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Jake Tapper 🦅 retweeted
EXCLUSIVE: The U.S. has lost its measles-elimination status, a stunning reversal for a nation that has kept the vaccine-preventable disease at bay for decades. wsj.com/health/u-s-loses-mea… from @l_e_whyte + me
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Today’s nationwide ground stop happened because our air traffic control system is operating on DECADES-OLD, analog equipment that simply cannot compete with the demands of the 21st century.
@FAANews is modernizing this aging infrastructure thanks to a $12.5 billion down payment secured by President Trump, but that isn't ENOUGH.
@POTUS is asking Congress to give us the resources to build a state-of-the-art air traffic control system. Let’s not do a patchwork fix to a system that’s critical for every single family.
It’s time for Congress to act. Give us the money to fix it. PASS THE MODERN SKIES ACT NOW.
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Defendant fired multiple rounds, from two different positions, into a rec center playground, striking a child. He was in possession of two illegal firearms, illegal ammo and narcotics.
Verdict: Probation
In case you're wondering why DC cops might seem unmotivated at times.
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The nationwide ground stop lifted at 8:15pm ET.
Here’s a breakdown of today’s timeline:
- At 3:36 p.m. ET, @FAANews experienced telecommunications issues at facilities & TRACONs across the country
- The FAA issued a ground stop out of an abundance of caution while 3,500+ planes were in the air
- Pilots and air traffic controllers followed established procedures to safely land the aircraft, bringing the number in the airspace down to under 400 as of 8pm ET
- The FAA confirms they did not lose all radar or telecom, and exceptions were made to allow critical medevac, life-saving cargo, and law enforcement flights to continue operating
.@SecDuffy walks through what happened today that led to the FAA's ground stop order
FlightAware:
Total delays today: 26,097
Total delays within, into, or out of the United States today: 10,243
Total cancellations today: 3,947
Total cancellations within, into, or out of the United States today: 3,288
flightaware.com/live/cancell…
Again: National Weather Service is up and running, information from outdated NWS pages is circulating but not accurate NWS says
In case you heard otherwise, there is no radar outage and radar.weather.gov is fully operational! Outdated content from isolated webpages stating otherwise has been circulating, but NWS radars are operating normally.
This outdated content appears to be why the congressman shared the erroneous info earlier about NWS (and why there are some reports of it out there) but NWS says it is not accurate, that is outdated content —
In case you heard otherwise, there is no radar outage and radar.weather.gov is fully operational! Outdated content from isolated webpages stating otherwise has been circulating, but NWS radars are operating normally.
Jake Tapper 🦅 retweeted
In case you heard otherwise, there is no radar outage and radar.weather.gov is fully operational! Outdated content from isolated webpages stating otherwise has been circulating, but NWS radars are operating normally.
Jake Tapper 🦅 retweeted
There has been a temporary telecommunications outage - out of an abundance of caution all flights have been halted. Every flight has been accounted for and international flights will be handled on a case by case basis.
DHS Secretary Mullen wouldn't rule out any cause of FAA comms issue.
Said he didn't see evidence of link w Microsoft outage, or a cyberattack, or being related to rollout of the FAA new AI program SMART, announced nationwide Tuesday. (See below)
faa.gov/newsroom/statements/…
Mayor of NOLA says zero people unaccounted for, no critical injuries, in the collision between the tanker and a river cruiser near Port of New Orleans.
Air Traffic Control System Command Center:
ALL AIRPORTS ARE GROUND STOPPED. ALL DEPARTING TRAFFIC SHOULD REMAIN GROUND STOPPED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE.
FAA issues nationwide ground stop for ALL FLIGHTS.
One government source tells me it's a communications issue that started in the NE and spread nationwide.
Cause has not yet been determined.
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NEW: Intel intercepts implicating Jensen Huang in affair sparked classified Rubio memo
The US intelligence community intercepted communications in the spring indicating that an executive of Megaspeed, a company under investigation for possibly diverting sensitive technology to China, was having an affair with a US person.
The American was “masked” in the intelligence reporting, a standard procedure used by intelligence agencies to protect the privacy of US persons whose communications might be picked up during the monitoring of foreign targets, sources familiar with the matter told CNN.
But upon seeing the raw intelligence, US officials requested that the American’s name be “unmasked”— revealing the individual to be the now-former NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang, the sources said.
Marco Rubio then drafted a memo summarizing the intelligence and disseminated it to a very small group of senior US officials, including at the White House, the sources said. cnn.com/2026/11/13/politics/…
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I know nobody expects this kind of civility in our electoral politics these days, but Republicans across Mississippi continue to offer congratulations to Scott Colom.
Here's a statement from Republican Mississippi House Rep. Jansen Owen:
Congratulations to Senator-elect @scott_colom. Elections are often hard-fought, and disagreements over politics, policy, and the direction of our country and our state are part of our democracy. But when the campaigning ends, our shared responsibility to the people we serve remains. You will be my Senator- and my People’s Senator. Your success is our success. May God bless you and give you the direction that only He can provide as you lead our state into the future.
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