Duffy says a router installed by an L3Harris contractor flooded the FAA’s telecom network and caused Friday’s nationwide ground stop.
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said Saturday that the contractor was replacing old copper line with fiber at a remote FAA facility. The newly installed router then flooded the network with over 1,000 connection attempts every 4–5 seconds, and radio and radar gaps spread from site to site. Officials found no evidence of a cyberattack.
- 1,000 dots, one per connection attempt from the new router in a single 4–5 second burst. Duffy said over 1,000; drawn at 1,000. Dots are not aircraft.
- 17 of the 22 high-altitude centers had unstable voice and ground links, Bedford said, per the BBC.
- 5 the other centers.
The ring is schematic, not a map. Which 17 has not been reported.
Duffy blamed the system’s age: “It was the old legacy equipment. It failed. And listen, it’s going to continue to fail.” By his own account, though, the part that flooded the network was the newly installed router. Investigators have not settled whether it was installed wrong or was defective. “What we’re working to determine is whether we had incompetence or did they install a faulty router,” Duffy said.
“We have one federal telephony infrastructure. We don’t have two, but one.”Bryan Bedford, FAA Administrator
L3Harris has run the FAA’s telecom network since 2002. Friday’s was only the second nationwide ground stop since the Sept. 11 attacks, per the AP; the other came in January 2023, when the FAA’s pilot-notice system failed.
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The Pan American Health Organization has found measles spreading nonstop in the U.S., ending its elimination status after 26 years, researchers told KFF Health News.
PAHO, the World Health Organization’s office for the Americas, has not announced the ruling; it is due Tuesday, Nov. 17. Elimination means measles has not spread in one unbroken chain for 12 months or more. The U.S. had held the label since 2000.
The CDC counts 5,412 cases in 2026, the most since 1991, when there were 9,643.
Cases have turned up in 45 states and D.C., and more than 590 people have been hospitalized, CBS News reports. Pennsylvania alone has more than 1,500 cases; CBS and The Atlantic count seven deaths there, Axios six. Keeping measles out takes a vaccination rate above 95%, Axios reports. Anne Schuchat, a former CDC deputy director, told KFF Health News it is “a very sad moment.”
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Zelensky says U.S. negotiators asked, for the first time, whether Ukraine would leave Donbas in exchange for NATO membership.
He said Kyiv still won’t give up the land or recognize occupied territory as Russian. But if the U.S. and other NATO allies confirm a package of security guarantees, a strong army and rebuilding money, he would put it to a national referendum. He called it “an extremely difficult conversation.”
What the trade would have to clear first
- NATO. Every ally must agree to invite Ukraine, then each ratifies; in the U.S. that takes two-thirds of the Senate.
- The vote. Ukrainian law bars any referendum under martial law, so parliament would first have to amend two statutes.
- The border. A legal border change needs its own nationwide referendum, and the constitution cannot be amended while martial law lasts.
Russia occupies roughly one-fifth of Ukraine after 4½ years of war. In a KIIS poll taken Oct. 8–16, 61% of Ukrainians called handing Russia the rest of Donbas for U.S. and European security guarantees categorically unacceptable; 35% would accept it.
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Experts told The Atlantic that China’s spy service more likely recruited Alice Huang after her affair with Jensen Huang began than planted her; the U.S. has released no evidence.
Jensen Huang resigned as Nvidia’s CEO on Nov. 12, days after admitting an affair. Alice Huang is a former executive at Megaspeed, a buyer of Nvidia chips. Officials took the concern seriously enough that Trump was briefed on it twice, late last year and again this spring, the New York Times reports.
Who has shown what
- U.S. officials
- Have not made their evidence public. CIA officials are not convinced intercepted communications prove she knowingly passed information to Beijing, CNN reports.
- Singapore
- Its probe covered possible false server-purchase declarations, not espionage. It found too little evidence to charge her, but barred her from returning for misleading police about her role.
- Beijing
- Calls the allegations baseless.
China’s National Intelligence Law requires citizens to cooperate with state intelligence work. House chairs want Jensen Huang for a closed-door, transcribed interview on Dec. 1; whether he confirmed by Friday’s deadline has not been made public.
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U.S. intelligence puts Iran’s missile arsenal at 1,500 to 2,500, a low-confidence estimate, days after Trump called the war “effectively over.”
Officials told the Wall Street Journal it is hard to track how many missiles Iran has ready to launch or in storage. The Journal reports the rebuilt stockpile has come up in administration talks about whether to resume strikes.
A Western official told Bloomberg on Nov. 10 that Iran can build about 50 ballistic missiles a month, roughly half its prewar pace. Trump told radio host Hugh Hewitt on Thursday that he “would not hesitate” if things don’t work out.
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A judge barred the government from searching its copy of an immigration lawyer’s phone, finding the seizure was likely retaliation for his speech.
U.S. District Judge Allison Burroughs in Boston ruled Friday that border agents likely violated the First Amendment when they seized and copied the phone of Andrew Lattarulo, an immigration lawyer who runs a popular know-your-rights Instagram account. The government must keep its copy locked in an unreadable format until the case ends.
Two lawyers from the same firm, one trip
Andrew Lattarulo
Runs a know-your-rights Instagram account. Stopped at Boston’s Logan Airport on Sept. 28, 2025, three days after his firm got a federal notice about suspect hiring documents. Phone taken without a warrant, fully copied and returned eight days later.
SearchedAudai Cote
Ran the firm’s hiring-paperwork compliance, with equal or greater access to the records. Made no public statements. Flew home from the same trip a day earlier.
Not searchedThe government offered no evidence that phone searches are normal in this kind of hiring probe, the judge wrote. She declined, for now, to order the copy destroyed, and the order sets no end date. The government says it has more evidence supporting the search but withheld it to protect its investigation.