November 13, 2026
November 13, 2026
The Federal Aviation Administration ordered a nationwide ground stop Friday at all U.S. airports, halting departures due to a telecommunications outage affecting air traffic control centers. Issued by the Air Traffic Control System Command Center under extraordinary safety circumstances, it marks only the second such event since 9/11, following a 2023 incident. Officials including Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy and Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin confirmed...
The pressure campaign that forced Jensen Huang out as Nvidia's CEO has the hallmarks of a deliberate political and media operation. An editor at "The Federalist" made the point clearly in a recent conversation with Megyn Kelly: the attack was launched in The New York Times-the flagship of the institutional left-shortly after a Blue Wave election cycle, and it followed the familiar pattern Democrats use when they decide a powerful man must be destroyed. Personal conduct is...
Sophie Silva, a New York City-based content creator and influencer who graduated from UCLA in 2024 with a degree in Global Studies, says she was invited roughly an hour before a Scrooge-related promotional event at Bryant Park's Winter Village Christmas market. The appearance featured actor Johnny Depp in full costume and character as Ebenezer Scrooge for Paramount's upcoming film *Ebenezer*. The November 2, 2026, event was a staged publicity stunt ahead of the film's...
Nithya Raman, a 45-year-old Democratic socialist and member of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), has been elected mayor of Los Angeles, the nation's second-largest city. She defeated one-term incumbent Karen Bass in the November 3, 2026, general election. With roughly 76% of expected votes counted as of Thursday, November 5, Raman held approximately 52% of the vote (about 429,450 votes) to Bass's 48% (about 394,796 votes), a lead of roughly 35,000 votes. Bass...
The Pipe-Smoking Ninth Grader Who Became Chief of Staff I was Stephen Miller's first boss. In 2001–2002 a 15- or 16-year-old Santa Monica High School student walked into the offices of the Santa Monica Observer and asked if he could write local editorials. That kid was Steve Miller. Even then he was serious, cerebral, quiet, and studied. At an age when most teenagers think about baseball or girls, he was reading, thinking, and writing about policy. He showed up in a jacket...
Did California Democrats cheat to win the election in California? I mean, not that they have to. But the math isn't mathing. In the days after California's November 3, 2026, social media posts about the general election highlighted unusually consistent margins across major statewide races pitting Democrats against Republicans. Screenshots circulating widely showed candidates for governor, lieutenant governor, secretary of state, controller, treasurer, and attorney general all...
Roads around Santa Monica Place in downtown Santa Monica are blocked off today as crews install large electronic billboards on the exterior of the shopping center. The work is part of the city's new Digital Display District, which permits up to 16 digital screens-each as large as 1,000 square feet-on corner buildings along the Third Street Promenade and on four faces of Santa Monica Place. The City Council approved the ordinance in late 2025 (final adoption in January 2026),...
NORTH HOLLYWOOD, Calif. A 61-year-old Valley Village man has been arrested on suspicion of three counts of murder and felony driving under the influence after authorities say his white Toyota Sienna left the roadway and struck pedestrians and food vendors on the sidewalk outside the North Hollywood Metro station Tuesday evening, 11.10.26, killing three women. The crash occurred shortly before 6 p.m. on November 10 in the 5300 block of North Lankershim Boulevard near Chandler...
DUBLIN - Former U.S. President Joe Biden and members of his family were met by pro-Palestinian demonstrators who threw milk cartons and other objects and chanted hostile slogans as they left a ceremony at Trinity College Dublin on Tuesday evening. Biden, accompanied by former First Lady Jill Biden, had attended the event in the college's Exam Hall, where their son Hunter received the Gold Medal for Outstanding Contribution to Public Discourse from the College Historical...
