaska’s Count Gains Its Raw Numbers at 138,240 to 127,828 With the Governorship Called and the Senate Still Open, and Europe’s Team Meets a Foreign Ministry in Moscow That Says the Subject Was Never Discussed
The midday file: a recovery measured in thousands against hundreds expected; a count that gained its numbers and a governorship that gained a call; a team that gained its likely occupants and a denial that it was ever discussed; seven conditions priced and unanswered; a week’s closes read on a day with no session; and a campaign’s first Saturday.
The Midday in Brief: The Counts Corrected Upward, a Governorship Called, and a Discussion Moscow Says Never Happened
The midday’s largest settled fact is a correction: Saturday’s recovery from the ground stop is costing more flights than the night expected, and Friday’s cost was larger than the night counted. More than 3,700 flights were cancelled and 2,000 more delayed on Saturday in the wire account filed below, against more than 700 Saturday cancellations already listed in the overnight accounts and about 90 expected at Orlando alone. Friday’s totals moved the same way: 9,138 cancellations and 7,068 delays in the tracker’s count, in the morning count filed below; nearly 10,000 cancelled and more than 7,000 delayed in the wire account above; 9,100 cancelled and more than 24,500 delayed in the weather account filed below. The desk prints the three counts apart, as it printed the night’s four apart; they were taken at different hours on different definitions, and no account before the desk reconciles them. In Alaska, the percentage the night carried gained its raw numbers: Ms. Peltola 138,240 to Senator Sullivan 127,828, in the count account filed below, and the state’s governorship was called on Friday evening for Mr. Kreiss-Tomkins while the Senate race stands uncalled. In Dublin’s file, the Foreign Ministry in Moscow says the subject of European representation was not discussed in Thursday’s talks, in the representation account filed below, against the envoys’ account that President Putin was willing to give it a try. Bahrain produced no new word from Manama. The markets produced no session; Saturday reads Friday’s closes and the week’s argument over them.
The Airlines at Midday: 3,700 Cancelled by the Wire’s Count, Two Airline Ground Stops of Their Own, and a $50 Billion Ask
The recovery’s shape at midday is a system moving and rationing itself at the same time. United and Delta announced ground stops for their own flights on Saturday, at Chicago O’Hare and at New York LaGuardia, to handle congestion and gate issues, and many major airports said they could not handle any more diversions, in the wire account at the top of this report. American said late Friday it was prioritizing international flights and smaller cities outside its hubs to position aircraft and crews for a faster recovery, in the same account. More than 5,100 flights into or out of the United States were delayed or cancelled on November 14 in the tracker’s figures, in the national account filed below, which names Atlanta, Chicago O’Hare, New York Kennedy and Dallas-Fort Worth among the hardest hit and records that it is not clear how many of the day’s problems came from the stop. The morning count by airline, at 0645, stands in the morning count above: Delta 629 cancelled, 20 percent of its schedule; JetBlue 335, 40 percent, the highest share among the large carriers; United 510; American 471; Southwest 304; Atlanta led the airports at 114, with Kennedy and Boston Logan at 105 each and O’Hare at 99. Tens of thousands of people were still stranded at airports around the country on Saturday, in the wire account.
The official statements at midday are the Secretary’s Saturday post and the money ask, and the cause file gained a second bearing. Secretary Duffy’s Saturday words stand in the weather account above: operations are slowly returning to normal, planes are pushing back, taxiing and taking off, it is safe to fly, and travellers will continue to see delays and cancellations as carriers reschedule and reposition; the Department announced a further briefing at 1030 at its headquarters, and no account of that briefing’s content stands in the file the desk read by 1200. On cause, the Secretary’s account stands where the night left it—instability at 1536, switches and routers overloaded with data and giving inconsistencies, personnel never losing radar or communications entirely, in the wire account. Beside it stands a second account of the failed thing itself: an outage affecting a network that handles critical radio frequencies used by controllers to speak with pilots, according to two airline officials, in the same account, which records that the contractor overseeing the network, L3Harris, did not respond to a request for comment. Secretary Mullin’s Saturday bearings are that the aging system failed as newer technology was being patched in, in the national account above; that there is zero evidence so far of a cyberattack or a rogue artificial-intelligence system, with neither ruled out; and that the National Security Agency is working with the Department of Homeland Security on the investigation, in the wire account. The maker of the agency’s new SMART tool has said its system was not the cause, in the morning count above. On the money: the ask stands at $50 billion, up from $30 billion sought earlier, in the wire account—“This is an emergency,” the Secretary said—against the $30.1 billion the White House and the Department urged on Congress earlier on Friday and the letter of Thursday at the same figure, in the funding account filed below, which prices the letter’s parts: $10.1 billion for air traffic control modernization, $7.2 billion of it for a common automation platform and controller workstations and $2 billion for cloud computing, and $2 billion for towers, against $12.5 billion Congress approved over five years in July 2025. The Senate Commerce Committee’s answer in the same account is that the incident argues for prioritizing the en route centers, for which Congress has approved $1.9 billion. On what passengers are owed, the midday accounts divide the question the way the rule divides it: a refund is owed when a flight is cancelled and the passenger chooses not to travel, regardless of the reason, in the morning count above; compensation is not owed, because the Administration was responsible for the delays, and meals and hotels under the carriers’ commitments attach to problems within a carrier’s control, in the wire account and the morning count together.
The Count at Midday: 138,240 to 127,828, 445 Short of a Majority, and a Governorship Called on Friday Evening
Alaska’s Senate count at midday is a lead with its arithmetic printed. The latest published first-choice count gives Ms. Peltola 138,240 votes, 49.8 percent, against 127,828, 46.1 percent, for Senator Sullivan; Mr. Heikes holds 5,885, Mr. Daniel J. Sullivan Jr. 4,560, and write-ins 855, for 277,368 reported in all, in the count account at the top of this report, which checks its figures against the state’s returns as carried by the state’s news tracker. The lead is 10,412, against 5,800 in the last count that printed raw totals in this paper’s file; Friday’s release added roughly 22,500 votes, in the same account’s reading of the state’s public media. The Associated Press estimates about 96 percent of expected ballots counted and has not called the race, in the same account. Ms. Peltola stands 445 votes short of an outright majority of the reported vote, in the projection account filed below, which prints the shares at 49.84 and 46.09 and holds its own assessment at favored and uncalled. A rounded 50.0 percent on some trackers is not a majority, the count account warns, because the smaller candidates and the write-ins stand in the denominator. The two legal files stand as the week left them, priced in the count account: the Justice Department’s suit over the two Sullivans’ names, dismissed by a federal judge and appealed; and Judge Matthews’s ruling of November 11 against the Peltola campaign’s request for a list of rejected absentee ballots while the count runs, a ruling about access to records and not about the ballots’ validity. Senator Sullivan’s spokesman’s sentence stands from Friday night: the campaign is waiting for every ballot to be counted. Overseas ballots may arrive through November 18, the tabulation runs November 18, and certification is targeted for November 25; the caucus stands at 55 called seats, and Alaska decides 55 or 56.
The state’s other open race closed. The Associated Press called the governorship for Mr. Kreiss-Tomkins on Friday evening, in the governorship account filed below: a former state representative from Sitka, 37 years old, the youngest governor in the state’s history, succeeding Governor Dunleavy, who was term-limited, and set to take office at noon on December 7. The call’s figures stand at 139,293 votes and 50.8 percent in the Press’s count as carried in the morning tallies; the first Democrat to hold the office since Governor Knowles left it in 2002, in two of the Saturday accounts, and since 1998 in a third—the desk prints the disagreement in the Cocked Hat. The state’s House race stands uncalled, awaiting the ranked-choice results. Mississippi’s counties continue their certification toward December 3, as the midnight edition recorded; no statewide certified total stands in the midday file.
Dublin at Midday: Advisers in the Chairs in Europe’s Likely Form, and a Foreign Ministry That Says the Subject Never Came Up
Europe’s team gained its likely occupants at midday and kept its open question. The representatives are likely to be national security advisers from the five countries, with delegates from the European Commission and the European Council, working with all 27 member states and coordinating alongside Ukraine, the United States and NATO, officials said, in the team account filed below. President Costa’s limit on the mandate stands in the same account: the team is not there to negotiate Ukraine’s territory on Kyiv’s behalf, and only Ukraine has the legitimacy to decide on its territory and sovereignty. Forty European countries, meeting in Dublin on Thursday, signed a declaration that any matter affecting European security should be decided with Europeans involved, in the same account. Ms. Kallas’s claim to the envoy role stands beside the team form: she is the one who represents Europe in foreign and security policy, it is not up to Russia to say who should represent the Union, and Russia does not want anybody strong at the table because it wants to push through its maximum demands, in the team account and the representation account at the top of this report. Whether the Union sends a team or settles on a single figure remains open in the same accounts; Russia and the United States have called for one single representative.
Moscow’s answer gained a second voice at midday, and the two voices do not sit together. The Kremlin’s spokesman’s Friday sentence stands: once Moscow understands the Europeans’ real intentions and their willingness to contribute to the peace process, it can decide on a dialogue in an expanded format. The Foreign Ministry’s spokeswoman, Ms. Zakharova, told a German news agency that, as far as the Foreign Ministry was aware, the issue of European representation was not discussed during the Moscow talks, and state media reported that no Foreign Ministry representatives were present, in the representation account above. That sentence stands against the envoys’ Thursday account, in the same file: Mr. Kushner said President Putin was willing to give European representation a try, and that the deal cannot be concluded without the Europeans at the table. Spokesman Peskov said he expected a next round fairly quickly, without naming a date, in the summit account filed below. Chancellor Merz’s two sentences stand in the representation account: no surprises, addressed to Washington; and, on a European security architecture, Europe does not need to discuss one with Russia because it already exists. No date, place or prisoner number stands in the midday file; the exchange figures stand where the overnight edition left them. The European Council returns to Ukraine’s financing for 2027 and beyond on November 26 and 27, in the team account; the Presidents’ meeting in Shenzhen on November 18 and 19 remains the next dated meeting of any kind.
Bahrain and the War at Midday: The Pair of Sentences Restated, Seven Conditions Priced, and the Negotiator Sent Home
The Bahrain file did not move by midday, and the Saturday roundups restate the pair of sentences at their size. The Guards said their aerospace forces targeted and destroyed the early-warning radar in retaliation for the tower at Sirik, and called the strike a serious warning to Washington to end its aerial provocations and oil smuggling in the strait, with its forces on full alert to respond without geographical limits, in the Bahrain account filed below. Central Command’s answer stands in its claim-and-fact form: two one-way attack drones launched toward Bahrain, both shot down, no injuries, no damage, and the claim of a radar attacked is false, restated Saturday in the denial account filed below. The attempt was the first against an American facility in a Gulf state in more than two months, in the Bahrain account. No Bahraini statement, no imagery accepted by the other side and no finding on Sirik stands in any account the desk read by 1200, for the second day.
The war’s paper file gained its price list at midday. Tehran has sent a proposal for a ceasefire and the reopening of the strait laying out seven conditions, among them an end to the naval blockade, the lifting of sanctions, the release of frozen funds and an explicit announcement of an end to the war, Speaker Ghalibaf told his interviewers, in the negotiator account filed below, which carries the proposal as sent through Qatari mediators and the diplomacy as mediated by Qatar and Pakistan together; the overnight edition carried the proposal as sent to Pakistani mediators, and the desk prints both bearings in the Cocked Hat. The United States has previously refused the conditions without an agreement on the nuclear programme first, in the same account, and Speaker Ghalibaf’s sentence stands that the strait will never return to its pre-war status. The President’s Thursday post stands in the same file at full length: Mr. Vance is directed to focus his complete and total attention on corruption and crime at home; no deal is needed; those days have long since passed; the United States has their money and their strait. Mr. Vance’s own post stands beside it: if it was worth losing the Senate for the next six years, argue it. Central Command’s strait figures stand in both Saturday accounts: about 4,000 ships crossed with American assistance, carrying more than 1.7 billion barrels of crude in the command’s Wednesday claim; at least 12 tankers have been hit in the past 12 days, in Iran’s account. The President’s letter to Congress, that the war terminated with the April 7 ceasefire, and the statute’s other reading, 30 days to wind down absent authorization, stand unanswered; Congress is home for the weekend, and Senator Murkowski’s restraint measure waits for the Senate’s return.
Nvidia and the Markets at Midday: No Session on Saturday, a Verb in Dispute, and Tuesday’s Report the Next Dated Fact
Saturday has no cash market, and the markets’ reading at midday is a reading of Friday’s closes. The S&P 500 closed at 7,561.67, down 0.40 percent; the Nasdaq Composite at 25,136.27, down 0.91 percent; the Dow Jones at 52,347.60, up 0.10 percent; London’s FTSE 100 up 0.36 percent; the ten-year Treasury yield at 5.15 percent; gold at $3,887.60, up 0.06 percent; crude at $88.56, down 0.20 percent, in the Saturday markets account filed below—the desk notes the crude figure is a different barrel from Brent’s $95.77 late print in Friday’s editions, and prints the two apart. The dollar index stands at 103.41, up 0.23 percent. The week’s moving market kept moving on Saturday’s screens: bitcoin at $66,954.34, down 6.15 percent, and ether at $1,895.03, down 6.04 percent, in the same account. Airline shares took their own reading of the ground stop on Friday night: American, United and Delta down between 1 and 2 percent in after-hours trading, JetBlue down about 3 percent, in the wire account at the top of this report.
Nvidia’s file at midday turns on a verb. The board removed Mr. Huang as chief executive and named Ms. Kress, the finance chief, interim chief executive, in the Saturday leadership account filed below. The week’s accounts say resigned: the board accepted the resignation on November 11 and the resignation was announced on November 12, effective immediately, in the week’s filings as carried in the Saturday summaries. The desk prints both verbs in the Cocked Hat and neither in its own voice. The rest of the Saturday file agrees with itself: the stock closed at $162.85 on Friday, down 2 percent on the day and 13 percent on the week, the largest weekly fall since April 2025 and a sixth consecutive weekly decline, the longest streak since 2012; more than $570 billion of value gone in the week and about $1.7 trillion across the six weeks; at least 13 analysts have downgraded the stock this month, in the leadership account. On the succession, the accounts divide in the open: the Financial Times reported Friday that the board had approached Arm’s chief executive, Mr. Haas, and the board told its interviewers on November 13 that it had not yet officially contacted any potential candidates, both in the rotation account filed below, which also prices the week’s other side—the money that left Nvidia went into the rest of the chip trade through Thursday, AMD up 30.02 percent and Broadcom up 23.11 percent from the November 6 close, and came off with it on Friday, AMD down 7.24 percent and Broadcom down 5.26 percent. On the financing file, a Saturday summary adds one sentence to the Journal’s account the overnight edition carried: the planned $500 billion financing partnership has produced no deals, with partners seeking more than the 25 percent residual-value support the company proposed. On Congress, the Saturday leadership account says Mr. Huang has agreed to testify before the Thanksgiving holiday; the file’s standing date for the closed-door interview is December 1, and no confirmation document stands in any account the desk read by 1200. No finding has been made by the board, by any committee or by any court on any allegation in this file. The next dated fact is Tuesday, November 17: earnings after the close, guidance $108 billion of revenue, Ms. Kress hosting the call.
Prices at Midday: The Core Without Trade Services at 0.5 Percent, Energy Down on the Month, and Two Officials Reading One Print Two Ways
The producer print spent its second day being read by its internals. The headline stands: final demand up 0.3 percent in October against 0.4 expected, September revised to 1.4 percent, the year at 6.5 percent, the largest twelve-month rise since November 2022. The midday accounts price the parts: the measure without food, energy and trade services rose 0.5 percent for a second consecutive month, against a median forecast of 0.3; the measure without food and energy alone rose 0.3 percent, in line with forecasts and down from 0.8 in September; goods rose 0.5 and services 0.2, services for a fifth straight month; transportation and warehousing services rose 2.0 percent, with truck freight up 3.9, the largest single contributor to the services rise; energy fell 0.1 percent on the month, diesel down 7.9 and crude petroleum down 10.3, while energy stands 37.0 percent above the year, in the core account filed below. Two officials read the same print on the same Friday programs and reached opposite conclusions, in the same account: Secretary Bessent’s reading is an energy supply shock tied to the war, already easing, in very noisy numbers the Federal Reserve should look past; President Goolsbee’s reading is pressure spread well beyond energy into services and medical care, with demand from the data-centre buildout, and a central bank that has work to do to reestablish its credibility. Mr. Goolsbee does not vote on the committee this year. The pricing stands close to settled and not settled: the probability of a quarter-point rise on December 8 and 9 at 89.4 percent in the reading carried in the core account, and at 89.7 in the annual account filed below, which prices the half-point chance down from 14.5 to 10.3 percent on the print; the funds range stands at 3.75 to 4.00 percent, set on September 17 and held on October 28 by 10 to 2, the two dissents preferring a rise. Governor Waller’s threshold stands where the week left it. The expenditures report of November 25 is the last large print before the meeting; the November producer report lands December 15, after it, so October’s producer figures are the last of their kind the committee will hold.
Spain at Midday: Two Numbers in Palma, the Mean at 26.9, and the First Saturday on the Road
Spain’s campaign spent its first Saturday as the mobilization race the week described. Mr. Sánchez rallied in Palma de Mallorca beside Ms. Armengol and posted his two numbers to his account: 75 percent turnout to win 176 seats and a progressive absolute majority—“to vote, to win and to govern for four more years”—with the appeal to sweat the shirt until the last ballot in the last polling station, in the Palma account filed below. His Palma sentence on the other side stands in the same account: Mr. Feijóo and Mr. Abascal offer no alternative except cuts and the chainsaw. The day’s geography stands in the same file: Mr. Feijóo campaigning in Galicia, Mr. Abascal with events in Almería and Murcia, Ms. Colau in Seville. The fifteen-institute mean moved one tenth at midday, in the Palma account’s table of November 14: Popular Party 31.4, Socialists 26.9, Vox 19.1, Frente Amplio 6.4, ERC 2.5—the Socialists’ tenth is the only movement in the table since the overnight edition printed it. The polls still do not meet: the state survey’s 33.3 percent for the Socialists stands against the mean, one institute’s survey gives the Popular Party a clear advantage in the campaign account filed below, and an opening survey for two national outlets projected 190 seats for the Popular Party and Vox together. Housing stands as the country’s leading concern, named among its three main problems by nearly 56 percent in the October state survey, in the campaign summaries. Spain votes November 29; polls may publish until November 23; the debate’s day still does not meet in the accounts before the desk.
The Afternoon Ahead: An Evening Collection at 1800 and a Week of Dates Already Set
The day’s remaining measure is the recovery’s. Saturday’s cancellation total will be read against the 3,700 cancelled by midday in the wire’s count, and the Department’s 1030 briefing will enter the file when an account of it stands. The week ahead is dated in every file the desk keeps: Nvidia reports after Tuesday’s close; Alaska’s overseas deadline and ranked-choice tabulation meet on Wednesday, November 18, the day the Shenzhen meetings open; the expenditures report and Alaska’s certification target share November 25; the European Council takes up Ukraine’s financing on November 26 and 27; Spain votes on November 29; Mr. Huang’s interview stands dated December 1 in the committee file; the Federal Reserve decides on December 8 and 9. This paper’s Saturday Culture feature stands filed separately, ahead of the day’s watches. The Evening Watch collects at 1800.
The Cocked Hat
Where the midday’s bearings do not meet, the desk prints the triangle. On Friday’s cost: 9,138 cancelled and 7,068 delayed in the tracker’s count; nearly 10,000 cancelled and more than 7,000 delayed in the wire’s; 9,100 cancelled and more than 24,500 delayed in the weather service’s—the delay figures divide by a factor of three on definitions no account states. On Saturday’s cost by midday: more than 3,700 cancelled and 2,000 delayed in the wire’s count, more than 3,400 cancelled by the morning in the tracker’s, more than 3,000 early in the weather service’s, and more than 5,100 delayed or cancelled together in the national account’s. On the stop’s history: the only other nationwide stop since September 11 in the wire’s account, the second since September 11 in two others, the second-longest in the weather service’s, and the third since September 11 in the Milwaukee file the overnight edition carried. On the failed thing: overloaded switches and routers in the Secretary’s account, a network handling critical radio frequencies in two airline officials’ account in the same wire file, and a system that failed as newer technology was patched in, in Secretary Mullin’s. On the money: $50 billion asked on Friday night, $30.1 billion in writing on Thursday, $12.5 billion already approved. On Alaska: 49.8 percent for Ms. Peltola in the count account, 49.84 in the projection account, on the same 138,240 votes; the governorship’s first Democratic holder since 2002 in two accounts and since 1998 in a third. On Europe’s discussion: willing to give it a try, in Mr. Kushner’s account of President Putin; not discussed at all, in the Foreign Ministry’s spokeswoman’s; and a decision after intentions are understood, in the Kremlin spokesman’s. On Tehran’s proposal: Qatari mediators in the Saturday accounts, Pakistani mediators in the overnight file, and Qatar and Pakistan together in the negotiator account’s own diplomacy line. On Mr. Huang’s exit: removed in the Saturday leadership account, resigned in the week’s. On his testimony: before the Thanksgiving holiday in the Saturday account, December 1 in the committee file. On the December hike: 89.4 percent in one FedWatch reading, 89.7 in another, the half-point at 10.3 in one and above 12 in a third. On crude: $88.56 in the Saturday markets account and Brent at $95.77 in Friday’s late print, two barrels printed apart. On Spain’s Socialists: 26.9 in the fifteen-institute mean, 33.3 in the state survey. On Bahrain and on the war’s legal state, the triangle stands as the overnight edition printed it, unmoved by the day. Inside the triangle is where the midday honestly stands.
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. 21 items.
Reuters — more than 3,700 Saturday cancellations, two airline ground stops of their own, and funds sought for an emergency
Major airlines on Saturday cancelled more than 3,700 flights in the United States and delayed 2,000 more as the country recovered from the longest nationwide shutdown of flights since the September 11, 2001 attacks. The Administration issued a nationwide ground stop on Friday that halted nearly all departing flights for almost five hours and forced airlines to cancel nearly 10,000 flights and delay more than 7,000 others. Tens of thousands of people were still stranded at airports on Saturday. United announced a ground stop for its own flights at Chicago O’Hare and Delta at New York LaGuardia, to handle congestion and gate issues, and many major airports said they could not handle more diversions. American said it was prioritizing international flights and smaller cities to position aircraft and crews. The stop followed an outage that appeared to affect a network handling critical radio frequencies used by controllers to communicate with pilots, according to two airline officials; the contractor overseeing the network, L3Harris, did not respond to a request for comment. Secretary Duffy said the trouble began at 3:36 p.m. Eastern, that switches and routers were overloaded with data and gave inconsistencies, that personnel never completely lost radar or communications, and that he seeks $50 billion to upgrade the system, up from $30 billion sought earlier: “This is an emergency.” Secretary Mullin said there was zero evidence so far of a cyberattack or a rogue artificial-intelligence system, neither ruled out, and that the National Security Agency was working with the Department of Homeland Security on the investigation. Because the Administration was responsible for the delays, airlines are not required to provide compensation to stranded passengers. The only other nationwide ground stop since September 11 came in January 2023, for about 90 minutes. Shares of American, United and Delta fell between 1 and 2 percent in after-hours trading on Friday, and JetBlue about 3 percent.
USA Today — more than 5,100 flights delayed or cancelled on November 14, and the Secretary’s Saturday statement
Airlines scrambled to resume and reschedule flights after the four-hour nationwide ground stop, and many travellers still faced cancellations and delays on November 14. The instability in radar and communications systems at traffic control centers was identified at 3:36 p.m. Eastern on Friday, Secretary Duffy said; the stop was lifted at 8:15 p.m., and officials and experts warned disruptions could last days. More than 5,100 flights into or out of the United States were delayed or cancelled on November 14, according to FlightAware, though it is not clear how many of those problems resulted from the stop; Atlanta, Chicago O’Hare, New York Kennedy and Dallas-Fort Worth were among the hardest hit. Secretary Duffy said on November 14 that operations are slowly returning to normal, that travellers will continue to see delays and cancellations as carriers reposition aircraft and crews, and that the Department of Transportation would provide further updates at 10:30 a.m. Eastern. More than 3,500 airplanes were flying when the stop was issued. Secretary Mullin said the aging telecommunications system failed as newer technology was being patched in, and that Americans did not have to fear for their safety.
Men’s Journal — 3,400 cancelled by Saturday morning, the count by airline, and the refund rule
More than 3,400 flights within, into or out of the United States had been cancelled by Saturday morning, November 14, as airlines worked to recover from the nationwide ground stop, according to FlightAware, which also counted 9,138 cancellations and 7,068 delays on Friday. As of 6:45 a.m. Eastern on Saturday, Delta had cancelled 629 flights, 20 percent of its schedule; United 510; American 471; JetBlue 335, 40 percent of its schedule, the highest share among the major carriers; and Southwest 304. Atlanta led the airports with 114 cancellations, New York Kennedy and Boston Logan had 105 each, and Chicago O’Hare 99. FlightAware listed 1,111 delays as of 6:45 a.m., with most of the day’s schedule still ahead. JetBlue waived change and cancel fees and fare differences for flights from November 13 through 14, with rebooking through November 18; Delta allowed rebooking without fees for travel on or before November 21; American’s waiver covered 21 airports for travel on November 13 or 14, with changes made by November 14; Southwest allowed rebooking or standby within five days; Frontier waived change fees for travel through November 15, with fare differences applying. Under Department of Transportation rules, a passenger is entitled to a refund if an airline cancels the flight and the passenger chooses not to travel, regardless of the reason, and the same applies to a domestic delay of three hours or more; meals and hotels are a different matter, because the carriers’ commitments cover problems within their control. Secretary Duffy said it would take some time to get back to capacity, blamed old technology that became overloaded, asked Congress for $50 billion for a complete overhaul, and warned that more such outages would come. The company behind the agency’s new SMART tool has said its system was not the cause.
Fox Weather — more than 9,100 cancelled and 24,500 delayed on Friday, and the second-longest stop in the record
Thousands of flights were cancelled early Saturday in the wake of Friday’s nationwide ground stop, which lasted more than four hours—the longest shutdown of American airspace since September 11 and the second-longest nationwide ground stop in the country’s history, surpassed only by the roughly two-day shutdown after the 2001 attacks. More than 3,000 flights were cancelled early Saturday, according to FlightAware; all told, more than 9,100 flights were cancelled and more than 24,500 delayed on Friday. The Administration said it issued the stop, just before 4 p.m. with 3,500 flights in the air, out of an abundance of caution because of intermittent telecommunications outages. Secretary Duffy posted on Saturday that operations are slowly returning to normal, that planes are pushing back, taxiing and taking off, and that it is safe to fly, and announced a press briefing at 10:30 a.m. Eastern at the Department’s headquarters. Secretary Mullin said there was no indication of a nefarious attack: “This isn’t another 9/11.” Travellers at New York’s LaGuardia told correspondents they had slept on the terminal floor on Friday night, and Amtrak reported higher-than-normal call volumes as stranded passengers turned to the trains. The last nationwide ground stop before Friday was ordered on January 11, 2023, over the system that alerts pilots to flight hazards, and lasted about an hour and a half.
The Hindu BusinessLine — the ask boosted to $50 billion, and the $30.1 billion letter priced in parts
The Administration boosted its request for air traffic control funding to $50 billion late on Friday after a communications issue forced a nationwide ground stop that halted thousands of flights for hours. Secretary Duffy and the White House had earlier on Friday asked for $30.1 billion to upgrade the country’s aging airports and air traffic control system. The request in the letter from the budget director and the Secretary 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, and $2 billion to replace and improve control towers. Congress already approved $12.5 billion over five years in July 2025 to upgrade air traffic control and increase controller hiring, and approved $1.9 billion to replace outdated en route centers; the Republican-led Senate Commerce Committee said the incident highlights the need to prioritize modernizing those centers over other projects. The Administration has called for the Republican-led Congress to approve the funding in the final weeks of the year; Democrats are set to take control of Congress in January.
Fish 4 News — the lead at 10,412 in the November 13 update, 96 percent counted, and the race uncalled
Mary Peltola leads Senator Dan Sullivan by 10,412 votes in Alaska, the last uncalled Senate race of the 2026 midterms, in totals checked on Saturday, November 14 that reflect the state’s November 13 update and are not a certified result. The latest published first-choice count gives Ms. Peltola 138,240 votes, 49.8 percent, against 127,828, 46.1 percent, for the incumbent; Mr. Heikes holds 5,885, Mr. Daniel J. Sullivan Jr. 4,560, and write-ins 855. The Associated Press estimates about 96 percent of expected ballots have been counted and has not called the election; the state’s public media described Friday’s release as adding roughly 22,500 votes and widening the lead. A rounded 50.0 percent on some trackers should not be treated as an outright majority, because the smaller candidates and write-ins count in the total. November 18 is the deadline for overseas ballots and the scheduled ranked-choice tabulation; November 25 is the target for certification. A Peltola victory would give the Democratic caucus 56 seats; a Sullivan retention, 55. Two legal disputes stand in the file: the Justice Department’s suit over possible confusion between the two Sullivans, dismissed by a federal judge and appealed; and the Peltola campaign’s request for records identifying rejected absentee ballots, rejected by Judge Matthews on November 11 as a matter of access to records, not a finding on the ballots.
DINA — 445 votes short of a majority, favored and uncalled, with the full table printed
The latest unofficial Division of Elections data show Ms. Peltola with 138,240 votes to Senator Sullivan’s 127,828, a raw advantage of 10,412 among 277,368 reported votes, at shares of 49.84 and 46.09 percent—a margin of about 3.75 points. Mr. Heikes holds 5,885, Mr. Daniel J. Sullivan Jr. 4,560, and write-ins 855. Ms. Peltola remains 445 votes short of an outright majority of the reported vote, and the ranked-choice process can still transfer ballots from eliminated candidates to the next continuing preference each voter marked. Senator Sullivan’s remaining path depends heavily on transfers from Mr. Heikes and on the composition of the last accepted ballots; independent reviews of preliminary cast-vote data have placed Ms. Peltola ahead in simulated final rounds, and simulations are not official tabulations. The account’s assessment is that Ms. Peltola is favored and the race remains uncalled. Overseas ballots may arrive through November 18, the tabulation is planned for November 18, and certification is targeted for November 25. Democrats have secured 55 seats, Republicans 44, and Alaska is the one outstanding contest.
WHRO — the governorship called for Mr. Kreiss-Tomkins, to take office December 7
Mr. Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins, a former state representative from the island community of Sitka, won the race for governor of Alaska, according to a race call by the Associated Press published on November 14. At 37, he will be the youngest governor in the state’s history. He will replace Governor Mike Dunleavy, a Republican who has been governor since 2018 and was term-limited. The call came after more than a week of counting votes, including ballots arriving by mail and from remote parts of the state; in the ranked-choice system he faced three Republican candidates, including one backed by the President. Mr. Kreiss-Tomkins, known by his initials JKT, made a high-energy, bipartisan, problem-solving approach a centerpiece of his campaign. He is set to take office at noon on December 7.
NationWire — the team’s likely occupants are advisers, and only Ukraine decides its territory
After an informal summit in Dublin on Friday, President Costa announced that Europe will be represented by the Union’s institutions—the Commission and the Council—together with the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy and Poland. Officials said the representatives were likely to be national security advisers from the five countries, plus delegates from the Commission and the Council, working with all 27 member states and coordinating Europe’s contribution alongside Ukraine, the United States and NATO. President Costa defined the mandate’s limit: the team is not there to negotiate Ukraine’s territory on Kyiv’s behalf, and only Ukraine has the legitimacy to decide on its territory and sovereignty. A ceasefire remains the Europeans’ stated priority, and forty European countries meeting in Dublin on Thursday signed a declaration that any matter affecting European security should be decided with Europeans involved. Ms. Kallas laid claim to the envoy role, saying she is the one who represents Europe in foreign and security policy and that it is not up to Russia to say who should represent the Union. The envoys Mr. Witkoff and Mr. Kushner met President Putin in Moscow on Thursday, then briefed President Zelenskyy in Dublin, and said President Putin had agreed Europe would join the next round; the Kremlin has not confirmed that account, its spokesman said Moscow must first understand the Europeans’ intentions, and the Foreign Ministry said it was unaware of any such agreement. No date or venue has been announced; the European Council returns to Ukraine’s financing on November 26 and 27.
Zot News — the Foreign Ministry says the issue was not discussed in Moscow, against the envoy’s account
The Union has named its representatives for potential peace talks, and Moscow questioned the bloc’s role: the Kremlin says it needs to understand Europe’s real intentions before deciding whether to expand the format, and the Foreign Ministry contradicted the envoy’s claim that President Putin was willing to have European representatives join. President Costa said after the Dublin meeting that the Union will take part alongside France, Germany, Italy, Poland and the United Kingdom, and that Europe must speak with one clear and united voice. Mr. Kushner said on Thursday that President Putin was willing to give it a try on European representation; spokeswoman Zakharova told a German news agency that, as far as the Foreign Ministry was aware, the issue had not been discussed during the Moscow talks, and state media reported no Foreign Ministry representatives were present. Ms. Kallas said Russia does not want anybody strong at the table because it wants to push through its maximum demands, and asked whether Europe has a say in who represents Russia. Chancellor Merz asked the President to make no surprises on Ukraine and said Europe does not need to discuss a European security architecture with Russia, because it already exists. The account notes that Russia and the United States have called for one single representative, several nations want a team, and the Union has not settled on a single figure.
Magna Bureau — the Dublin decision in full, and a next round expected fairly quickly with no date
European leaders agreed in Dublin that the Union’s institutions and five countries will speak for Europe at the next round of the Ukraine talks, if Moscow lets them in. President Costa announced on Friday, November 13, after an informal summit in Dublin, that the team will be the institutions plus the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy and Poland—the E5 of the Coalition of the Willing, the group of more than 30 countries backing Ukraine and preparing security guarantees for a future ceasefire. The envoys Mr. Witkoff and Mr. Kushner met President Putin in Moscow on Thursday, November 12, and then President Zelenskyy in Dublin, and said President Putin had agreed Europe would join the next round. The Kremlin has not confirmed that agreement: spokesman Peskov said on Friday that Moscow must first understand the Europeans’ intentions and readiness to contribute to peace before deciding on talks in an expanded format, and said he expected a next round fairly quickly, without naming a date. Ms. Kallas laid claim to the envoy role, saying she represents Europe in foreign and security policy and that it is not up to Russia to say who represents the Union.
MetroPunch — the first target in a Gulf state in more than two months, and the two accounts of it
Iran targeted an American military installation in Bahrain for the first time in more than two months, amid tensions over the stalled negotiations. The Guards said they launched the attack early Friday in retaliation for an American strike on Iranian territory, and that their aerospace forces targeted and destroyed the early-warning radar of the American military in Bahrain, in response to the enemy’s aerial aggression against a communication tower in Sirik. Central Command said its forces intercepted two drones heading toward Bahrain, and that the incident caused no injuries or damage; it dismissed the claim of a successful attack on a radar system as false. The account also carries the President’s declaration that Washington no longer needed an agreement with Iran: “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!” The President directed Mr. Vance, who had been leading negotiations with Tehran, to shift his attention to corruption and crime in Democratic-controlled states and cities. Central Command claimed at least 4,000 ships had crossed the strait with American military assistance, carrying more than 1.7 billion barrels of crude.
Zot News — the negotiator redirected, seven conditions through Qatari mediators, and the ball in the American court
The Guards said on Friday they had destroyed an American early-warning radar in Bahrain, hours after the President declared no deal with Tehran was needed and ordered Mr. Vance to shift his focus from the Iran negotiations to corruption in Democratic-run states and cities. The Guards called the attack a serious warning to Washington to end its aerial provocations and oil smuggling in the strait, and said their forces were on full alert and ready to respond without geographical limits. The President wrote that he had asked Mr. Vance to focus his complete and total attention on the massive corruption and crime in Democrat-run cities and states, and added: “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!” Mr. Vance, who led the negotiations for a short-lived truce, has blamed the war and its economic reverberations for the Republicans’ midterm losses, writing that if losing the Senate for the next six years was worth it, others should argue so. The President’s messages stand in two directions in the same account: not looking to escalate, and a strike possible right now if things went the wrong way. Diplomatic efforts mediated by Qatar and Pakistan are continuing: Speaker Ghalibaf told his interviewers that Tehran has sent a clear proposal for a ceasefire and the reopening of the strait via Qatari mediators, laying out seven conditions including an end to the naval blockade, the lifting of sanctions, the release of frozen funds and an explicit announcement of an end to the war, and that the ball is now in the American court; the United States has previously refused those demands without an agreement on the nuclear programme first. Speaker Ghalibaf also said the strait would never return to its pre-war status. At least 12 tankers have been hit in the past 12 days, according to Iran; Central Command says about 4,000 ships have crossed with American assistance.
New Kerala — the denial restated in the command’s claim-and-fact form
Central Command rejected the Guards’ claim to have destroyed an American early-warning radar installation in Bahrain. In a post, the command stated its form: claim—today the Guards said they attacked a radar; fact—the Guards launched two one-way attack drones toward Bahrain and both were shot down by American forces, and there were no injuries or damage. The Guards had described the strike as retaliation for an American aerial attack on a telecommunications tower in the Sirik region; according to a Fars report, the Guards said their forces targeted the radar approximately an hour after the alleged attack on the tower, and described the claimed destruction as a serious warning to the aggressor enemy to end its aerial provocations and oil smuggling in the strait. The President had earlier issued a warning to Tehran against threatening American allies and maritime interests, and claimed Washington was making progress in its operations and extracting more oil than before the conflict began.
ReadUS247 — the core without trade services at 0.5 percent, energy down on the month, and two officials opposed
Producer prices rose 0.3 percent in October, the last such reading before the Federal Reserve decides in December; energy fell 0.1 percent on the month while the measure excluding food, energy and trade services rose 0.5 percent. The Bureau published the figures on November 13: final demand up 0.3 percent on the month and 6.5 on the year, the largest twelve-month rise since November 2022; without food and energy, up 0.3 and 5.0; without food, energy and trade services, up 0.5 for a second consecutive month against a median forecast of 0.3, and 4.9 on the year; goods up 0.5; services up 0.2, for a fifth straight month; energy down 0.1 on the month, with diesel down 7.9 and crude petroleum down 10.3, and up 37.0 on the year; transportation and warehousing services up 2.0, with truck freight up 3.9, the largest single contributor to the services rise. Secretary Bessent and President Goolsbee disagreed publicly the same morning: the Secretary’s reading is an energy supply shock tied to the conflict, already easing, in very noisy numbers the Federal Reserve should look forward past; the Chicago president’s reading is pressure spread well beyond energy into services and medical care, with old-fashioned demand overheating from the data-centre buildout, and a central bank that has work to do to reestablish its credibility. Mr. Goolsbee is not a voting member this year. The funds range stands at 3.75 to 4.00 percent, set September 17 in the first increase since 2023 and held October 28 by 10 to 2, both dissents preferring a rise. The FedWatch probability of a rise to 4.00–4.25 percent in December stood at 89.4 percent on November 13; Governor Waller said he would support a quarter-point increase unless core consumer inflation came in at 0.3 or more, and would consider a half point depending on the data. The November producer report is published after the December meeting.
Startup Fortune — the annual rate at its highest since November 2022, and the hike odds after the print
Producer prices rose 0.3 percent in October, below the 0.4 expected, while the twelve-month rate climbed to 6.5 percent, the biggest annual jump since the 7.4 percent of November 2022. Goods did most of the work: final demand goods rose 0.5 percent and services 0.2, and more than 60 percent of the October advance came from goods other than food and energy; steel mill products rose 2.7 percent and industrial chemicals 3.1. After the release, the FedWatch odds of a 25-point hike in December rose from 85.4 percent on Thursday to 89.7, and the chance of a 50-point move fell from 14.5 to 10.3; a week earlier the December odds stood at 77 percent after a strong jobs report. The next producer release, covering November, is published December 15.
Iboro Finance — Saturday’s table of Friday’s closes, and the digital market still falling
Global markets closed a turbulent week with declines in the technology sector and a sharp correction in digital assets. The S&P 500 closed at 7,561.67, down 0.40 percent; the Nasdaq Composite at 25,136.27, down 0.91; the Dow Jones at 52,347.60, up 0.10; London’s FTSE 100 at 10,902.56, up 0.36; the ten-year Treasury yield at 5.15 percent; gold at $3,887.60, up 0.06; crude oil at $88.56, down 0.20; the dollar index at 103.41, up 0.23, with the euro at 1.1028 and the pound at 1.3209. Bitcoin fell 6.15 percent to $66,954.34, ether 6.04 to $1,895.03, Solana 7.73 to $75.35, XRP 4.47 to $0.993 and BNB 6.15 to $615.69, in a sell-off the account attributes in part to speculation that investors are cashing out to fund participation in an anticipated Anthropic offering. Nvidia endured a sixth consecutive week of declines, a streak not seen in 14 years, and its market value shrank by $573 billion in the week. A Federal Reserve survey identified artificial-intelligence risks as the biggest threat to the financial system, in the account’s reading. Nigerian companies cut 2.26 trillion naira of debt in the first nine months of 2026, and pension funds in South Africa and Nigeria have reportedly sought a combined $1 billion stake in the Dangote refinery offering.
Ungated — the board removed its chief in this account, 13 downgrades, and testimony before Thanksgiving
Nvidia’s board removed Mr. Jensen Huang as chief executive and named the finance chief, Ms. Colette Kress, interim chief executive, while the stock closed at $162.85 on Friday, down 2 percent on the day and 13 percent for the week. The decline erased more than $570 billion of market value, extending a six-week losing streak that has shaved roughly 30 percent off the share price and cost about $1.7 trillion in valuation. At least 13 analysts have downgraded the stock this month, most during the current week. The board convened after a newspaper reported a second affair involving a senior vice president, in the account’s telling. Mr. Huang has agreed to testify before Congress before the Thanksgiving holiday, and the company will report earnings on November 17. The weekly fall of 13 percent is the biggest since April 2025, and the losing streak is the longest for the company since 2012.
ApeX — where the money rotating out of Nvidia went, measured close to close, and the succession reports in conflict
United States markets are shut for the weekend, so every equity figure is measured to the Friday, November 13 cash close. From the November 6 close through Thursday the 12th, the rotation ran one way: the leveraged chip fund rose 41.24 percent, AMD 30.02, Cerebras 25.25 and Broadcom 23.11, while Nvidia fell 10.98. On Friday the whole trade came off: the fund fell 13.23 percent, SanDisk 7.55, AMD 7.24, Marvell 6.67 and Broadcom 5.26, and Nvidia fell 3.11 on the day in this account’s contract measure. From the November 6 close through Thursday, Nvidia lost about $493 billion of market value while AMD and Broadcom together gained about $561 billion. Nvidia ended the week at $162.85, down 12.75 percent, about 30 percent over a six-week streak the account calls its longest since 2012, with its market value closing below $4 trillion. On the succession, the reporting conflicts: a Financial Times report on Friday said the board had approached Arm’s chief executive, Mr. Rene Haas, as a potential successor, and Arm shares fell 4.63 percent on the day; the board told its interviewers on November 13 that it had not yet officially contacted any potential candidates. The company reports on November 17, after the close, with an interim chief executive and no permanent successor named.
Demócrata — two numbers in Palma, 75 and 176, and the mean at 26.9 on November 14
The President of the Government and candidate for re-election, Mr. Pedro Sánchez, launched a new call for mobilization on Saturday ahead of the November 29 elections, setting out two figures as the keys to a new progressive majority: 75 percent turnout and the 176 seats of an absolute majority in the Congress. “We must write down two figures: 75 and 176,” he wrote, closing with: “Vote, to win, and to govern for four more years!” The message followed his rally in Palma de Mallorca at the Son Fusteret venue, beside Ms. Francina Armengol, where he said Mr. Feijóo and Mr. Abascal offer no alternative except cuts and the chainsaw, defended his government’s management, and linked the two opposition leaders with Presidents Trump and Milei, Prime Minister Meloni and Prime Minister Orbán. The account’s table of the fifteen-institute mean, dated November 14, stands at Popular Party 31.4 percent, Socialists 26.9, Vox 19.1, Frente Amplio 6.4 and ERC 2.5. The campaign’s first Saturday placed Mr. Feijóo in Galicia, Mr. Abascal with events in Almería and Murcia, and Ms. Colau in Seville. A 75 percent turnout does not alone guarantee the progressive bloc 176 seats, the account notes, because the 350 seats are distributed by provincial constituencies.
Particle News — the two-week campaign opens, and turnout and tight provinces will decide it
The official campaign opened on Friday, November 13, with Mr. Sánchez, Mr. Feijóo and Mr. Abascal launching nationwide tour events in key provinces. Mr. Sánchez set a 75 percent participation target for the November 29 vote, and his party is elevating Ms. Gómez, planning an event with Brazil’s President Lula da Silva, and promising further surprises to mobilize the progressive bloc. The Popular Party is pushing a vote-conversion message, with the Galician leader Mr. Rueda urging voters to channel discontent with the government into support for Mr. Feijóo and to prevent Vox from becoming decisive. Public opinion is unstable: one institute’s survey gives the Popular Party a clear advantage while the state survey projects a Socialist lead, so turnout levels and tight regional contests such as La Rioja could decide which bloc reaches the 176 seats of a majority.