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The FAA ordered all departing flights at every U.S. airport to stay on the ground from 3:54 p.m. ET on Friday after a telecommunications outage hit all Air Route Traffic Control Centers. Officials said there was no sign of an attack, every flight was accounted for, and more than 10,000 flights were delayed and 2,500 cancelled by 6 p.m. ET, with no lifting time announced.
Published 2026-11-13 · Awaaz Punjab
Ladghar and Guhagar in Ratnagiri and Shrivardhan in Raigad have received Blue Flag certification for the 2026-27 season, marking Maharashtra's first entry into the international eco-label programme and taking India's tally to 22 beaches.
Published 2026-11-13 · Awaaz Punjab
Tevin Brandt, 33, faces two second-degree murder counts over the March 4, 2023 deaths of Karime Duarte, 21, and her 15-year-old sister, who were delivering newspapers when, prosecutors allege, a phone-tracking signal mistakenly led Brandt to their car. The phone was later found in another vehicle.
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Aaron Brown, 46, a convicted felon with no firearms licence of any kind, allegedly sold privately made rifles, ammunition and a suppressor to a man working with federal agents from July 2024 to October 2026 — and allegedly warned that if he were caught, "it's going to suck for the officer(s)."
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A Delhi-to-Chhatarpur bus caught fire on the Raya Cut Bridge in the early hours of Saturday. Police said all 40 passengers were evacuated in time and no casualties were reported; a short circuit is suspected and the cause is under investigation.
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Himachal Pradesh Police have registered a case against the Mandi MP under three Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita sections after a Shimla resident alleged her November 10 posts were inflammatory. The allegations are under investigation and Ranaut had not publicly responded in wire reports.
Published 2026-11-13 · Awaaz Punjab
A five-count superseding indictment unsealed November 13 adds a D.C. act-of-terrorism-while-armed count to the four federal charges Allen already faced over the April 25 shooting at the Washington Hilton. Awaaz Punjab previously reported his September 2027 trial date.
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FIRE said on November 13 that the government agreed to make permanent Judge Jorge Alonso's injunction barring formal or informal federal pressure on Facebook and Apple to suppress the ICE Sightings – Chicagoland group and the Eyes Up app.
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Norway's Supreme Court ruled on Friday, by six votes to five, that the government's approvals for three North Sea oil and gas developments — Breidablikk, Tyrving and the Yggdrasil area — are invalid because their climate assessments failed to properly count the emissions from burning the oil and gas, including the cumulative impact across the Norwegian shelf. The court stressed the ruling does not automatically end the permits or stop production: the government must now reconsider each approval.
Published 2026-11-13 · Awaaz Punjab
The bitumen tanker Atlantic Asphalt struck the paddlewheel riverboat at about 12:30 p.m. CT as it disembarked passengers at the Port of New Orleans. Mayor Helena Moreno said everyone was accounted for and none of the 32 hospitalised was critical; the Coast Guard closed the river nearby and the NTSB is sending a Go Team on Saturday.
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Governor Kathy Hochul announced on Friday, November 13, that State Route 9J in Stuyvesant has reopened in both directions, less than four months after a late-July storm dropped more than 11 inches of rain and floodwater eroded the Mill Creek bridge's foundation. Crews rebuilt the crossing on prefabricated interlocking concrete superblocks; finishing work will continue for weeks and no final cost was given.
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State Police announced on November 13 that the October 30–November 1 campaign produced 7,798 tickets, 243 DWI arrests and 694 crash investigations, including two fatal crashes — up from 7,651 tickets and 196 DWI arrests last year. Speeding led the categories with 2,778 tickets, and the totals cover State Police only, not every department in New York.
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At least three legal observers were shoved and pepper-sprayed shortly before 7 p.m. on Thursday, the rapid-response network alleges — an allegation ICE has not publicly answered and the sheriff's office says it has no information about, after a day in which four federal vehicles were photographed outside the jail and a just-released person called the group's hotline.
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The CDC's weekly update, replacing the 5,182 cases reported a week earlier, added 230 cases and two deaths to its count — while state departments together report 10 deaths — as a PAHO commission prepares to decide whether the US keeps the measles elimination status it has held since 2000.
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Attorneys general from 12 states began appealing Judge Carl Nichols' September injunction on Thursday — the order that stopped the Postal Service from demanding state voter lists before delivering mail ballots. The Trump administration's own appeal position is still unclear.
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In a November 13 statement, DHS said ICE lodged a detainer on November 5 for Julio Cesar Vazquez Hernandez after a domestic-violence arrest in San Diego — and that the jail released him anyway. The claims about his record are the department's allegations.
Published 2026-11-13 · Awaaz Punjab
A federal judge in a Friday, November 13, 2026 order made permanent an injunction barring the government from demanding or pressuring Apple and Facebook to suppress Eyes Up, the ICE-video platform created by Brown County, Indiana's Mark Hodges, and the “ICE Sightings – Chicagoland” group run by Kae Rosado — resolving FIRE's First Amendment lawsuit against the Justice and Homeland Security departments.
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In the first ruling applying the 2019 Keep Washington Working Act, Judge Marla L. Polin found the sheriff's office sent daily jail lists to immigration authorities, shared release times and allowed questioning without written consent — and entered a permanent injunction.
Published 2026-11-13 · Awaaz Punjab
The brother of the late CJNG leader El Mencho pleaded guilty in Washington to cocaine and meth conspiracy and a firearm count; prosecutors had sought 30 years, his lawyers 20 — the judge imposed 22 and a half years.
Published 2026-11-13 · Awaaz Punjab
Florida Highway Patrol investigators say Quonteria Dixon processed at least 10 fraudulent licence transactions at the Sunrise DHSMV office, feeding a ring that financed a $134,000 Lexus and other vehicles under victims' names. She was arrested Thursday and awaited a bond hearing Friday in Pompano Beach.
Published 2026-11-13 · Awaaz Punjab
The Florida Supreme Court publicly reprimanded Sixth Circuit Judge Jennifer Dubbeld and suspended her for 20 days without pay after she admitted a disparaging post about her opponent, misleading endorsement photos and QR-code flyers soliciting donations — the exact sanction the Judicial Qualifications Commission recommended.
Published 2026-11-13 · Awaaz Punjab
Carmel police were called to the 13900 block of Wildcat Drive, near Hazel Dell Parkway, at about 10:21 p.m. on Thursday, November 12, after reports of shots fired inside a home. Officers found a woman unresponsive; she was declared dead at the scene, and Xinjian Yang, 53, of Carmel was taken into custody and lodged in the Hamilton County Jail on a preliminary charge of murder.
Published 2026-11-13 · Awaaz Punjab
A Seneca County grand jury on Thursday declined to indict any officer in the July 7 shooting of 43-year-old Jeffrey R. Sergent of Bloomville, finding the use of deadly force legally justified. The decision, announced by Prosecutor Derek W. DeVine's office on November 12, closes the criminal review of a nine-minute roadside stop that ended with two deputies firing into Sergent's truck.
Published 2026-11-13 · Awaaz Punjab
The National Park Service closed Trail Ridge Road (U.S. 34) to through-vehicle travel on November 13, 2026, gating the route at Many Parks Curve on the east side and the Colorado River Trailhead on the west side. Eleven of the road's 48 miles sit above 11,500 feet with few guardrails and no shoulders, and the road typically reopens in the last week of May — in 2026 it opened on May 29. Bear Lake Road and Endovalley Road remain open this winter.
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