The Night File — The Desk’s Report
The Airlines Begin a Saturday Recovery With the Counts Still Apart, Europe Names an E5 Team While Moscow Stays Evasive, and Alaska Moves to 49.8 Percent for Ms. Peltola With the Race Still Uncalled
The night file: a recovery that is not a restoration, counted four ways; a European team named in one capital and received evasively in another; a Senate count that moved in percentage and not to a call; a radar still claimed and still denied; a chip company that financed its own customers, in the Journal’s account; and a campaign in Spain entering its second day.
The Night in Brief: A Recovery Counted Four Ways, a Team Named in Brussels’ Name, and a Count at 49.8 Percent
The night’s largest settled fact is a recovery that has begun and not finished: departures resumed across the United States on Friday evening after the nationwide ground stop, airlines worked overnight to reposition aircraft and crews, and Saturday opens with volumes still below a normal November weekend and hundreds of Saturday flights already cancelled. The stop stands in the resumption account filed below, with San Francisco’s official confirmation timed 5:36 p.m. Pacific on Friday. The counts of its cost stand apart, and the desk prints them apart: more than 8,000 delayed and 7,000 cancelled by 2100 Friday in the NPR account of the FlightAware figures, in the same account; more than 10,000 delays and 5,000 cancellations by 2000 in the aviation account filed below; about 15,000 delayed or cancelled on Friday in the CNN-cited FlightAware figures in the Orlando account filed below, with more than 700 Saturday flights already cancelled and about 90 expected at Orlando alone. In the talks file, one new sentence entered on Friday and it came from the European side: President Costa said the European team would be the Union’s institutions and the E5—France, Germany, Italy, Poland and the United Kingdom—in the CNN account filed below; the Kremlin’s answer in the same account is evasive, neither endorsement nor refusal, and the prisoner exchange still carries no agreed number, with the envoys’ file holding figures from more than 1,000 a side to up to 1,500 a side in the envoys account filed below. In Alaska, incomplete results released Friday night put Ms. Peltola at 49.8 percent, nearly four points ahead, in the Friday-night account filed below; the race is uncalled, and the tabulation of November 18 is now four days off. Bahrain produced no new word from Manama and no evidence either side accepts. Nvidia produced a new file instead: the Journal’s financing report, carried overnight in the financing account filed below.
The Airlines at 0400: Departures Moving, Schedules Not Restored, and No Cause Beyond the Preliminary Account
Saturday’s first accounts agree on the shape of the morning and divide on everything countable. Departures are slowly recovering but overall volumes remain well below typical levels for a November weekend, airlines continued to re-sequence aircraft and crews after hours of suspended operations, and passengers at major hubs woke to lingering disruptions and crowded terminals, in the travellers account filed below. JetBlue resumes its flights on Saturday morning and Air Canada cancelled all flights to and from the United States, in the Milwaukee live file filed below, which also records 3,500 airplanes in the air at the hour of the stop. Delta and United had resumed operations Friday night, in the same file. Secretary Duffy’s warning stands over the whole recovery: restoring departures takes time, it depends on crews, the largest aircraft move first, and more aircraft move starting Saturday morning, in the Orlando account above. The refund rule stands plainly in the resumption account: a passenger whose flight is cancelled is entitled to a refund if he chooses not to travel, whatever the reason for the cancellation.
On cause, the night added repetition, not a finding. The preliminary account stands where the midnight edition left it, restated in the reopening account filed below: instability at 1536, overloaded older switches and routers producing inconsistent information, a legacy network in an old system. Secretary Mullin’s two sentences stand beside it in every account: no evidence of a cyberattack, and the investigation ongoing, with officials also examining how older equipment interacts with newer technology, in the aviation account above. No completed technical investigation, no named failed component beyond switches and routers, and no Saturday schedule total stands in any account the desk read by 0400. The stop’s place in the record also still carries its two directions: the third nationwide ground stop since September 11 in the Milwaukee file, the first full stop since January 2023 in the travellers account—the same history read from two ends, printed in the Cocked Hat.
Dublin at 0400: A Team Named by Mr. Costa, an Evasive Answer From the Kremlin, and a War That Ran Under the Diplomacy
Europe’s chair, empty through two editions, has a shape this morning and still no names in it. On Friday the President of the European Council, Mr. Costa, said the European team would be represented by the European Union’s institutions and the E5 nations of France, Germany, Italy, Poland and the United Kingdom, and that the team will act in full unity and in close coordination with all member states, in the CNN account at the top of this report. The shape answers Thursday’s three formats in part: Ms. Kallas’s treaty reading named Mr. Costa and herself; Chancellor Merz named the E3 and a group of five; President Macron said the format would be determined later. Mr. Costa’s Friday sentence keeps the institutions and adopts a five that adds Italy and Poland to the E3’s three and includes the United Kingdom from outside the Union. It does not name the persons who will sit, and Chancellor Merz’s pointed sentence to Washington stands in the same account: “Please, no surprises. Keep playing as part of Team Europe and as part of the team with Ukraine.”
Moscow’s Friday answer is the file’s second new sentence, and it commits the Kremlin to nothing. Spokesman Peskov told journalists that President Putin has never refused to engage with the Europeans, and that if the Europeans truly have someone authorized to hold discussions, Moscow would be prepared to talk with them; once Moscow understands their actual intentions and their willingness to contribute to the peace process, it can decide regarding a dialogue in an expanded format, in the CNN account above. President Putin’s own words at Thursday’s meeting stand beside it: Moscow has never been opposed to engaging in dialogue with Europe and has never broken it off, and territorial issues will always be a bone of contention. Against those sentences stand the week’s harder ones, unwithdrawn: aide Ushakov’s reading that the Europeans must decide whether they want peace or the continuation of the war, Foreign Minister Lavrov’s judgment that European involvement is not a promising approach, and delegation head Medinsky’s reported refusal, all standing in the earlier editions. Mr. Dmitriev’s sentence is the mildest in the Russian file: working on European security is a great, important step for Europe. Settled: a team shape is named in Europe, and Moscow has not refused it in so many words. Open: whether Moscow accepts it, who fills it, and when and where it sits.
The exchange and the ground war moved on their own clocks while the format was argued. The prisoner file’s numbers still do not meet: the exchange will exceed 1,000 on each side and may take place within two to three weeks, General Zorin said, according to Interfax, in the envoys account above, which also records the sides considering up to 1,500 each; President Zelenskyy’s 1,000 to 1,200 a side stands from Wednesday; and the caution in the envoy account filed below stands over all of it—until Moscow and Kyiv confirm lists, categories, verification and transfer arrangements, the exchange is a negotiating goal, not a completed operation. On the ground, at least 10 people were killed and 48 injured in Ukraine from Thursday into Friday in regional officials’ figures, Russian air defenses intercepted nearly 1,198 Ukrainian drones overnight into Friday in the defense ministry’s account with at least eight killed in Russia in CNN’s tally of governors’ figures, Ukraine’s forces hit drone production and repair sites at Rostov-on-Don on Friday, and Ukrainian troops still faced Starshield speed limits of 161 kilometres per hour on Friday, President Zelenskyy said, with Kyiv asking Washington and SpaceX for clarification and SpaceX’s standing answer that there had been no change in its service—all in the CNN account above. The Presidents’ meeting at APEC in Shenzhen on November 18 and 19 remains the next dated meeting of any kind.
Bahrain and the War at 0400: A Standstill in the Gulf, a Proposal With the Mediators, and Two Readings of a Terminated War
Nothing entered the Bahrain file overnight, and the desk files the standstill at its size for a second night. The Guards’ claim stands: an early-warning radar destroyed on the island, at Jabal ad Dukhan in one account, in retaliation for the tower at Sirik. Central Command’s denial stands, restated overnight in the denial account filed below in the command’s own claim-and-fact form: two one-way attack drones launched toward Bahrain, both shot down, no injuries, no damage. The morning roundups carry the pair of sentences without addition—the Dhaka account filed below runs both and calls the war’s present state de-escalation with the main issues unresolved. No Bahraini statement, no imagery accepted by the other side and no finding on Sirik stands in any account the desk read by 0400. One strait item rides with the file: the Guards said a liquefied petroleum gas tanker struck a mine east of the strait after ignoring warnings, in the overnight summaries of Friday’s claims; it is unverified, as the tanker claims of the week have been.
The war’s paper file gained one movement and kept its contradiction. Iran sent a new peace proposal to Pakistani mediators on Thursday, Iranian state media reported Friday, in the proposal account filed below. The President’s Friday position stands in two directions at once: the letter’s word, terminated, with no deal needed—Washington no longer needs a deal with Tehran, in the Maldives account filed below—and the Florida speech’s word, that the United States will not leave early because Iran is not coming through with the kind of peace deal it has to have. The statute’s other reading stands unanswered: without action from Congress, the administration has 30 days to wind down military actions absent authorization, and Senator Murkowski’s restraint measure waits for the Senate’s return. Congress is home for the weekend; nothing in this file has a Saturday date.
Nvidia at 0400: A Financing File Opens in the Journal’s Account, the Deadline Stays Passed, and Tuesday Is the Next Date
The night’s new Nvidia reporting is not about Congress or the board; it is about the company’s own money. Nvidia used its balance sheet to finance artificial-intelligence startups and data-centre operators so they would keep buying its chips instead of letting prices fall, according to a Wall Street Journal report carried overnight in the financing account at the top of this report. The financing answered a surplus of silicon and memory ordered from Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company; instead of cutting prices to clear it, the company funded the customers that would absorb it. The scale in the filing, as analysed by SemiAnalysis, is commitments and guarantees of about $530 billion, up from $184 billion a quarter earlier, including $279 billion of supply and capacity obligations and $108.5 billion of maximum gross guarantee exposure, in the same account. Inside that figure sits the August argument the report reconstructs: Ms. Kress argued for reining in exposure to smaller cloud providers and to OpenAI and Anthropic and cut a proposed OpenAI guarantee from about $250 billion to $125 billion, while Mr. Huang pushed the other way and privately acknowledged the largest cloud companies were moving toward their own chips. The desk prints the report as the Journal’s account, carried in one overnight source; no company answer to it stands in the file.
The congressional file did not move overnight, and its silence is now a full night old. Mr. Huang’s written confirmation of the December 1 interview was due at 2000 Friday; no confirmation and no subpoena stands in any account the desk read by 0400, and the overnight international roundups still frame the matter as it stood before the deadline—Mr. Huang faces a subpoena, in the subpoena account filed below, dated among November 14’s headlines. The November 14 update in the succession account filed below repeats the standing facts without resolving them: the appearance moved from November 18 to December 1, Representative Mast’s word that Mr. Huang signalled he would appear, the employee petition past 1,600 comments, and a board search weighing inside and outside candidates, with Arm’s chief executive, Mr. Haas, named in the financing account as one of several approached and the board calling speculation premature. The stock’s week is closed at $162.85, down 2.0 percent Friday and 13 percent on the week, $573 billion of value gone in the financing account’s arithmetic. The next dated fact is Tuesday, November 17: the company’s first report under Ms. Kress, guidance $108 billion of revenue assuming no data-centre chip sales to China, Ms. Kress hosting the call. No finding has been made by the board, by any committee or by any court on any allegation in this file.
Prices at 0400: The Producer Print Digested, a December Hike Priced, and the Size of It Open
Friday’s producer figure spent the night being read one way: soft on the month, hard on the year, and not soft enough to move the Federal Reserve’s expected path. The index rose 0.3 percent in October against 0.4 expected, September revised to 1.4 percent, and the year at 6.5 percent, the largest twelve-month rise since November 2022; inflation at the factory gate is broadening out, in the Reuters account filed below. Economists’ estimate from the week’s two prints puts core personal consumption expenditures inflation at 0.3 percent for October and 3.2 percent over the year, in the same account; the expenditures report itself lands November 25. The market’s pricing, in the overnight accounts, wavers between a quarter-point hike on December 8 and 9 and room for a half-point: Governor Waller’s threshold—a half-point should be considered if core inflation ran at 0.3 percent or higher—was met by the consumer print, New York’s President Williams said more hikes are likely, Chicago’s President Goolsbee said inflation is going the wrong way, and another increase is anticipated in January in the FedWatch reading in the Reuters account. The overnight summary in the pricing account filed below carries the caution the desk adopts: no data release confirms a hike; only the Federal Reserve announces one, after December 8 and 9. Brent’s Friday late print, $95.77, and the agency’s surplus finding stand as the evening editions left them; Saturday has no American market.
The Count at 0400: 49.8 Percent on Friday Night, No Raw Total With It, and Four Days to the Tabulation
Alaska’s Friday night figures moved the percentage and not the state of the race. Incomplete results released Friday night showed Ms. Peltola with 49.8 percent of the vote, nearly four percentage points ahead of Senator Sullivan, and a New York Times analysis found her on track to win, in the Friday-night account at the top of this report. That account carries no raw vote total, and the desk does not invent one: the last raw totals in the file stand at Ms. Peltola 125,157 to Senator Sullivan 119,357, a lead of 5,800 on more than 256,000 counted, from Thursday’s tally of an additional 5,000 ballots, in the count account filed below, which puts the shares at 49.1 to 46.8 after that count. The national tally’s shares stand between the two: 49.2 to 47.0, with about 91.3 percent of ballots counted, in the national account filed below. Senator Sullivan’s spokesman’s Friday-night sentence is the campaign’s whole position: “We’re still waiting for every ballot to be counted, and we’ll see what happens from there.” The two other candidates together hold about 4 percent, in the Friday-night account; overseas ballots may arrive through November 18, the ranked-choice tabulation runs November 18 if no candidate passes 50 percent of first choices, and certification is targeted for November 25. The Democratic caucus stands at 55 called seats, and Alaska decides 55 or 56. Mississippi’s counties spent Friday certifying, as the midnight edition recorded; no statewide certified total stands in the overnight file, and the state’s date remains December 3.
Spain at 0400: The Campaign’s Second Day, the Interviews Behind It, and a Debate Date the Accounts Do Not Share
Spain opens its second campaign day with the argument already set: housing, migration, and whether the government’s numbers are believed. The candidates’ interviews with broadcaster Jordi Wild, given during the campaign, put the positions side by side, in the interviews account filed below: Mr. Sánchez would change the land law to build more, Ms. Colau opposes speculation and calls for the wealthy to pay more, and Mr. Feijóo backs a million new homes linked to 500,000 jobs and claims half a million immigrants receive payments without having worked an hour in the previous year. On the economy the two principals divided over the record itself: one of the strongest periods in Spain’s democratic history, in the Prime Minister’s words, against Mr. Feijóo’s answer that he does not believe the data. The mobilization race stands in the campaign account filed below: the Socialists elevating Ms. Gómez, planning the Brazilian president’s visit, and aiming at 75 percent turnout; the Popular Party urging voters to convert discontent into a vote for Mr. Feijóo and to keep Vox from becoming decisive. The polls stand as the week left them and do not meet: the fifteen-institute mean at Popular Party 31.4, Socialists 26.8, Vox 19.1, in the Arnedo account filed below, against the state survey’s 33.3 percent for the Socialists. Even the debate’s day does not meet in the accounts before the desk: Monday, November 16, in the standing campaign accounts, against a Thursday cara a cara moderated by María Casado of the Television Academy in the El País file carried in the campaign summaries. Spain votes November 29; polls may publish until November 23.
Saturday Opens: A Recovery to Measure, a Tabulation Four Days Out, and an Earnings Date on Tuesday
The day ahead is short, because Saturday is short in every file the desk keeps. The airlines’ recovery is the day’s only moving American story, and its measure will be Saturday’s cancellation total against the 700 already listed in the night’s accounts. Alaska counts toward November 18, when the overseas deadline and the tabulation meet. Berlin’s Coalition of the Willing meets next week, where Mr. Costa’s E5 shape is the first test of whether Europe’s team survives contact with its own capitals. Nvidia reports on Tuesday. The Senate returns to a war-powers file its deadline has already passed. Saturday also carries this paper’s Culture feature, filed separately in the FT Weekend manner, ahead of the day’s watches. The Midday Watch collects at 1200.
The Cocked Hat
Where the night’s bearings do not meet, the desk prints the triangle. On the ground stop’s cost: more than 8,000 delayed and 7,000 cancelled by 2100 Friday in the NPR account of FlightAware; more than 10,000 delays and 5,000 cancellations by 2000 in the aviation account; about 15,000 delayed or cancelled on Friday in the CNN-cited figures—three counts, three hours, three definitions, none reconciled. On its history: the third nationwide stop since September 11 in the Milwaukee file, the first full stop since January 2023 in the travellers account. On Europe’s team: the institutions and the E5, in Mr. Costa’s Friday sentence; Costa and Kallas under the treaties, in Ms. Kallas’s; the E3 and a five, in Chancellor Merz’s; and determined later, in President Macron’s—with Moscow’s answer evasive in the Kremlin spokesman’s words and refused in the delegation head’s reported words, both standing. On the exchange: more than 1,000 a side within two to three weeks in General Zorin’s account, up to 1,500 a side considered in the same account, 1,000 to 1,200 a side in President Zelenskyy’s, and unnumbered in the envoys’ own posts. On Alaska: 49.8 percent for Ms. Peltola in Friday night’s incomplete results, 49.2 in the national tally and 49.1 after Thursday’s count, on raw totals that stand at 125,157 to 119,357 in the last count that printed them. On Nvidia: commitments and guarantees of about $530 billion in the filing as analysed, a worst week since April 2025 at down 13 percent, and a chief executive’s deadline passed with neither a confirmation nor a subpoena in the file. On Spain’s debate: Monday in the standing accounts, Thursday in the El País file. On Bahrain and on the war’s legal state, the triangle stands as the midnight edition printed it, unmoved by the night. Inside the triangle is where the night 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. 24 items.
News Desk Report — departures resume after the ground stop, and the recovery continues
Departures were allowed to resume after the nationwide ground stop caused by air traffic control communications problems on Friday, November 13, but airlines faced a substantial recovery operation as Saturday morning began. San Francisco International Airport confirmed in an official update at 5:36 p.m. Pacific Time on Friday that the nationwide stop had ended, and asked passengers to check with their airlines. The Federal Aviation Administration’s initial statement said communication issues affecting multiple Air Route Traffic Control Centers had prompted the stop and described its information as preliminary. Secretary Duffy told a White House briefing that radar and communications instability had begun at 3:36 p.m. Eastern and that overloaded routers and inconsistent data had led officials to halt departures. NPR reported, citing FlightAware, that more than 8,000 flights had been delayed and 7,000 cancelled by 9 p.m. Eastern on Friday. Secretary Mullin said officials had seen no evidence of a cyberattack, which the account notes is not a final finding on every technical cause.
TravelPirates — the agency reopens the airspace and blames aging equipment
The Federal Aviation Administration has lifted its nationwide ground stop, allowing flights to resume across the United States after a telecommunications failure halted departures for more than four hours on Friday, November 13. The airspace reopened at 8:15 p.m. Eastern, but travellers are not in the clear: Secretary Duffy says outdated telecommunications equipment appears to be behind the shutdown, with older switches and routers overloaded and producing inconsistent information for controllers, while Secretary Mullin says there is currently no evidence of a cyberattack and the investigation is ongoing. Airlines are working to restore schedules, reposition aircraft and crews and rebook passengers, with disruptions potentially continuing into Saturday.
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel — the ground stop lifted, Secretary Duffy blames a legacy network
After over four hours, the nationwide ground stoppage at all airports, including Milwaukee Mitchell International, on Friday, November 13, has been lifted. Secretary Duffy held a briefing Friday night in which he blamed old software and a legacy network problem in the air traffic control system for the telecommunication issues, and said normal operations will take time. Secretary Mullin said there was no evidence of a cyber or artificial intelligence attack. The live file records 3,500 airplanes in the air at the time of the stoppage, Delta and United resuming operations, JetBlue resuming its flights on Saturday morning, and Air Canada cancelling all flights to and from the United States. The account calls the stop the third nationwide ground stop since the September 11 attacks.
The Traveler — the ground stop lifts, and weary travellers regroup into Saturday
A rare nationwide ground stop across the United States ended Friday evening after a communications failure hit air traffic control facilities, but passengers at major hubs woke on Saturday to lingering disruptions, crowded terminals and improvised plans. The agency ordered the halt on Friday, November 13, citing extraordinary circumstances and safety concerns tied to a telecommunications outage affecting regional air route traffic control centers, and cancelled the stop shortly after 8:15 p.m. Eastern once controllers had restored enough communications capacity. The incident is described as the first full nationwide ground stop since the January 2023 failure in the Notice to Air Missions system. By early Saturday, November 14, flight tracking data showed departures slowly recovering but volumes still well below typical levels for a November weekend, with airlines re-sequencing aircraft and crews overnight.
BlogMickey — flights resume after the four-hour stop, with about 90 Saturday cancellations expected at Orlando
The Federal Aviation Administration lifted its nationwide ground stop on Friday evening, November 13, after more than four hours with no departures from American airports, including Orlando International, and officials warned delays and cancellations will continue while airports and airlines return to full capacity. Secretary Duffy blamed aging air traffic control technology and overloaded routers, said the return to normal will be slow and depends on crew availability, and said airlines will move more aircraft starting Saturday morning. About 15,000 flights were delayed or cancelled across the country on Friday, according to FlightAware data cited by CNN; more than 700 flights within, into or out of the United States are already cancelled for Saturday, and Orlando International told WFTV it expects about 90 cancellations on Saturday.
Live and Let’s Fly — the ground stop lifted, the recovery not finished
The Federal Aviation Administration lifted its nationwide ground stop, allowing departures to resume after a communications outage disrupted air travel across the country, but reopening the system does not mean airline schedules are back to normal. Secretary Duffy announced Friday evening that the system had reopened at 8:15 p.m. Eastern and warned that restoring operations would take time, with recovery efforts continuing Saturday. Secretary Mullin said, “We have seen zero evidence this is a cyber attack,” and officials were also examining how older equipment interacts with newer technology. By 8 p.m. Eastern, FlightAware showed more than 10,000 delays and 5,000 cancellations involving American flights. The agency ordered the stop effective 3:54 p.m. Eastern, according to the Air Traffic Control System Command Center as reported by Gizmodo.
CNN — Russia evasive after the United States says Europe will join the next talks
Russia remained evasive on Friday after American negotiators said European delegates would join the next round of peace talks with Ukraine. Mr. Kushner posted that both sides had agreed to a European presence, and Mr. Witkoff called the move a very big deal, but the Kremlin responded coolly, neither endorsing a European delegation nor flatly rejecting it: “Putin has never refused to engage with the Europeans,” spokesman Dmitry Peskov told journalists on Friday, adding that Moscow would decide on a dialogue in an expanded format once it understood the Europeans’ actual intentions. On Friday, European Council President António Costa said the European team would be represented by the European Union’s institutions and the E5 nations of France, Germany, Italy, Poland and the United Kingdom, and Chancellor Merz told the Americans, “Please, no surprises.” The account also reports the ground war: at least 10 people killed and 48 injured in Ukraine from Thursday into Friday by regional officials’ figures, nearly 1,198 Ukrainian drones intercepted overnight into Friday in the Russian defense ministry’s account, at least eight people killed in Russia in a CNN tally of governors’ figures, Ukrainian strikes on drone production and repair sites at Rostov-on-Don on Friday, and continuing Starshield speed limits on the front line.
Europe Says — the envoys to meet Mr. Putin and President Zelenskyy after the Abu Dhabi talks
American envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner plan to meet Russian leader Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Thursday to continue a push for a peace deal after a second day of talks in Abu Dhabi ended in less than two hours. The envoys want to make more progress on the issues discussed, Mr. Kushner told reporters Wednesday, because they see openings and opportunities; territorial issues remain the hardest part, though the sides agreed on a substantial exchange of prisoners. Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov said Mr. Putin will meet the envoys on Thursday morning, according to Interfax. One aim of the Moscow meeting will be to see if Europeans can be added to the format, Mr. Kushner said. The exchange will exceed 1,000 people on each side and may take place within two to three weeks, Russian General Staff official Alexander Zorin said, according to Interfax; the sides also considered an exchange of up to 1,500 prisoners each. Representatives from the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, NATO and the European Union met the Ukrainian delegation in Abu Dhabi on Tuesday to align positions.
HeadlinesXtra — Europe seeks a role in the talks as Washington pursues the largest prisoner exchange
Envoy Jared Kushner said on Thursday that Washington is working toward what he described as the largest prisoner exchange of Russia’s war against Ukraine, potentially reuniting thousands of people with their families; he provided no timetable, list or terms, and no completed exchange has been announced. Mr. Kushner also said Russia and Ukraine had agreed to include European countries in the next round of American-brokered talks. The distinction is drawn plainly: until Moscow and Kyiv confirm the lists, categories of detainees, verification process and transfer arrangements, the exchange remains a negotiating goal rather than a completed humanitarian operation. The Kremlin did not explicitly confirm that Russia had accepted direct European participation. Names in the debate over Europe’s seat include European Council President António Costa, foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas and Finnish President Alexander Stubb, and leaders of the Union’s 27 member states gathered in Dublin on Friday, November 13, after the European Political Community summit.
SSBCrack News — Ms. Peltola widens her lead in the uncalled Alaska Senate race
Mary Peltola widened her lead over Republican Senator Dan S. Sullivan in the latest count of Alaska’s Senate race, though the contest remained uncalled as ballots continued to be tallied. Incomplete results released Friday night showed Ms. Peltola with 49.8 percent of the vote, nearly four percentage points ahead of Senator Sullivan. A New York Times analysis found she was on track to win, but the outcome will depend on the final count and, if neither candidate secures more than half of the first-choice votes, on Alaska’s ranked-choice tabulation, expected next week. “We’re still waiting for every ballot to be counted,” Nate Adams, a spokesman for Senator Sullivan, said Friday night. The two other candidates, Republican Gerald L. Heikes and Dan J. Sullivan, an unaffiliated candidate whose name resembles the senator’s, have together received about 4 percent of the vote so far. Democrats have won 55 Senate seats in the analysis’s results; a Peltola victory would bring the total to 56.
NewsCord — Ms. Peltola extends her lead after the Alaska ballot count
Alaska’s Division of Elections tallied an additional 5,000 ballots on Thursday, bringing the total counted to over 256,000 and extending Democrat Mary Peltola’s lead over Republican Senator Dan S. Sullivan. Ms. Peltola had 49.1 percent of first-choice votes after Thursday’s count, while Senator Sullivan had 46.8 percent, and her lead grew to 5,800 votes, about 1,825 votes more than her lead on Wednesday. The race remained uncalled as officials expected to have counted all eligible ballots by November 18, and the state would use ranked-choice tabulation if no candidate gets more than 50 percent of first-choice votes. Certification is expected November 25.
USA Today — the Alaska Senate race remains uncalled: live results
Democrat Mary Peltola is holding a narrow lead over Republican Senator Dan Sullivan, putting Democrats within striking distance of another Senate pickup nearly two weeks after Election Day. The paper’s latest tally as of November 13 shows Ms. Peltola with 49.2 percent of the vote to Senator Sullivan’s 47 percent, with about 91.3 percent of ballots counted and more than 256,000 ballots counted as of Friday, according to Alaska’s Division of Elections. With neither candidate above the 50 percent threshold, the race remains uncalled and could advance to ranked-choice tabulation beginning November 18. A Peltola victory would give Democrats 56 Senate seats.
The Business Standard — Iran targets an American radar installation in Bahrain
Iran said its forces hit an American early-warning radar system in Bahrain on Friday, while the United States said it had intercepted the attacks. The Revolutionary Guards initially said in a statement that their air force targeted and destroyed the radar on the island of Bahrain, claiming the attack was retaliation for an American attack on a telecommunications tower in Sirik, on the shores of the Strait of Hormuz. Several hours later, the American military’s Central Command denied the Guards’ claim that the radar was destroyed and said it stopped two one-way attack drones targeting Bahrain, reporting no casualties or damage. The account’s summary of the war, which began with American and Israeli strikes on February 28, describes the present state as de-escalation with the main issues unresolved.
Indian Economic Observer — Central Command denies the radar claim and says two drones were shot down
The United States Central Command on Friday rejected Iran’s claim that its Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps destroyed an American early-warning radar installation in Bahrain, stating that two Iranian one-way attack drones targeting the country were intercepted by American forces without causing any injuries or damage. In a post on X, Central Command wrote: “CLAIM: Today, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said it attacked a ‘U.S. early-warning radar’ in Bahrain. FACT: The IRGC launched two one-way attack drones toward Bahrain and both were shot down by U.S. forces. There were no injuries or damage.” According to Iran’s Fars News Agency, the Guards said their forces targeted the radar approximately an hour after the alleged attack on the telecommunications infrastructure at Sirik.
Times of Maldives — Iran claims the radar strike as President Trump rejects the prospects of a peace deal
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps claimed it destroyed an American early-warning radar system in Bahrain in retaliation for an American strike on a telecommunications tower in southern Iran. Central Command disputed the claim, saying American forces intercepted two Iranian drones and denying that the radar system had been destroyed. President Trump has also dismissed the prospect of a negotiated settlement, declaring that Washington no longer needs a deal with Tehran.
Forbes — Iran brings a new peace proposal after the White House claims the war is terminated
President Trump told Congress in a Friday letter that the war in Iran was terminated, issuing the letter just before a deadline that would have required congressional approval to continue military operations; the White House said approval is not necessary because the war has been terminated. Defense Secretary Hegseth also said Thursday that the ceasefire implemented on April 7 means the 60-day clock pauses or stops. Meanwhile, Iran sent a new peace proposal to Pakistani mediators on Thursday, Iranian state media reported Friday. The Senate rejected the Iran War Powers Resolution for a sixth time on Thursday, and the account notes that President Trump, telling reporters Iran is dying to make a deal, did not intend to seek congressional approval.
The Apex Wire — Nvidia funded startups to buy its own chips, a Journal report says
Nvidia used its own balance sheet to finance artificial-intelligence startups and data-centre operators so they would keep buying its chips instead of letting prices fall, according to a Wall Street Journal report, as the chipmaker closed its worst week since April 2025, down 13 percent and $573 billion in market value. The report says the financing answered a surplus of silicon and memory ordered from Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company: instead of cutting prices, the company funded the customers that would absorb it. Ms. Kress, now interim chief executive, pushed back in a tense August meeting, cutting a proposed OpenAI guarantee from about $250 billion to $125 billion. Nvidia’s filing shows commitments and guarantees of about $530 billion, up from $184 billion a quarter earlier, including $279 billion of supply and capacity obligations and $108.5 billion of maximum gross guarantee exposure. The board is searching for a permanent chief executive and has approached Arm chief executive Rene Haas as one of several candidates, the account says. Nvidia reports third-quarter results on Tuesday, November 17, with Ms. Kress presenting.
Medium — the man who was Nvidia: what happens now that Mr. Huang is gone
At 7:17 p.m. Indian time on Thursday, November 12, Nvidia posted a press release only a few lines long: Mr. Huang had resigned as president, chief executive and director, effective immediately, carrying no words from Mr. Huang. Five weeks earlier, on October 6, Nvidia closed at a record $239.24 a share, worth about $5.78 trillion; on Friday it traded near $160. The November 14 update records that the House Foreign Affairs Committee moved Mr. Huang’s appearance from November 18 to December 1 and warned it would subpoena him if he stopped cooperating; that Representative Mast said Mr. Huang had signalled he would appear; that Wired reported an internal petition asking the board to bring Mr. Huang back had passed 1,600 comments; and that the board is searching for a permanent chief executive, weighing candidates from inside and outside the company. Earnings land on November 17, with guidance of $108 billion in revenue, assuming no data-centre chip sales to China, and Ms. Kress will host the call.
Stockbiz — Mr. Huang faces a subpoena from Congress
Nvidia’s board of directors confirmed on November 12 that Mr. Huang had stepped down as chief executive following pressure over allegations involving his private life, and appointed finance chief Colette Kress to lead the group temporarily. On the same day, leaders of three House committees sent a letter asking Mr. Huang to attend a closed-door interview on December 1; the former chief executive had until 8 p.m. on November 13 to agree, or could face a compulsory subpoena, Reuters reported. In the Senate, Banking Committee chairman Tim Scott also asked Mr. Huang and Commerce Secretary Lutnick to testify voluntarily on December 3, while warning subpoenas could be issued if the two did not cooperate. The item runs under the paper’s international headlines for November 14.
Reuters, via WIXX — producer prices rise moderately in October, but inflation broadens out
American producer prices rose moderately in October, but inflation at the factory gate posted its largest annual gain in four years, supporting the view that the Federal Reserve could continue raising interest rates after next month’s widely expected increase. The Producer Price Index for final demand rose 0.3 percent last month after an upwardly revised 1.4 percent surge in September, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said, and shot up 6.5 percent year over year in October, the largest annual gain since November 2022, after advancing 6.3 percent in September. With the producer and consumer data in hand, economists estimated core personal consumption expenditures inflation rose 0.3 percent in October, and forecast it advancing 3.2 percent over the year. Financial markets anticipated another increase in borrowing costs in January, the CME FedWatch tool showed, wavering between a quarter-point hike in December and room for a half-point increase. Governor Waller’s comments and the hot consumer readings stand behind the pricing; the target range stands at 3.75 to 4.00 percent.
CoinGabbar — the October producer data puts the December Federal Reserve hike in focus
The October producer price data landed on November 13, 2026, and sent a mixed message: monthly producer inflation slowed to 0.3 percent, below the 0.4 percent economists expected, yet the annual rate climbed to 6.5 percent, the highest since November 2022, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The Federal Reserve meets December 8 and 9. According to market-based reports, the odds of a 25-basis-point hike rose from 76 percent to 89 percent after the consumer release. Chicago Fed President Goolsbee is quoted saying inflation is going the wrong way. The account’s caution stands in its own text: no data release can confirm a hike; only the Federal Reserve can announce its decision, after its December meeting.
Particle News — Spain’s two-week campaign kicks off as parties race to mobilize voters
The official campaign opened on Friday, November 13, with Prime Minister 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. Begoña 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 regional leader Alfonso Rueda urging voters to channel discontent with the government into support for Mr. Feijóo and to prevent Vox from becoming decisive. A GAD3 survey for ABC gives the Popular Party a clear advantage while the state survey projects a Socialist lead, so turnout and tight regional contests such as La Rioja could decide which bloc reaches the 176 seats needed for a progressive majority. Recent events shaping the campaign include the Urda train accident and ministerial fallout and judicial probes touching Socialist circles.
RussPain — the Wild interviews lay bare divisions over housing and migration in Spain
Broadcaster Jordi Wild’s campaign interviews put competing positions on housing and migration in focus, alongside a dispute over Ceuta. On housing, Mr. Sánchez wants to change the land law to enable more construction, Ms. Colau opposes speculation, and Mr. Feijóo backed building more homes, linking a million new properties to 500,000 jobs, in a campaign unfolding amid an acute housing-affordability crisis; the housing measures followed a general strike and large demonstrations over housing costs, the Associated Press reported. On the economy, Mr. Sánchez said Spain was experiencing one of the strongest periods in its democratic history and pointed to increases in the minimum wage and pensions; Mr. Feijóo disputed the positive assessment, saying he did not believe the data. On migration, Mr. Feijóo claimed half a million immigrants were receiving payments despite not having worked a single hour in the previous year. Ms. Colau called for tax reform so people with greater wealth pay more, and described Mr. Feijóo as a sincere man of the right.
Demócrata — Mr. Sánchez reproaches Mr. Feijóo for not having learned English
The president of the Government and candidate for re-election, Pedro Sánchez, criticized the leader of the Popular Party, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, for not speaking English or having made an effort to learn it, and highlighted what he called the lack of knowledge Mr. Abascal showed about the pension system, at the official start of the campaign in Arnedo, La Rioja. Mr. Sánchez called for mobilization to reach 75 percent turnout on November 29 and to secure an absolute majority. The paper’s mean of polls, at November 13 across 15 institutes, stands at Popular Party 31.4 percent, Socialists 26.8, Vox 19.1, Frente Amplio 6.3 and ERC 2.4.