Headlines for November 13, 2026

HeadingsNovember 13, 2026

Sen. Chris Van Hollen Will Challenge Chuck Schumer for Senate Majority Leader

Nov 13, 2026

More than 50 young activists with the Sunrise Movement were apprehended Thursday after numerous protesters staged a sit-in inside Senator Chuck Schumer’s Washington, D.C., workplace. Activists are promoting brand-new Democratic management in the Senate after almost a years under Schumer. They likewise desire Democrats to eliminate the Senate filibuster. Kids likewise took part in the action Thursday as a number of the protesters held indications that check out “The filibuster eliminates,” “Stop the environment crisis,” and “Schumer: Step up or step aside.”

Daybreak Movement activist 1: “Chuck Schumer and facility Democrats are more frightened of the voices of youths than of the environment crisis.”

Grace: “The American public is tired of the usual politics, and we’re prepared for genuine modification.”

Dawn Movement activist 2: “Chuck Schumer would rather listen to billionaires than youths.”

Dawn Movement activist 3: “Chuck Schumer does not listen to us. He listens to business cash, particularly originating from AIPACOver $400,000 have actually been invested into him.”

Jamie: “I picked to do this due to the fact that when I remained in high school, I saw the locations I like burn to the ground due to the fact that of the environment crisis. As I’ve gotten older, I’ve seen American tax dollars go to burning and battle Gaza.”

Grace: “I believe everyone, consisting of young individuals the most, can see the composing on the wall at this point? And we’re all stating the ship requires to be entering this instructions.”

Nvidia CEO and co-founder Jensen Huang has actually resigned. The chip maker states its long time chief monetary officer, Colette Kress, will function as interim CEO while Nvidia’s board of directors look for a long-term replacement. Huang stepped down as Reuters reported he ‘d had an intimate relationship with a 2nd staff member, whom Reuters did not name. That follows reports that Huang had an affair with a Chinese businesswoman who U.S. intelligence authorities declare was spying for Beijing as part of a Chinese intelligence operation looking for to get sophisticated computer system chips, which are prohibited by U.S. export controls. Huang apparently assisted the supposed spy acquire a minimum of $7.5 billion worth of Nvidia chips for China by means of a Singapore-based cloud calculating business called Megaspeed International. Bloomberg reports Jensen Huang has actually concurred to affirm before House legislators in a closed-door hearing later on this month. Nvidia has actually lost almost $2 trillion in market capitalization considering that its all-time high in early October. We’ll have more on this story after headings.

In more innovation news, Microsoft is rushing to repair a significant blackout that’s interfered with interaction for countless individuals throughout a minimum of 74 nations because Thursday early morning. The failure has actually cut off access to Microsoft’s Outlook, Teams and the AI assistant Copilot.

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps states it ruined a U.S. early-warning radar system in Bahrain in retaliation for a U.S. strike on a telecom tower in southern Iran. Authorities likewise declared 4 attacks on oil tankers in the Strait of Hormuz on Thursday, following strikes on a set of supertankers one day previously.

Iran’s attacks came as President Trump on Thursday sidelined Vice President JD Vance as the leading U.S. arbitrator with Iran. Trump stated in a social networks post he had actually directed Vance to rather concentrate on battling what Trump called “corruption and criminal offense” in Democratic-controlled cities and states. Trump composed, “We do not require a handle Iran. Those days have actually long given that passed. We’ve got their cash, Hundreds of Billions of Dollars, and we’ve got their Strait!”

Yemen’s Ansar Allah motion, called the Houthis, has actually declared fresh attacks on oil facilities and an air base in Saudi Arabia. A Houthi representative stated targets consisted of the Yanbu oil center on the Red Sea, an Aramco center in Riyadh and a pumping station on the East-West Pipeline, which is Saudi Arabia’s primary path for shipping oil past Iran’s blockade on the Strait of Hormuz. The Arab League alerted Thursday that a Houthi siege of the southwestern Yemeni city of Taiz is leading to a humanitarian catastrophe, with “intense lacks of fuel, oxygen, medications and medical materials.”

Russia and Ukraine traded drone and rocket attacks overnight, regardless of a diplomatic push by the Trump administration that’s supposedly looking for an end to the dispute. The violence followed President Trump’s envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner consulted with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow, followed by a conference with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Dublin. Both Russia and Ukraine consented to a detainee swap that Zelensky called the biggest considering that Russia’s major intrusion of Ukraine. Zelensky has actually implicated Elon Musk’s SpaceX of as soon as again limiting service to Starshield, the military-grade variation of the Starlink web satellite constellation, which Ukraine utilizes for drone attacks.

In Gaza, a Palestinian baby has actually passed away from hypothermia after Israeli attacks left his household displaced and living in a camping tent in Khan Younis. Kinan Ahmed Raqiq was simply 9 months old. His death came as Israel continued to enforce serious constraints on imports of fuel and winter season materials into Gaza. U.N. humanitarian chief Tom Fletcher states 150,000 camping tents stay stuck in storage facilities at Gaza’s borders, even as some 350,000 displaced Palestinians deal with heavy rain, flooding and plunging temperature levels. On Thursday, a group of 49 countries released a joint require Israel to relieve limitations on shelter, fuel, water, sanitation and medical materials to Gaza. The United States did not sign the declaration. This is Britain’s ambassador to the U.N., Sarah MacIntosh, speaking from U.N. head office.

Sarah MacIntosh: “As winter season sets in, far a lot of individuals in Gaza are still without appropriate shelter and danger direct exposure to hypothermia, breathing infections, waterborne illness and other avoidable diseases. Restraints on the entry of important shelter products and other life-saving products continue to avoid humanitarian companies from reacting at the scale needed.”

In more news from Gaza, a Palestinian was eliminated by Israeli shooting east of Gaza City previously today. That followed an Israeli strike on an automobile near eviction of Al-Shifa Hospital which eliminated someone and left a number of others seriously injured. That attack came as Palestinians in Khan Younis held funeral services for a cosmetic surgeon, a teenage young boy and 4 other Palestinians eliminated when an Israeli airstrike targeted southern Gaza’s Nasser Hospital complex. We’ll have more on that attack, and the current from Gaza, later on in the broadcast.

In California, neighborhood members are requiring the release of precious nurse and University of San Francisco teacher Ann Lawani, who was apprehended by ICE almost 2 months earlier. Lawani is initially from Nigeria and has actually resided in the U.S. considering that 2007. She was supposedly in the house in Lodi, still using her pajamas, when ICE representatives appeared at her door in early September, taking her to a regional holding center. She vanished from ICE’s database for 3 days, with her older sibling informing The New York Times, “It was the worst time of my life, understanding she had actually been siphoned into a void and there was absolutely nothing I might do about it.” Lawani is now being apprehended countless miles away at an ICE prison in Basile, Louisiana.

Numerous protesters, consisting of instructors and chosen authorities, rallied outside San Diego’s federal structure Thursday, requiring an 8-year-old Haitian young boy to be reunited with his family members. He was taken into federal migration custody after a check-in recently. The kid is a 3rd grader at a regional primary school. His household and supporters state they do not understand his location.

Almost 2 lots immigrants passed away in the custody of ICE throughout the very first year of President Trump’s 2nd term due to medical overlook. That’s according to findings by the San Francisco Chronicle, which acquired internal ICE examinations into the 29 deaths that took place in 2025. ICE’s own files confess migration prisons stopped working to supply emergency situation healthcare. Sometimes, ICE prison personnel even buffooned or neglected individuals who asked for assistance and who later on passed away.

A minimum of 62 immigrants have actually passed away in ICE custody considering that Trump’s go back to workplace. In action to the abuse, immigrants imprisoned throughout the country have actually staged cravings strikes and other tranquil actions. Today, the publication L.A. Taco reported a minimum of 24 individuals apprehended at the Adelanto ICE prison in California’s Mojave Desert began another cravings strike– the 2nd up until now this year. Another cravings strike at the Northwest ICE prison in Tacoma, Washington, is likewise continuous. Appetite strikers at both centers have actually supposedly dealt with dangers, consisting of being moved to other ICE prisons throughout the nation. Both Adelanto and Northwest are run by the for-profit jail business GEO Group.

Here in New York, occupant supporters are requiring justice after what they referred to as the avoidable collapse of an apartment in Brooklyn that eliminated a minimum of 8 individuals, consisting of 2 kids, and hurt a minimum of 23 others Wednesday. Amongst the victims were 2 building and construction employees from Ecuador and Guatemala; a food shipment employee and Amazon employee, who were family members from Guinea in West Africa; and 2 young cousins from Colombia.

The publication amNewYork reports the collapse might have been triggered by corner-cutting by subcontractors and designers dealing with a nearby building website where teams were digging a pit for a brand-new huge, multi-story advancement. In the wake of the collapse, New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani stated 5 specialists and designers linked to the catastrophe are related to about 100 other websites throughout New York, which the Department of Buildings would right away start checking those websites.

The executive director of NYS Occupant Bloc, Sumathy Kumar, stated in a declaration that the catastrophe “worries the seriousness of taking structures out of the hands of bad property owners who are wanting to make fast earnings at the expenditure of individuals’s security” and “highlights the requirement for dignified, high quality real estate developed with union labor, which is why we are defending social real estate throughout the city and state.”