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Big stories of the day — November 14, 2026 - Nari - 11-14-2026
Saturday. The country spent Friday afternoon on the ground, and the weekend is still sorting itself out.
1. The FAA put every plane in America on the ground
For about four and a half hours on Friday, nothing took off anywhere in the United States. The ground stop went up at 3:54 p.m. ET after radar and radio data started disagreeing at air traffic control centers with more than 3,500 planes already in the air — controllers walked that down to fewer than 400 before the order was lifted at 8:15 p.m. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy blamed decades-old analog switches and routers that got "overloaded with data," and there is no evidence of a cyberattack. By 8 p.m. FlightAware had counted more than 5,000 cancellations and close to 10,000 delays, and the totals kept climbing overnight, so expect ripple cancellations into Monday. It is the third nationwide ground stop in American history, after September 11 and the January 2023 NOTAM failure — and the honest read is that the system nobody wants to pay to replace just showed everyone its age. CNN
2. The US, China and Russia are going to sit in one room
The White House said Friday that Trump, Xi Jinping and Putin will meet together on Thursday, on the sidelines of the APEC summit in Shenzhen — the first time the leaders of all three nuclear powers have shared a table. The stated agenda is reducing nuclear arsenals, with Iran also on the list; Ukraine pointedly is not, and a senior official told reporters not to expect any agreement at all. New START expired in February, which left the two largest arsenals uncapped for the first time in more than fifty years. Beijing and Moscow hadn't commented as of Saturday, and Chinese state media have confirmed only bilaterals. A first conversation is still only a conversation, but it's one that didn't exist last week. BBC News
3. Three tankers burning in Hormuz, and two incompatible versions of the day
Iran's navy and Revolutionary Guard said Saturday that three oil tankers struck mines and caught fire in the Strait of Hormuz — one of them a supertanker — all accused of running the passage with their tracking switched off. Al Jazeera counts seven such incidents in a 24-hour stretch. The US military maintains it has cleared the main routes through the strait of mines, which is an odd thing to say on a day with three fires in it. UK Maritime Trade Operations puts traffic through Hormuz roughly 65% below pre-war levels, and the UN says it has confirmed 134 maritime incidents in the region since February, at a cost of 25 seafarers' lives. None of Saturday's strikes has been independently verified, including the parts where the two accounts cannot both be right. CNA / AFP
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