JustAnotherDay.CA — Saturday, November 14, 2026

Shock as national plane grounding comes after union left out of safety tests

Reactions were mounting on Friday after the Federal Aviation Administration issued a rare nationwide ground stop for all flights in the United States, citing "extraordinary circumstances" and safety concerns.The FAA cited a communications issue amid reports that the agency had started using a new AI tool. This is the third time the FAA has grounded all national flights; the first was on Sept. 11, 2001. A second time was in 2023 during a system outage. Secretary Sean Duffy shared a statement on social media and updates on the situation."The @FAAnews issued a nationwide ground stop for all U.S. airports following a communication issue impacting all Air Route Traffic Control Centers. FAA technicians are investigating the issue. We will provide immediate updates as we have them," Duffy wrote.The news drew responses on social media.Marcy Wheeler, a national security journalist, pointed out the timing in a post on Bluesky."Yesterday," Wheeler wrote, sharing an Ars Technica report from Thursday indicating that a union representing the air traffic controllers had not had the opportunity to weigh in on or test the new technology.CNN's Hadas Gold reported officials said it was not tied to a national security concern."Law enforcement sources tell my colleagues preliminary reports indicate this is NOT a cyberattack via @evanperez @HBRabinowitz," Gold wrote on X.Rapper Flavor Flav was at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport and shared on update on Bluesky."Ground stop will be 'multiple hours' This has been Flavor Flav from the Atlanta Airport. And now to Chuck D from JFK," he wrote on Bluesky.Others also reacted."Key lawmakers are in the dark at the moment about the ground stop. FAA has been reaching out but they do not have answers thus far," Punchbowl News founder Jake Sherman wrote on X."Simply: Sean @SecDuffy is a moron," political commentator and former MSNBC host Keith Olbermann wrote on X.Editor's Note: This story was updated with additional information about the FAA outage in 2023.

More than 250 flights delayed at O'Hare, Midway amid nationwide FAA ground stop

The Federal Aviation Administration’s decision to ground all flights nationwide for several hours Friday threw the sports world into chaos, leaving NBA, NHL and college teams scrambling to reach their destinations in time for games this weekend.Transportation officials cited "extraordinary circumstances" caused by communications issues at regional air traffic control centers for the stoppage. It left some teams searching for hotel rooms, others rescheduling flights, leagues adjusting start times, and some teams had took the extraordinary step of chartering buses rather than waiting for the ground stop to end."We’re going to allow for general aviation, those larger movements, to take place as a priority. Smaller movements will take lower priority," Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said after the ground stop was lifted Friday night in Washington.No. 19 Mississippi's football game at Oklahoma was moved from Saturday to Sunday at 1 p.m. EST because of travel issues. Oklahoma athletic director Roger Denny was upset with the decision, saying the Southeastern Conference threatened Oklahoma with a forfeit it did not agree to the move."I understand that difficult decisions sometimes must be made under extraordinary circumstances," Denny said in a statement on X. "Put simply, this decision isn't fair to our athletes, our institution or to Sooner nation.”Most college football teams playing Saturday travel the day before their game, and the stoppage left many schools — including No. 2 Utah, No. 8 Texas and No. 9 Tennessee — at a standstill as they departed for road games. The Utes play at No. 22 Arizona, the Longhorns visit No. 24 LSU and the Vols are traveling to Texas A&M in three of the bigger games of the weekend. "The Southeastern Conference is aware of the FAA’s nationwide ground stop and the potential impact on team travel," the league said. “The safety and well-being of student-athletes, coaches and team personnel remain our highest priority."Texas and Tennessee both returned to their campuses during the ground stoppage. Once it was lifted following more than four hours of uncertainty, the schools began making plans to fly out as soon as possible, allowing them to arrive before game day.Auburn opted to take a bus to Mississippi State with the SEC pushing back the Saturday start time from noon EST to 4:15 p.m. to give the Tigers a little buffer. Purdue likewise decided to board buses from West Lafayette, Indiana, for its game at Iowa.Other schools affected by the stoppage included Baylor, Washington, Kansas State, Minnesota and Arizona State.The Big 12 said the Kansas-West Virginia game scheduled for 5:30 p.m. EST would be moved up to 3:30 p.m. since the Jayhawks arrived in plenty of time. That allowed the league to shift the Arizona State-UCF game from 2:30 p.m. EST to 5:30 p.m., giving the Sun Devils an additional three hours after their flight from Arizona to Florida was delayed.Washington spokesman Kurt Svoboda said the Huskies returned to campus when their flight was grounded, but officials stayed in touch with their airline partners and the flight crew remained in place. The Huskies ultimately flew out late Friday for their game at Michigan State on Saturday, which will start at 5:30 p.m. EST, 75 minutes later than originally scheduled. It was unclear whether any referees, who typically fly to their assignments the day before games, would have trouble reaching their games. The Big Ten said in a statement that all of its officials had arrived for their scheduled assignments Saturday.Several teams were able to take off before the stoppage began, including all of those traveling in the Atlantic Coast Conference; Missouri, which was flying to top-ranked Georgia; Duke, which was visiting fifth-ranked Miami; and No. 10 Texas Tech, which posted on social media images of its arrival for a game at Oklahoma State.NFL teams playing Sunday typically travel the day before their games. They were expected to fly as planned on Saturday.In the NBA, the Cleveland Cavaliers played in Miami on Friday night but won't fly home until Saturday morning and plan to land about eight hours before a home game against the Dallas Mavericks. NBA teams hardly ever fly in on the day of a game, but there have been some circumstances — often weather-related — where it has happened.At least two other NBA teams had Friday night flights pushed to Saturday morning, but those teams aren’t playing Saturday night. Cleveland scrambled to get hotel rooms re-booked in Miami, after checking out of their hotel earlier Friday."It's part of it. You just adapt," Cleveland coach Kenny Atkinson said.There are 14 scheduled games in the NHL on Saturday. The Panthers were among the majority that made it to their destinations before the stoppage began. The Sharks, who were left waiting in San Jose to see whether they would be able to travel, arrived later Friday in Utah.JuJu Watkins and her third-ranked Southern California teammates were trying to get to South Carolina for their game Sunday against the top-ranked Gamecocks. The team had just boarded its flight at Los Angeles International Airport when the ground stop was issued. After a while, the decision was made to deboard passengers and the team returned to the Galen Center.In soccer, the Utah Royals already were in the Washington, D.C., area ahead of their National Women’s Soccer League semifinal against the Washington Spirit on Saturday. But the Kansas City Current were supposed to depart Friday for their semifinal against Gotham FC on Sunday in New York, and team officials were uncertain when their flight would be allowed to leave.The U.S. national team’s match against Haiti on Saturday in Miami was unaffected by the ground stop. Both teams and officials already were in town for the first leg of the two-match CONCACAF Nations League quarterfinal series.___AP Sports Writers Jim Vertuno, Aaron Beard, Tim Reynolds, Larry Lage and Beth Harris contributed to this report.

FAA lifts nationwide ground stop issued due to 'extraordinary circumstances,' safety concerns

The Federal Aviation Administration’s decision to ground all flights nationwide for several hours Friday threw the sports world into chaos, leaving NBA, NHL and college teams scrambling to reach their destinations in time for games this weekend.Transportation officials cited "extraordinary circumstances" caused by communications issues at regional air traffic control centers for the stoppage. It left some teams searching for hotel rooms, others rescheduling flights, leagues adjusting start times, and some teams had took the extraordinary step of chartering buses rather than waiting for the ground stop to end."We’re going to allow for general aviation, those larger movements, to take place as a priority. Smaller movements will take lower priority," Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said after the ground stop was lifted Friday night in Washington.No. 19 Mississippi's football game at Oklahoma was moved from Saturday to Sunday at 1 p.m. EST because of travel issues. Oklahoma athletic director Roger Denny was upset with the decision, saying the Southeastern Conference threatened Oklahoma with a forfeit it did not agree to the move."I understand that difficult decisions sometimes must be made under extraordinary circumstances," Denny said in a statement on X. "Put simply, this decision isn't fair to our athletes, our institution or to Sooner nation.”Most college football teams playing Saturday travel the day before their game, and the stoppage left many schools — including No. 2 Utah, No. 8 Texas and No. 9 Tennessee — at a standstill as they departed for road games. The Utes play at No. 22 Arizona, the Longhorns visit No. 24 LSU and the Vols are traveling to Texas A&M in three of the bigger games of the weekend. "The Southeastern Conference is aware of the FAA’s nationwide ground stop and the potential impact on team travel," the league said. “The safety and well-being of student-athletes, coaches and team personnel remain our highest priority."Texas and Tennessee both returned to their campuses during the ground stoppage. Once it was lifted following more than four hours of uncertainty, the schools began making plans to fly out as soon as possible, allowing them to arrive before game day.Auburn opted to take a bus to Mississippi State with the SEC pushing back the Saturday start time from noon EST to 4:15 p.m. to give the Tigers a little buffer. Purdue likewise decided to board buses from West Lafayette, Indiana, for its game at Iowa.Other schools affected by the stoppage included Baylor, Washington, Kansas State, Minnesota and Arizona State.The Big 12 said the Kansas-West Virginia game scheduled for 5:30 p.m. EST would be moved up to 3:30 p.m. since the Jayhawks arrived in plenty of time. That allowed the league to shift the Arizona State-UCF game from 2:30 p.m. EST to 5:30 p.m., giving the Sun Devils an additional three hours after their flight from Arizona to Florida was delayed.Washington spokesman Kurt Svoboda said the Huskies returned to campus when their flight was grounded, but officials stayed in touch with their airline partners and the flight crew remained in place. The Huskies ultimately flew out late Friday for their game at Michigan State on Saturday, which will start at 5:30 p.m. EST, 75 minutes later than originally scheduled. It was unclear whether any referees, who typically fly to their assignments the day before games, would have trouble reaching their games. The Big Ten said in a statement that all of its officials had arrived for their scheduled assignments Saturday.Several teams were able to take off before the stoppage began, including all of those traveling in the Atlantic Coast Conference; Missouri, which was flying to top-ranked Georgia; Duke, which was visiting fifth-ranked Miami; and No. 10 Texas Tech, which posted on social media images of its arrival for a game at Oklahoma State.NFL teams playing Sunday typically travel the day before their games. They were expected to fly as planned on Saturday.In the NBA, the Cleveland Cavaliers played in Miami on Friday night but won't fly home until Saturday morning and plan to land about eight hours before a home game against the Dallas Mavericks. NBA teams hardly ever fly in on the day of a game, but there have been some circumstances — often weather-related — where it has happened.At least two other NBA teams had Friday night flights pushed to Saturday morning, but those teams aren’t playing Saturday night. Cleveland scrambled to get hotel rooms re-booked in Miami, after checking out of their hotel earlier Friday."It's part of it. You just adapt," Cleveland coach Kenny Atkinson said.There are 14 scheduled games in the NHL on Saturday. The Panthers were among the majority that made it to their destinations before the stoppage began. The Sharks, who were left waiting in San Jose to see whether they would be able to travel, arrived later Friday in Utah.JuJu Watkins and her third-ranked Southern California teammates were trying to get to South Carolina for their game Sunday against the top-ranked Gamecocks. The team had just boarded its flight at Los Angeles International Airport when the ground stop was issued. After a while, the decision was made to deboard passengers and the team returned to the Galen Center.In soccer, the Utah Royals already were in the Washington, D.C., area ahead of their National Women’s Soccer League semifinal against the Washington Spirit on Saturday. But the Kansas City Current were supposed to depart Friday for their semifinal against Gotham FC on Sunday in New York, and team officials were uncertain when their flight would be allowed to leave.The U.S. national team’s match against Haiti on Saturday in Miami was unaffected by the ground stop. Both teams and officials already were in town for the first leg of the two-match CONCACAF Nations League quarterfinal series.___AP Sports Writers Jim Vertuno, Aaron Beard, Tim Reynolds, Larry Lage and Beth Harris contributed to this report.

Ben Major headlines officiating crew for Grey Cup contest Sunday - TSN

Ben Major headlines officiating crew for Grey Cup contest Sunday TSNEdmonton and Montreal battle for the last Grey Cup of this era CBCGet Ready for Riley Green at the Bud Light Halftime Show! CFLKeys to victory: How Alouettes can beat Elks in Grey Cup Sportsnet.caThe party is on: Thousands celebrate Grey Cup weekend in Calgary CTV News

The GOP is now forced to own its cruelty — and it's gift-wrapping the White House

Pete Hegseth getting busted for his misogyny and racism was a perfect way to kick off the first post-election week. MS NOW dug into his entire filthy campaign — which involved only using paper files and phone calls so they wouldn't get busted — to short-circuit the military's merit-based promotion system and replace it with a new system his office invented to specifically remove women and men of color from the senior ranks of our military.He and President Donald Trump are apparently afraid that if they decide to turn the military against us using the Insurrection Act or a state of emergency, the women and non-white male officers may be an obstacle to their troops training their guns on the rest of us.In doing so, they broke multiple laws as well as the traditions of our military, and much of that is now documented in Kentucky Republican Congressman Thomas Massie's impeachment articles against "Pretty Pete" that were — unsuccessfully — submitted in the House.A former Army Judge Advocate (JAG Corps) officer came right out and called the entire process a crime: under federal law only the president can strike one- and two-star flag officers from the promotion lists.In addition, officers are legally entitled to both a written explanation and an appeal process when promotions are withheld, and "Pretty Pete" offered neither. He could be looking at jail, if we had anybody other than Todd Blanche in the Attorney General's office.But two years from now, if we can get a Democratic president, is still well within the statute of limitations.Robert Garcia, the incoming chair of House Oversight, summed up the new reality in two words on election night: "Lawyer up."The next two years are going to, ultimately, be only about two things.The first is exposing the corruption, lawlessness, and self-dealing of the Trump family crime syndicate and its GOP enablers and participants.The second is passing legislation so popular that every time a Republican filibusters or Trump vetoes, the process becomes the foundation for a Democratic campaign ad in 2028.Garcia has already said that his Oversight Committee will be going after Trump and his family's corruption, DHS and ICE abuses, and the Epstein/Trump coverup.Over at Judiciary, Jamie Raskin plans to dig into Trump's slush funds and skeezy fundraising. They include the so-called "Board of Peace," the "anti-weaponization" fund Trump created out of his lawsuit against the IRS and Treasury, his immunity from IRS inspection of him or his family, ballroom bribes donations, selling pardons, and no-bid contracts for Trump cronies and his sons' companies.Oversight Committee Democrats estimated in January that Trump, Uday, and Qusay had already pulled in roughly $9.72 billion in realized and unrealized profits off the presidency. Much of that came via World Liberty Financial, the family crypto platform into which an Emirati royal poured a reported $500 million which, presumably, ended up in the Trump family's pocket.Then there's the DOGE rampage, including Musk's pimply-faced boys making off with our personal Social Security and IRS data, the fired Inspectors general, and Pete's Signal chat. Collectively, this will easily keep them busy through the 2028 election.But beyond accountability for Trump and the lickspittles in his administration and Cabinet, these hearings should also focus on every Republican in the House and Senate who went along with all this — and the coverups of it up to this point — by way of Democrats in Congress demanding to know why they didn't stop it.Were they afraid of Trump or in on the grift? Democrats need to be merciless here; Republicans would have done no less if the tables were turned.Then there are the legislative opportunities, featuring both what Republicans have blocked for years (like raising the minimum wage, and student and medical debt relief) and what Democrats can do for working-class families and to get homeless people off our streets and into humane housing and help for addiction and mental illness.Every veto and "no" vote from Trump and Republicans will translate into another Democrat — and possibly a Democratic president — being elected in two years. This is the "we dare you" strategy, and Democrats in the House and Senate need to embrace it fully if their leadership will allow it.They could start with the $38.8 billion a year that the federal government hands to the fossil fuel industry, a figure that Trump has more than doubled since 2017 and his Big Beautiful Bill added $4 billion to. Ending those subsidies or moving that money into green projects could lower the deficit or lower electric bills.Then there's an amazing opportunity for a "camel's nose under the tent" with children's healthcare.As I detail in The Hidden History of American Healthcare, Robert Ball and LBJ wrote the Medicare legislation so it could easily become a national single-payer system simply by lowering the eligibility age by a decade every year or two (as the system grew to absorb its new enrollees) until everybody is covered. As Ball wrote back in the day:"We expected Medicare to be a first step toward universal national health insurance."One slick way to get started is to make every child under 18 eligible for traditional Medicare, with no exceptions or opportunities for the sleazy Medicare Advantage scam operators in the private for-profit insurance industry.LBJ's own people had drawn up a "Kiddicare" plan similar to this, although Republicans blocked it. But in 1968 Nixon expanded the system to include people with disabilities, showing that it's easy to add new groups of people.No prior authorizations, no narrow networks, no private middlemen, no profits for the oligarchs of the healthcare industry. Just high-quality healthcare for everybody.The group MedPAC testified to Congress that the Medicare Advantage scam plans will hustle $76 billion more out of our tax dollars than real, traditional Medicare would cost taxpayers, and offer better coverage. The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget puts the 10-year overpayment to the health insurance multimillionaires and billionaires at $1.2 trillion.Because children — generally healthy for their entire childhoods outside of accidents — are the cheapest people in the country to insure, this could be done just with the money saved by killing the Advantage scam.After all, UnitedHealth just reported third-quarter profits of $4.1 billion (just three months!), up 75 percent from the year earlier and raised its earnings forecast for 2026 for the third time. Every dollar of that money could, instead, have paid for a child's asthma inhaler, a pediatric cancer ward, or a rural clinic that's since closed.Wendell Potter pointed out that the profit surge came at the same time the company dropped so many unprofitably sick people from its Advantage plans that its medical spending dropped by $3 billion. Cigna raised its own outlook the same month and says they're preparing to walk away from the Obamacare exchanges altogether.So the vote in Congress would come down to a stark choice for Republicans: vote against covering kids to protect UnitedHealth's profits, or do what's right for our children and the nation.Other opportunities include;— Restoring the enhanced ACA subsidies and reversing the Medicaid cuts that will cost nearly 3 million children their coverage, along with taking apart the billionaire tax cuts from the Big Beautiful Billionaire's Bill.— Banning stock trading by members of Congress and the Executive branch, including staff and aides with access to insider information, and take back the tariff power that the Constitution gives exclusively to Congress.— Ending the cap on Social Security taxes to make the program solvent for the next 75 years and give everybody on the program a $2400 raise.— Raising the federal minimum wage to $!5, and index it to inflation going forward; nobody who works a 40-hour week, regardless of how "menial" their work may be, should be unable to afford housing, food, transportation, and medicine.— Passing the PRO Act to reverse Reagan's war on unions and restore democracy in the workplace while rebuilding the middle class.— Restoring the 2021 Child Tax Credit that Biden used to cut child poverty nearly in half; it's again exploding since Trump and the GOP killed it.— Bringing back the inspectors general to prosecute fraud and waste in Trump's executive branch agencies.— Putting into law an enforceable ethics code and term limits for the Supreme Court, and looking at impeaching Roberts, Thomas, and Alito for their corruption.— Passing the Freedom To Vote Act, the John Lewis Voting Rights Act, and the For The People Act that would have gutted Citizens United.Every Republican filibuster or veto becomes a gift to Democrats for 2028.Since Reagan flipped our economy upside down with his neoliberal trickle-down policies, think tank RAND Corporation's Carter Price calculated last year that if income had kept growing the way it did from the end of World War II through 1975, the bottom 90 percent of Americans would have earned $79 trillion more than they actually did between 1975 and 2023.That money, instead, is buying super yachts and doomsday bunkers for Epstein-class billionaires like Zuckerberg, Musk, and Bezos.Democrats are going to have to earn the White House and more congressional seats over the next two years, but the road there shouldn't be too difficult if leadership can prevent sabotage from within their own party, as we saw with Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema last time around.The key will be to be bold and unflinching in the face of the inevitable threats and fascist attempts to cow legislators, writers, media, activists, and anybody else who may resist Trump and Miller.And for that, our Democrats will need both our support and encouragement, particularly when it comes to turning down AIPAC, corporate, and billionaire money. And that's something we all can help with.

'Shock arrest': Trump DOJ brings felony charge against son of Obama's CIA chief

FBI agents arrested Kyle Brennan, the son of former CIA Director John Brennan, at his workplace in Herndon, Virginia, on Friday afternoon.The Daily Mail first reported what it called the "shock arrest" in an exclusive. Brennan, 40, was scheduled to make his first appearance in federal court in Virginia later Friday, the outlet reported.Brennan faces a felony charge of transporting child sexual abuse material. An FBI review of his phone turned up about 88 images that investigators say appeared to show underage girls engaged in sexually explicit conduct, according to a federal complaint reviewed by the outlet."The document says there was a graphic image of a female toddler and another picture of a 'fully nude pubescent minor girl on a locker bench,'" The Daily Mail reported.The report quickly circulated among allies of President Donald Trump, including former FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino and White House communications director Steven Cheung, who shared the story online."Yikes," MAGA host Benny Johnson wrote on X.The investigation began in 2024 after Adobe flagged suspected abuse material to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children. The case was referred to the FBI in October, a statement from the U.S. Attorney's Office said.John Brennan, who led the CIA under President Barack Obama and has long been a target of Trump's criticism, has come under scrutiny in a separate Justice Department probe. Brennan has denied wrongdoing.

'Utter incompetence': Trump sparks fury with unexpected post amid national emergency

President Donald Trump drew a furious backlash Friday after posting about reviving Hollywood while a nationwide aviation emergency left flights grounded across the country.The Federal Aviation Administration ordered a nationwide ground stop amid widespread air traffic control communications failures, leaving travelers stranded as officials scrambled to identify the cause.But Trump turned his attention to the entertainment industry, touting bipartisan legislation aimed at bringing film and television production back to the United States."I am working with Senator Tim Scott and, believe it or not, Senator Adam Schiff," Trump posted on his Truth Social platform, naming other lawmakers involved in the effort.CNN's Kaitlan Collins quickly pointed out the timing. "Trump posts, not about the ground stop, but about reviving the entertainment industry in bipartisan fashion," she wrote on X.Critics wasted no time pouncing."In the middle of a nationwide ground hold, Trump is posting on Truth Social about his work on 'the Motion Picture, Television, and Entertainment Revitalization Act,'" former federal prosecutor Joyce Vance posted."In the midst of a national crisis with the FAA shutting down airports and grounding flights, Trump is busy posting on Truth Social about the film industry. Such leadership," author Amy Siskind added on social media.Progressive media outlet MeidasTouch noted that hours had passed "and we've seen ZERO communication from Trump on the unfolding crisis at the FAA.Trump, however, found support from ally Kari Lake, who praised his efforts to revive U.S. film production."Thank you, President Trump, for working hard for American workers and American industry!" Lake wrote."The utter incompetence of the Trump regime is on full display tonight," progressive influencer Harry Sisson concluded. Trump posts, not about the ground stop, but about reviving the entertainment industry in bipartisan fashion. https://t.co/vzsIMD1RLS— Kaitlan Collins (@kaitlancollins) November 13, 2026

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang resigns after affair raises national security concerns

The Federal Aviation Administration’s decision to ground all flights nationwide for several hours Friday threw the sports world into chaos, leaving NBA, NHL and college teams scrambling to reach their destinations in time for games this weekend.Transportation officials cited "extraordinary circumstances" caused by communications issues at regional air traffic control centers for the stoppage. It left some teams searching for hotel rooms, others rescheduling flights, leagues adjusting start times, and some teams had took the extraordinary step of chartering buses rather than waiting for the ground stop to end."We’re going to allow for general aviation, those larger movements, to take place as a priority. Smaller movements will take lower priority," Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said after the ground stop was lifted Friday night in Washington.No. 19 Mississippi's football game at Oklahoma was moved from Saturday to Sunday at 1 p.m. EST because of travel issues. Oklahoma athletic director Roger Denny was upset with the decision, saying the Southeastern Conference threatened Oklahoma with a forfeit it did not agree to the move."I understand that difficult decisions sometimes must be made under extraordinary circumstances," Denny said in a statement on X. "Put simply, this decision isn't fair to our athletes, our institution or to Sooner nation.”Most college football teams playing Saturday travel the day before their game, and the stoppage left many schools — including No. 2 Utah, No. 8 Texas and No. 9 Tennessee — at a standstill as they departed for road games. The Utes play at No. 22 Arizona, the Longhorns visit No. 24 LSU and the Vols are traveling to Texas A&M in three of the bigger games of the weekend. "The Southeastern Conference is aware of the FAA’s nationwide ground stop and the potential impact on team travel," the league said. “The safety and well-being of student-athletes, coaches and team personnel remain our highest priority."Texas and Tennessee both returned to their campuses during the ground stoppage. Once it was lifted following more than four hours of uncertainty, the schools began making plans to fly out as soon as possible, allowing them to arrive before game day.Auburn opted to take a bus to Mississippi State with the SEC pushing back the Saturday start time from noon EST to 4:15 p.m. to give the Tigers a little buffer. Purdue likewise decided to board buses from West Lafayette, Indiana, for its game at Iowa.Other schools affected by the stoppage included Baylor, Washington, Kansas State, Minnesota and Arizona State.The Big 12 said the Kansas-West Virginia game scheduled for 5:30 p.m. EST would be moved up to 3:30 p.m. since the Jayhawks arrived in plenty of time. That allowed the league to shift the Arizona State-UCF game from 2:30 p.m. EST to 5:30 p.m., giving the Sun Devils an additional three hours after their flight from Arizona to Florida was delayed.Washington spokesman Kurt Svoboda said the Huskies returned to campus when their flight was grounded, but officials stayed in touch with their airline partners and the flight crew remained in place. The Huskies ultimately flew out late Friday for their game at Michigan State on Saturday, which will start at 5:30 p.m. EST, 75 minutes later than originally scheduled. It was unclear whether any referees, who typically fly to their assignments the day before games, would have trouble reaching their games. The Big Ten said in a statement that all of its officials had arrived for their scheduled assignments Saturday.Several teams were able to take off before the stoppage began, including all of those traveling in the Atlantic Coast Conference; Missouri, which was flying to top-ranked Georgia; Duke, which was visiting fifth-ranked Miami; and No. 10 Texas Tech, which posted on social media images of its arrival for a game at Oklahoma State.NFL teams playing Sunday typically travel the day before their games. They were expected to fly as planned on Saturday.In the NBA, the Cleveland Cavaliers played in Miami on Friday night but won't fly home until Saturday morning and plan to land about eight hours before a home game against the Dallas Mavericks. NBA teams hardly ever fly in on the day of a game, but there have been some circumstances — often weather-related — where it has happened.At least two other NBA teams had Friday night flights pushed to Saturday morning, but those teams aren’t playing Saturday night. Cleveland scrambled to get hotel rooms re-booked in Miami, after checking out of their hotel earlier Friday."It's part of it. You just adapt," Cleveland coach Kenny Atkinson said.There are 14 scheduled games in the NHL on Saturday. The Panthers were among the majority that made it to their destinations before the stoppage began. The Sharks, who were left waiting in San Jose to see whether they would be able to travel, arrived later Friday in Utah.JuJu Watkins and her third-ranked Southern California teammates were trying to get to South Carolina for their game Sunday against the top-ranked Gamecocks. The team had just boarded its flight at Los Angeles International Airport when the ground stop was issued. After a while, the decision was made to deboard passengers and the team returned to the Galen Center.In soccer, the Utah Royals already were in the Washington, D.C., area ahead of their National Women’s Soccer League semifinal against the Washington Spirit on Saturday. But the Kansas City Current were supposed to depart Friday for their semifinal against Gotham FC on Sunday in New York, and team officials were uncertain when their flight would be allowed to leave.The U.S. national team’s match against Haiti on Saturday in Miami was unaffected by the ground stop. Both teams and officials already were in town for the first leg of the two-match CONCACAF Nations League quarterfinal series.___AP Sports Writers Jim Vertuno, Aaron Beard, Tim Reynolds, Larry Lage and Beth Harris contributed to this report.

Frustration mounts as nationwide flight grounding drags on: 'I just want to get home'

Thousands of passengers were stranded, airports were at a standstill and tarmacs were full nationwide as the FAA ordered all United States airports to ground flights on Friday.A source told CNN that the FAA "doesn't know what is going on" and called the situation a crisis.Uncertainty was growing as the American public awaited information amid reports that a new AI system could have been behind the "communications issue" tied to the grounding. The FAA has not confirmed what prompted the technology issue.The Trump administration had not yet released a statement in response more than two hours after the ground stop, CNN reported. Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy was expected to share an update on Friday night. Lines were forming at service desks and baggage claim areas at airports across the United States.At Miami International Airport, CNN's Carolina Peguero spoke to a passenger named Jorge, who was trying to get back home to New Mexico. He found out about the grounding while he was in an Uber on the way to the airport."I just want to get home to my kid. It hits different when you want to get home to your kids," he said.

'Fighting for their lives': Cruise ship capsizes after tanker collision

A massive rescue operation was underway in New Orleans on Friday after an oil tanker slammed into a river cruise ship carrying more than 100 passengers, sending the vessel onto its side in the Mississippi River.Harrowing video captured the moment the American Heritage began tipping over and taking on water after it was struck by the Atlantic Asphalt tanker near the Port of New Orleans. Video from the scene showed people in the river.CBS News reported that at least 14 people had been rescued from the river as emergency crews rushed to the scene. Approximately 129 people were aboard the vessel, according to CNN."They're fighting for their lives," CNN anchor Brianna Keilar said during the network's breaking coverage. A majority of the people on board were elderly, according to reports.#BREAKING: Watch as river cruise ship capsizes in New Orleans with passengers still aboard. https://t.co/DoK48jxSB5— Miss Mary (@DivintyMary) November 13, 2026

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