Tanker slams into docked New Orleans river cruiser carrying 129 passengers, sparking rescue
A tanker slammed into a docked river cruiser carrying about 129 passengers in New Orleans Friday, triggering rescue operations as emergency crews brought passengers ashore for triage and assistance.
The Atlantic Asphalt tanker struck American Cruise Lines’ American Heritage around 12:30 p.m. on the Mississippi River, the Port of New Orleans said in a statement shared with Fox News. Crew members were also aboard the cruise ship.
Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin said the Coast Guard was supporting state and local responders near mile marker 96 on the Mississippi River.
“We are throwing every asset we have to help rescue missing passengers,” Mullin wrote on X, adding that DHS was coordinating closely with Louisiana officials. “Our prayers are with all those impacted by this terrible tragedy.”
The Coast Guard said the Mississippi River was closed to all vessel traffic between mile markers 93 and 96 while responders assessed the situation and conducted response operations.
American Cruise Lines confirmed that guests and crew were evacuated and said it was coordinating closely with the U.S. Coast Guard and local authorities.
“Guests and crew were evacuated, and we are deeply concerned for everyone involved,” the company said in a statement. “We will share more information as it becomes available.”
The New Orleans Fire Department and NOLA Ready said in a Facebook update that multiple people had been rescued and search-and-rescue operations were ongoing at the time of the post.
“Public safety agencies are coordinating response efforts, with the immediate priority being the safety and rescue of those involved,” the update said. ….
Double-catch drama: Why Starship’s Flight 15 is so important to SpaceX
Having reached orbit for the first time with Starship last time out, SpaceX is looking to take a huge stride toward full reusability with Flight 15 — the first attempt to catch the megarocket’s Ship upper stage, as the company eyes hourly launches by 2030.
SpaceX is targeting today (Nov. 13) for Starship‘s 15th flight, which will lift off from the company’s Starbas site in South Texas.
If all goes well, the mission — which you can watch here at Space.com — will end on Saturday (Nov. 14) with the first attempt at what SpaceX itself calls the “Holy Grail of rocketry”: Catching both Starship’s Super Heavy booster and Ship upper stage chopstick-style back at the launch pad.
“If successful, this will mark the first full recovery of an orbital launch system and a breakthrough moment in making Starship a reliable, rapidly reusable rocket,” SpaceX wrote in its Flight 15 mission description.
The 75-minute Flight 15 launch window opens today at 5:45 p.m. EST (2245 GMT), and a number of Starship firsts are planned for early in the flight.
For example, while SpaceX has caught three Super Heavy boosters and reused two of them to date, the first attempt to catch a next-gen Super Heavy “V3” vehicle will come today, around 6.5 minutes after liftoff.
If the Ship upper stage gets the go-ahead for orbital insertion, it will deploy 26 Starlink V3 satellites — designed especially for use on Starship — into low Earth orbit (LEO), starting about 35 minutes after launch.
Then, 21 hours later, if “internally developed, and FAA-approved, conditions” for a return to Starbase and catch are met — including on-orbit assessment of Ship’s heat shield by three of the V3 satellites — SpaceX will attempt to recover the orbital upper stage. …
White Christians need not apply? Sara Gonzales warns discrimination is on full display in Colorado’s Capitol
If there was a government internship that only white Christians could apply for, the outrage would be immediate and unending.
This is why BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales is calling out a Colorado legislative caucus for advertising an internship with eligibility requirements tied to religion and ethnicity.
“I regret to inform you that the Muslims have learned nothing from the Muslims-only water park saga, because we have another flyer that is blatantly discriminatory,” Gonzales says.
“This time in Colorado, and shockingly, it’s not just from some random person, some weird group that no one’s ever heard of that curiously they wipe from the face of the internet anyway. That’s a story for another time,” she continues.
“This is not from some random person or group. It’s from a lawmaker,” she adds.
The flyer, promoted by the Joint MENASA & Muslim Caucus, reads, “Gain first-hand experience at the Colorado Capitol in Sen. Jodeh and Rep. Zokale’s offices.”
At the very top of the list under “Qualifications,” it instructs applicants to “identify as a Muslim and/or as Middle Eastern, North African, or South Asian.”
“I don’t, curiously, see white on the list,” Gonzales comments. “That’s weird.”
“So we’ll hire you, but only if you’re Muslim. White Christians need not apply,” she adds.
Gonzales points out that this caucus is the “first of its kind” and was formed to “boost Muslim and Middle Eastern voices.”
“Which is crazy, because I was reliably informed they just wanted to contribute to America,” she says, questioning why an American lawmaker would need to “boost Middle Eastern voices.”
“I guess they’re able to boost their voices by discriminating against, you know, non-Muslim voices and hiring only from their own people,” she continues. ….
DOJ directs federal agencies to transition to English-only operations in sweeping policy guidance
The Trump administration has escalated its push to establish English as the sole operational language of the federal government, instructing executive departments and agencies to phase out non-English materials and conduct public business almost exclusively in English.
The directive, formally titled “Guidance on Implementing English as the Official Language,” was published publicly in the Federal Register on November 12, 2026, by the Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Policy.
Originally circulated internally to agency heads on September 1st and subsequently revised on October 22nd to align with the administration’s recent artificial intelligence executive order, the memorandum explicitly instructs federal entities that they “should strive to operate solely in English” and prioritize English over all other languages across their daily functions.
Under the sweeping guidelines, the Justice Department recommends that a comprehensive array of federal communications and administrative resources be produced and maintained strictly in English.
This encompasses official correspondence, federal regulations, public notices and announcements, application forms, government websites, educational and outreach materials, internal agency communications, and employee training resources.
In a notable addition stemming from the October revision, the guidance also mandates that federal artificial intelligence and “superintelligence” tools operate in English, reflecting President Donald Trump’s October 2, 2026, Executive Order 14434.
Furthermore, the memorandum instructs agencies to conduct thorough reviews of their existing multilingual programs and eliminate any translation services that are neither mandated by federal statute nor deemed strictly necessary to fulfill an agency’s core mission.
The directive serves as the latest enforcement mechanism for Executive Order 14224, signed by President Trump in March 2025, which declared English the official language of the United States and revoked a Clinton-era mandate requiring federal agencies to provide language assistance to individuals with limited English proficiency. ….
The Witch Hunt Against Trump Is Starting AGAIN | Victor Davis Hanson, Daily Brief
Victor Davis Hanson argues that America may already be experiencing a hidden economic boom under President Donald Trump — and that Democrats are too focused on impeachment and political investigations to recognize what’s happening.
In today’s VDH Daily Brief, Victor examines falling gas prices, GDP growth, employment numbers, and the economic trends he believes are being overlooked.
Why does he think the economy is performing better than the headlines suggest? And what happens if economic conditions continue improving before Democrats take control of Congress?
Victor also breaks down the Trump administration’s options in Iran, the impeachment efforts targeting Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, and why he believes Democrats are preparing another wave of investigations against Trump and his administration.
Finally, Victor offers his perspective on immigration reform, including border security, deportations, and a possible compromise for longtime undocumented residents.
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Victory requires Iran regime’s fall; Iran’s neighbors resist US border demands TV7 Israel 13 Nov.
- U.S. Central Command tells the IDF to prepare for high-intensity conflict with the Ayatollah regime in Iran – that may resume in the near future.
- President Donald Trump confirms that unless the Ayatollah Regime collapses – he cannot declare victory.
- Turkey, Pakistan, and Iraq, among other Iranian neighbours, reportedly push back on American demands to close their border crossings with the Islamic Republic.
ICE nabs two illegal immigrants accused of HEINOUS crimes
Illegal immigrant trucker charged in crash that killed mom, 2 young sons heading to airport
An illegal immigrant truck driver was charged after allegedly causing a crash in Missouri that left a mother and her two young sons dead.
Eldar Skander, 39, was charged with three counts of first-degree involuntary manslaughter in connection with a crash in Kansas City, Missouri, on Monday, according to a news release from the Jackson County Prosecutor’s Office.
A GoFundMe page identified the victims as 35-year-old Olga Sorbalo and her two children, 4-year-old Samir and 8-year-old Luis.
Sorbalo’s husband, Liviu Sorbalo, as well as their youngest child, survived the crash, according to the fundraiser.
Prosecutors said a total of six other people were transported to a nearby hospital with serious injuries.
Daniel Cosovan, Olga’s brother, told KGW8 the family was headed to the airport to catch a flight back home to Washington.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) said in a post on X that Skander is a Ukrainian illegal immigrant who was released into the country under the Biden administration.
“Reckless open-border policies have resulted in countless preventable tragedies. Three more innocent American lives were lost. Two children who will never get to grow up, and a mother who will never get to watch them grow,” ICE said. “These deaths were tragic and preventable. No other family should have to endure this loss. This is our WHY.”
As traffic slowed to a stop, prosecutors said the Volvo semi-truck driven by Skander continued at a “high rate of speed” before striking a black Honda Odyssey, triggering a chain-reaction crash. Prosecutors said investigators found no evidence that Skander applied the truck’s emergency brakes before the collision.
A tablet with YouTube open was found on the floorboard of the semi-truck, prosecutors said.
Jail records indicate Skander has a $150,000 bond and also has an ICE detainer. The address on Skander’s criminal complaint indicates he resides in Chicago, Illinois.
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said in an X post that Skander’s non-domiciled commercial driver’s license was issued to him by Illinois in March 2025.
Duffy said the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has launched an investigation into the company that hired Skander as a truck driver, as well as how Illinois issued him a commercial driver’s license. …
School investigating after viral video shows 10th-grade girl punched, put in chokehold on Ohio school bus
An Ohio school board is investigating an attack on a 10th-grade girl by a male student on a school bus after video of the assault went viral on social media.
The incident occurred Friday, Nov. 6, on a school bus taking students to the Mahoning Valley Community School, a public high school in Youngstown that serves students from grades 7 to 12.
The video, apparently filmed by another student on the bus, showed a boy repeatedly punching and kicking the girl.
Other students could be heard laughing until the boy put her in a chokehold, prompting someone to say, “Chill.”
The girl’s stepfather told WKBN-TV that he found out how everything happened on Wednesday, five days after the brutal beating she suffered. He said she was taken to the hospital to check the severity of her injuries.
The district released a statement to FOX 8, a Cleveland TV affiliate, apologizing for “the delay in promptly notifying parents of the incident.” ….
Maintenance worker hears cries for help, finds woman chained to bed: Reports
A maintenance worker reportedly making a routine visit to a North Dakota apartment allegedly discovered a woman who appeared to have been held captive inside a bedroom, leading to the arrest of two people, according to the Fargo Police Department.
Police said officers responded to an apartment building in the 4900 block of 44th Avenue South on Nov. 3 following a report of suspicious activity.
A maintenance worker allegedly entered an apartment for routine service and found a woman who appeared to be held against her will inside.
Authorities arrested 40-year-old Calzada-Becerril of Fargo and 41-year-old Erendira Amoles of Moorhead in connection with the case, according to the Fargo Police Department.
The maintenance worker told police that when he went inside the apartment, he found a woman who did not speak English chained to the bed with a security camera pointing at her, and the bedroom windows covered with aluminum foil, according to court documents as reported by Valley News Live.
NewsNation affiliate WJW reported that the woman told investigators her ex-husband, Calzada-Becerril, brought her to Fargo from Mexico in 2024 and had kept her confined inside the apartment since then.
Officials said the investigation remains in its early stages as detectives continue gathering information about what took place.
Collapsed Brooklyn building had 98 open building code violations: Records
New York City housing officials had issued nearly 100 open building code violations for the Brooklyn three-story building that collapsed this week, killing eight people and injuring at least 18 others.
Housing Department records indicate that the 98 violations date back to 1972 and continued through May.
City records show 11 violations in 2026 alone, including six on the building’s third floor and another violation involving infractions on each of the building’s three floors.
City building inspectors found violations this year ranging from unsafe, exposed electrical wiring to roof leaks to inoperable smoke and carbon monoxide detectors and bedbugs. Residents had also filed complaints about not having water or heat.
The cause of the deadly building collapse remains under investigation. New York Attorney General Letitia James announced Friday that her office is launching an investigation into what caused the building to collapse.
However, Farah Louis, a member of the New York City Council, demanded answers about what caused the tragedy.
“If negligence or ignored safety complaints contributed to this fatal collapse — where children, pregnant women, and elderly New Yorkers were put in harm’s way — those responsible must be held fully accountable under the law.”
“A building does not simply collapse in the middle of a residential neighborhood without warning signs or systemic failures,” Louis, who represents the Flatbush neighborhood in Brooklyn, said at a news conference Thursday.
The building’s landlord, Olufemi Falade, was jailed for 12 days in 2006 after failing to repair hundreds of violations in the 12 buildings he owns across New York City, The New York Post reported.
Housing Preservation and Development Commissioner Shaun Donovan told the newspaper at the time that the city found more than 1,800 violations of city building codes in the buildings that he owned. …
Stephen Miller Requires White House Staff To Get Approval Before Meeting Lobbyists
Stephen Miller, the White House Chief of Staff, is reportedly cutting off a key pathway that K Street has relied on for years in order to influence the White House.
According to a memo first reported by Politico, the White House staffer would need to clear through the Office of the White House Counsel to meet with registered lobbyists to discuss policy affecting the administration.
The rule covers meetings on the White House complex that deal with government policy.
The Office of Public Liaison remains the main contact for outside groups. Staff are not free to take a downtown meeting and sort out the politics later.
The memorandum explains that, historically,
“No President in history has fought more relentlessly, selflessly or courageously for the American People than President Trump. Following his example, White House staff are expected to dedicate their time unwaveringly to the working people of the nation.”
The memorandum explains that, historically, “No President in history has fought more relentlessly, selflessly or courageously for the American People than President Trump. Following his example, White House staff are expected to dedicate their time unwaveringly to the working people of the nation.”
That’s in stark contrast to his predecessor, Susie Wiles, a former K Street lobbyist who helped establish relationships downtown with outside interests after becoming Chief of Staff to Trump.
A spokesman for Wiles said that the former Chief “understood the importance of having strong relationships” and that the President is “a very relational person.”
The reality is that many on K Street have already given up trying to lobby the White House Chief of Staff.
A dozen or so Republican lobbyists spoke with Politico about their efforts to lobby Miller, and of those, Hunter Morgen, a senior lobbyist at Ballard Partners who worked with Miller before he joined the White House, said he does not operate based on relationships.
“He doesn’t operate based on relationships. He operates based on policy outcomes that will advance the president’s agenda,” the lobbyist said. Another lobbyist said Miller is “impossible to lobby.” …
Democrats are running a con against the American people
If you think the title of this blog is an exaggeration, trust me, it’s not. Months before the midterm elections, an organization infiltrated the social media network with the lie that affordability was the driving issue in this country. And through their network, they convinced voters it was true.
It was a lie, and it cost Republicans the election.
How did this happen?
The Democrat party has formed the American Accountability Network, which can be weaponized to promote a key issue across social media. Van Jones of CNN broke the news after the election and jeered that Republicans never figured out what was happening.
The American Accountability Network selects agents to communicate its message, and those agents recruit thousands of people/subagents to post the message on social media. In the case of affordability, people were told over and over again that the problem was the result of Trump’s and Republicans’ activities, that what the people were feeling was true, and the Democrats were the only ones to solve the problem.
Here is how the AAN describes its strategy:
The American Accountability Network is a powerful consortium of advocates, content creators, organizers, and influencers who together have formed an ecosystem that has the ability to shape political narratives, reach the public at scale, and mobilize people to take action.
Our core network online consists of thousands of advocates, including many who have hundreds of thousands and millions of followers. Across all the major platforms our network reaches an average of 200+ million people each week.
They also list on their website the people who propagate “right wing misinformation,” to suggest that their organization is working to overcome those efforts.
Van Jones had permission to reveal this information. I suspect he spoke out because he realized that there is likely no way to stop the Democrats from using this propaganda approach. This is how he further explained the process on CNN: ….
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Migrants react to Democrats taking control of key border states as President Trump warns Mexico to take action against a migrant caravan and threatens tariff pressure.
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