Orsted's Revolution Wind offshore project began commercial operation in November 2026, producing up to 704 MW from 65 turbines, the company said. It is the third utility-scale US offshore wind farm in operation, after South Fork Wind and Vineyard Wind, and BloombergNEF has cut its 2035 US offshore wind forecast to 5.9 GW from 39 GW.
Victorian Premier Ben Carroll announced a $204 million "tough love" plan on November 8, 2026, to detain children who commit low and mid-level offenses in secure facilities including the former Malmsbury youth justice centre. Former Aboriginal children's commissioner Meena Singh, the Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service, the Justice Reform Initiative and Trades Hall secretary Luke Hilakari criticized the proposal, and about half a dozen Labor MPs aired concerns anonymously.
Liberal senator Andrew McLachlan said on November 14, 2026 that artists' copyright must not be sacrificed to corporate profit as Australia's Labor government weighs AI copyright changes. He also said new datacentres must not be prioritized over environmental concerns, adding to debate over a mooted constitutional challenge to weaker copyright law.
House Democrats are working on changes to the Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act, an energy permitting overhaul the Senate voted 73-25 last week to begin debating, Representative Kathy Castor said on November 14, 2026. Some Democrats want to wait until the party takes control of Congress in January rather than amend the current bipartisan measure.
Hungary's National Asset Recovery and Protection Office said on November 13, 2026 that it had seized cash worth $19.5 million in forests and other sites while investigating former minister Miklós Seszták over alleged bribery in state bus purchases. The agency said the two-day search turned up forints, euros and dollars, which it deposited with the state treasury.
Hungary's anti-corruption agency seized $19.5m in cash buried in forests and hidden in buildings during a graft inquiry into ex-minister Miklós Seszták.
Adds Sesztak's denial, lawyer Gabor Papp's non-response, Matolcsy's arrest, 'Operation Purgatory' name, and 70% poll support.
Adds that Seszták's bribery case involves the state transport company and that the cash was deposited in the State Treasury.
Adds search dates (Thursday and Friday), four counties where cash was found, and that Seszták is in pre-trial detention.
Adds search dates (Nov 12–13), locations (Budapest, Pest, Békés, Nógrád), and a claim that Orbán's brother Áron was arrested.
US airlines worked to recover on November 14, 2026, after a four-hour nationwide Federal Aviation Administration ground stop, with more than 3,000 flights within, into or out of the US already canceled that day, according to FlightAware. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy blamed an ageing air traffic control system and said operations were slowly returning to normal.
US air travel is slowly recovering after a four-hour nationwide FAA ground stop delayed or canceled thousands of flights, with over 3,000 canceled Saturday.
Reuters reports 3,700+ US flights canceled and 2,000 delayed Saturday; FAA ground stop lasted nearly five hours, forcing ~10,000 cancellations.
Duffy blames Friday's ground stop on faulty equipment or contractor error during copper-wire upgrade, as travelers brace for more disruptions.
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said on November 14, 2026, that a nationwide ground stop halting US flights stemmed from routine maintenance in which L3Harris upgraded copper wire to fiber optic cable at a remote site. Duffy said a router then overloaded a critical FAA communication system, and he questioned whether the fault was installer error or a faulty router.
The White House said on November 14 that President Trump will hold a trilateral meeting with China's Xi Jinping and Russia's Vladimir Putin on November 19, on the sidelines of the APEC summit in Shenzhen. White House assistant press secretary Olivia Wales said Trump will conclude his China visit with the meeting.
White House confirmed a US-China-Russia trilateral meeting on the sidelines of the Apec summit in Shenzhen next week.
Adds that a U.S. official told Reuters there are no plans for Trump to engage North Korea during his Asia trip.
White House says the first-ever Trump-Xi-Putin trilateral will focus on nuclear non-proliferation and Iran, not Ukraine.
White House spokeswoman Olivia Wales confirms the trilateral meeting, adds Trump-Xi bilateral Thursday and ASEAN stop in Philippines.
restates earlier reporting; article body inaccessible, so no new details
Analysis says no agenda or format agreed yet for the Trump-Xi-Putin meeting, with Xi wary of hosting and China opposed to arms control talks.
Adds that the summit is Trump's biggest diplomatic event since his party's election rout, framed as a legacy play.
NHS England is on course to miss its target of treating 80% of cancer patients within 62 days of an urgent referral by March 2027, with 70.7% treated on time in September, down from 71.9% in August. Analysis by the charity Radiotherapy UK found a cumulative shortfall of 9,490 patients against the target.
Democrat Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins won Alaska's governor race, according to projections by the Associated Press and NBC News reported on November 14, 2026. The former state lawmaker, 37, defeated three Republicans, including one backed by US President Donald Trump, and Democrats are projected to hold 30 governorships next year.
Democrat Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins has been projected to win the Alaska governor's race, the state's first Democratic governor since 1998.
Adds that AP called the race Friday, 10 days after polls closed, and that Democrats also took governor offices in Iowa, Georgia, Ohio and Texas.
Four nonprofit groups sued OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta and SpaceX in San Francisco Superior Court on November 12, 2026, seeking an injunction that would bar the companies from developing or deploying AI systems more capable than their most advanced models as of that date. The 63-page complaint invokes California's Unfair Competition Law and a public nuisance theory.
President Volodymyr Zelensky said on November 13 that Health Minister Viktor Liashko, former Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko and lawmaker David Arakhamia had no links to the alleged Khimprom criminal network, citing anti-corruption officials. The National Anti-Corruption Bureau's recordings show the network planned to bribe Klymenko and Liashko to keep its synthetic drugs off Ukraine's banned list.
The Federal Aviation Administration's aging air traffic control infrastructure has had several disruptive failures in recent months, as officials have sought to make upgrades, according to a report that did not date the failures. The report gives no specific incident, date, outage duration or flight impact, and names no affected airport or airline.
European Union foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas called on Israel on November 14, 2026, to protect civilians in Gaza as severe flooding worsened conditions, and urged it to allow unimpeded humanitarian access and reopen all border crossings. Kallas said an airstrike on the Nasser Hospital on Thursday was "deeply alarming." Israel denies breaching international law or blocking aid.
Nigeria's foreign ministry said on November 14 that 16 Nigerians with underlying health problems died this year while transiting through Addis Ababa, and urged citizens with cardiovascular or respiratory conditions to seek medical guidance before routing journeys through the Ethiopian capital. The ministry said it did not want to discourage travel via Bole International Airport.
Andy Burnham said on November 14, 2026 that the UK has lost more than it gained since leaving the EU, and that he will seek a food and farming deal with Brussels at a UK-EU summit on November 20. The prime minister said agreements he hopes to secure could raise GDP by 0.4%, about £17 billion.
Authorities found a bomb at BioUrja Renewables' ethanol and alcohol plant in Peoria, Illinois, on November 13, prompting a mandatory evacuation within one mile of the facility, Peoria mayor Rita Ali said. Peoria police chief Brad Dixon said early on November 14 that bomb technicians had rendered the object safe, and investigators were searching the site for other devices.
The Trump administration appeared to put on hold plans to deport more than 150 detained Afghans, with at least one detainee on the original flight manifest no longer holding a specified departure date as of late Tuesday, November 10, 2026. A federal judge's temporary order had earlier blocked a flight scheduled for election day.
New York City Council speaker Julie Menin said on November 14, 2026 that the council will hold an emergency meeting on November 20 after lithium-ion battery fires killed 12 people in the city in 2026. The Fire Department recorded more than 400 such fires and 83 injuries in 2026, against 292 fires and one death in 2025.
An undercover ITV documentary broadcast in a report published November 14, 2026 alleges that torture survivors may have been housed unlawfully at Crowborough, a former military camp in East Sussex used to accommodate asylum seekers. The program also alleges welfare checks at the site, run by contractor Clearsprings Ready Homes, were inadequate. The Home Office and Clearsprings were approached for comment.
