The mayor of New Orleans said on Friday evening that all of the more than 100 passengers aboard a cruise ship docked at the Port of New Orleans on the Mississippi River had been accounted for after a large asphalt tanker crashed into it, causing it to sink. Mayor Helena Moreno said at a news conference that the collision between the American Heritage cruise ship — a riverboat-style ship — and a tanker called the Atlantic Asphalt occurred around 12:30 p.m. after the tanker “lost control.” She said that passengers immediately began disembarking, but as they did so, the cruise ship capsized. Reports suggest that at least a dozen people fell into the water. New Orleans police, Harbor Police, firefighters and other boats on the river helped rescue them, Moreno said, adding that 32 passengers were hospitalized with noncritical injuries. “At this moment … we have zero people unaccounted for, which truly is a miracle on the Mississippi,” she said. “And that is a credit to the first responders.” Bystander footage from the scene showed the white, riverboat-style cruise ship slowly tipping onto its side following the collision as passengers waited on the deck. American Cruise Lines, which operates the American Heritage, shared a message on social media saying that it was “deeply concerned” for everyone involved.“We are in close coordination with the U.S. Coast Guard and local authorities. Guests and crew were evacuated, and we are deeply concerned for everyone involved. We will share more information as it becomes available.” This article originally appeared on Yahoo News at https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/live/all-passengers-accounted-for-after-tanker-collides-with-cruise-ship-in-new-orleans-mayor-says-223554822.html

The Federal Aviation Administration issued a nationwide ground stop for all flights in the United States until further notice, “due to extraordinary circumstances and for reasons of safety.”This means that planes currently in the air may land, but those on the ground may not take off.U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin told reporters Friday evening that there is currently no reason to suspect a national security threat is behind the communications outage affecting flights.”There’s no reason for the public to be afraid or scared for their loved ones,” Mullin said.”This is not another 9/11,” he added. “This is a telecommunications outage; this is much different.” Mullin said it would “take some time” to resolve the issue and that flights already in the air are being handled on a “case-by-case” basis.U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy wrote in a post on X, “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.”As of 6 p.m. ET, there were over 10,000 flights delayed and over 1,700 canceled within, into or out of the U.S., according to FlightAware.com, a live flight tracker website. There were more than 30,000 departures and arrivals scheduled for the remainder of the day, according to flight tracking app Flighty, the New York Times reported.Airlines for America, an industry trade organization representing major U.S. airlines, wrote in a post on X, “Safety is always our top priority.” It added that it’s in communication with the Department of Transportation and the FAA. The association encouraged travelers to be in touch with their airline carrier for “real-time updates.”Sen. Tammy Duckworth, a Democrat from Illinois and a ranking member of an aviation subcommittee, called for an investigation into the nationwide ground stop. “The safety of our skies is built on redundancies,” she wrote on X in response to Duffy’s update. “Whatever led to the nationwide ground stop will warrant a thorough and complete investigation. As Aviation Subcommittee Ranking Member, I’ll be demanding answers from the FAA.”The cause of Friday’s widespread communication issue is still unclear.”Do we know what has caused it yet?” Mullin said. “No, we’re going to go through it. But I’m not going to make assumptions.”Microsoft said that its own global outage — from which it is still recovering — did not appear to be a factor. The National Weather Service told the New York Times that a screenshot going viral online claiming that its weather radar is down is “outdated,” adding that it “has not experienced a disruption to its radar systems today.” Earlier this week, the FAA announced the nationwide rollout of a new $875 million artificial intelligence tool to help air-traffic controllers avoid delays. Called SMART — short for Strategic Management of Airspace, Routes and Trajectories — it was made by an AI company called ASI and had previously been in use at Washington, D.C., airports since late September. On social media, ASI said “the current ground stop is not based on or a result of the SMART system, any product of ASI or our integration with FAA and ATC.”A Yahoo reporter who is currently on the tarmac on a United Airlines flight waiting to depart from Los Angeles International Airport passed along updates from the cabin. She said her pilot said that “what happened was a communications outage that started in Kansas City Center, which is responsible for the airspace above the middle of America, and it spread nationwide.”She also said she received an update from United Airlines, which said, “Air traffic control is limiting the number of planes allowed to land and depart each hour in Los Angeles, affecting several flights. We’re monitoring the situation closely to get you to your destination as soon as possible.”Around 6 p.m. ET, she said her flight “going over the Pacific” was finally “pushing back” from the gate. The New York Times has reported that “some international flights from the United States have been allowed to depart amid the ground stop.”Nationwide ground stops are pretty rare. The last time such an event occurred was in January 2023, when a pilot notification system went down. Before then, a nationwide ground stop was issued following the September 11, 2001, attacks.This article originally appeared on Yahoo News at https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/article/faa-issues-nationwide-ground-stop-on-all-departing-flights-citing-communication-issue-213136811.html

Cole Tomas Allen, the man accused of attempting to assassinate President Donald Trump at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner in April, is facing a new charge of terrorism, according to the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia.Allen was already charged with attempting to kill Trump and three other charges, but the new charge unsealed in a superseding indictment on Thursday adds a terrorism charge with not much detail.Dana Verkouteren – PHOTO: Cole Allen, the suspect in the shooting incident in Washington at the annual White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner appears before Magistrate Judge Matthew Sharbaugh in US District Court in Washington, April 27, 2027.He has pleaded not guilty to the previous charges, including attempted assassination of the president, assault on a federal law enforcement officer with a deadly weapon, transportation of a firearm and ammunition over state lines with the intent to commit a felony and discharge of a firearm during a crime of violence. He has not yet entered a plea under the new charge.The armed 31-year-old was tackled by law enforcement on the night of April 25 after rushing through a security checkpoint at the hotel, where thousands of journalists as well as Trump and members of his Cabinet were gathered for the annual event, according to prosecutors.Footage shows White House correspondents’ dinner suspect ‘casing’ hotel, US attorney saysA Secret Service officer was shot and injured before Allen was subdued by agents, officials said.In May, U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeannie Pirro said there is “no doubt” that Allen shot a uniformed Secret Service officer. Andrew Harnik/Gettyimages – PHOTO: Armed Secret Service agents stands on stage during a shooting incident at the annual White House Correspondents Association Dinner at the Washington Hilton on April 25, 2026 in Washington, DC.”The grand jury agreed that there was probable cause to believe that it was Cole Allen’s weapon that hit the Secret Service agent,” she told ABC News’ chief justice correspondent Pierre Thomas.Allen allegedly wrote that administration officials were his targets, according to a criminal complaint.If convicted, he faces a maximum penalty of life in prison.This article originally appeared on ABC News at https://abcnews.com/Politics/man-accused-white-house-correspondents-association-dinner-shooting/story?id=138118021

In what had been considered Colorado’s most Republican-leaning congressional district, incumbent Rep. Lauren Boebert has been defeated by Democrat Eileen Laubacher.The Associated Press called the race on Friday afternoon.Laubacher received 48.8% of the vote (187,488 votes) to Boebert’s 47.9% (184,047 votes), with 99% of the vote counted. Douglas Mangeris, a libertarian, received 3.3%, or 12,720 votes, per AP. Boebert, an outspoken gun rights activist, has served in Congress since 2021 and is considered one of President Trump’s staunchest allies on Capitol Hill.Laubacher is a retired U.S. Navy rear admiral who was deployed in Afghanistan. She also served on the National Security Council under President Joe Biden.Laubacher’s victory adds Colorado’s 4th District to the more than 40 Republican-held districts that have flipped to Democrats this midterm cycle, including two others in Colorado. In an interview with NewsNation on Thursday, Boebert blamed her impending loss on “so many different variables” that plagued Republicans across the country, including gas prices, the war in Iran and Congress’s failure to address corruption in the U.S. political system.She also argued that she and other members of the right wing House Freedom Caucus “weren’t heard” when they called for Congress to take action on a variety of issues that voters care about, including government surveillance and “fair elections.”The result is indicative of the remarkable swing toward Democrats that took place in historically safe Republican districts across the country. Boebert, who relocated from Colorado’s more-purple 3rd District in 2023, won by more than 11 percentage points the last time she was on the ballot.Who is Eileen Laubacher?Laubacher served 34 years in the U.S. Navy, working in a variety of intelligence and command positions, before retiring in 2024. Her father also spent his career in the Navy, reaching the rank of vice admiral. Her grandfather served as a Navy combat diver during World War II. Laubacher spent significant periods of her Navy career abroad, including a deployment to Afghanistan in 2009 and service in a senior role at the U.S. Embassy in India. Though she said she had frequently told people in her life that she would “never run for office,” Laubacher opted to enter the race for Boebert’s seat because she believed residents of Colorado’s 4th District deserved “serious and honest representation” in Congress. Laubacher had reportedly been a Republican throughout much of her life before registering as a Democrat in late 2025. Her decision to switch parties, she said, was driven by her view that the Republican Party had become “nearly unrecognizable” to her.Laubacher’s recent party swap became the subject of a lawsuit during the Democratic primary, with one of the other Democrats in the race attempting to prevent her from qualifying for the ballot. That effort failed, and Laubacher later secured the Democratic nomination.In terms of policy, Laubacher is firmly within the moderate wing of the Democratic Party. She supports strong immigration enforcement, tax cuts for the middle class and reducing the national debt. She placed a heavy emphasis on affordability throughout her campaign, including calling on President Trump to repeal tariffs that raise consumer prices and end the war with Iran. Boebert’s tenureFirst elected to represent Colorado’s 3rd District in 2020, Boebert quickly became one of the more vocal and recognizable members of the House Republican caucus. She has been a persistent critic of the “deep state” and was a staunch supporter of Trump’s efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. During her first year in the House, she introduced separate resolutions to impeach then-President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris over their handling of the U.S. military withdrawal from Afghanistan. In 2023, she was one of the key voices behind a leadership battle among House Republicans that was only settled when Kevin McCarthy was elected Speaker after 15 roll call votes. Later that year, she mounted a second unsuccessful effort to impeach Biden. Boebert’s personal life drew scrutiny in September 2023 after she and a male companion were escorted out of a stage production of Beetlejuice for allegedly “vaping, singing, [and] causing a disturbance.” Though she initially denied acting inappropriately, she later apologized for her behavior, saying that her actions “fell short of my values.”Though Boebert won her first House race by a comfortable margin, she narrowly avoided defeat in her bid for reelection in 2022, defeating her Democratic challenger by just 546 votes. Prior to the 2024 election, Boebert switched her reelection bid to Colorado’s 4th District, a region of the state considered “far more favorable to Republicans.”The move proved effective in helping Boebert secure a comfortable victory in 2024. But the redder district was not enough to insulate her from the widespread Democratic gains across the country this year. This article originally appeared on Yahoo News at https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/article/lauren-boebert-loses-house-seat-to-democratic-challenger-in-colorado-195908438.html

Emergency personnel work at the scene of a partial building collapse where, according to local reports, people are trapped in the Brooklyn borough of New York, on Wednesday, November 11. – Angelina Katsanis/Reuters Leonor Yupa dropped to her knees Thursday when a Spanish-language media reporter said her 22-year-old son was among eight people whose lives were claimed by the Brooklyn building collapse the day before. “I want my son! I want my son!” the Ecuadorian mother cried in Spanish as family members tried to hold Yupa up and others who gathered at Bethesda Church of God in Christ assured her the reports were unconfirmed. The agonizing cries of another woman who just lost her husband reverberated through the Brooklyn sanctuary across the street from the collapse. When the woman learned her husband’s body was pulled from the debris Thursday morning, she collapsed and wailed her husband’s name. “Tomás! Tomasito!” she cried. Family members gathered around the widow and formed a prayer circle. Just outside the church, a nervous father also prayed. He was anxiously waiting to learn the fate of his son, a construction worker who has not been reachable since the collapse. In the Flatbush neighborhood – home to a mix of immigrant communities – six adults and two children had died and over a dozen were injured after the three-story mixed-use building collapsed on Veterans Day, a day on which many families stayed home. unknown content item – “I want to take a moment to remember those we have so senselessly lost,” Mayor Zohran Mamdani told reporters Thursday. “These were our friends and our neighbors, parents and children, young families building their lives in our city, and immigrants from Mexico, Colombia, Ecuador, Trinidad, and beyond.” The day after the tragedy, residents and other bystanders crowded the sidewalk as construction equipment was used to remove debris and rubble from the site. Clothes still hung from a closet in an adjoining building where a wall came down during the collapse. A construction worker embraces a child at the scene of the collapse on Wednesday. – Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images North America/Getty Images Heavy rain pelted the intersection of Flatbush and Bedford avenues, a multicultural enclave that is the heart of New York City’s Caribbean diaspora. The names on signs of storefront churches and businesses – from bakeries, restaurants and beauty salons – reflect places like Jamaica, Haiti, Trinidad and Tobago, and more recently, newcomers from Mexico and Ecuador. Among those killed Wednesday were three Colombian citizens, two Ecuadorian men and a 26-year-old Guatemalan man, officials from the countries announced. A six months pregnant woman who was rescued from the collapse this week sustained serious injuries, but her unborn child is still alive, according to a spokesperson for her family. “By the grace of God, both she and her unborn baby are alive. However, she sustained serious injuries and is currently receiving medical care at the hospital,” Mamadou Saliou Diallo, president of the Guinean Community of America New York, said during a news conference Friday morning. The woman’s husband, Fatoumata Binta Bah, said he was returning home from getting groceries when he first saw the commotion. He went around the people gathering thinking it was a car crash, then a woman told him a building had collapsed. “When she told me that, I couldn’t feel where I was anymore. I realized that our building borders this area. I told her ‘My wife is inside, my friends are inside!’” Bah recalled. Another woman who survived the collapse said she had taken the day off from work and had been trying to go to sleep with the lights off in her room because she had a headache. Ciahola Lawrence then heard a loud thump, and when she opened her eyes there was light everywhere and an open view of the rubble. unknown content item – “I could see my neighbors coming out on stretchers – they were already dead. We didn’t deserve this!” Lawrence wailed, later pushing her head into her husband’s chest as her words dissolved into sobs. Zariah, a girl whose family survived the collapse, expressed concern over her family’s cat, who was inside the building at the time of the collapse. “They said they were inside the house to try to find him, but I don’t think they really did,” she said. “He’s hiding from them, and I think he’s scared of them, and I just really want them to come and get our cat.” unknown content item – Starting to become emotional, she said, “They put a lot of lives in danger.” After she finished speaking, Zariah was comforted by New York Attorney General Letitia James. In the aftermath of the collapse, local families, clergy and community groups gathered to support one another while demanding accountability for housing conditions and construction oversight in their predominantly Black and immigrant neighborhood. ‘Go in the church and pray, please’ On Wednesday night, Yupa and other relatives spent hours scouring hospitals throughout Brooklyn hoping to find her son, Gabriel Siguencia. The family then visited the collapse site Thursday. Yupa shielded herself from heavy rain under the canopy of the church as a woman with a West Indian lilt alerted other bystanders nearby that she saw first responders pull a young child and a woman from the rubble. Then came the news about Siguencia, who had arrived in New York from Ecuador only about a month ago and started working as a carpenter at the construction site adjacent to the building collapse about two weeks ago, according to uncles, cousins and family friends. “He came to America looking for the same opportunities that people from all over the world come here for,” said family friend Javier Ortega, who drove Siguencia’s mother to the site from her home in Connecticut. “That’s why he was working there.” Like many other families, Siguencia’s loved ones awaited news about him across the street from the collapse site. Some, like the husband of a six month pregnant woman rescued from the rubble, rejoiced as they received word their loved one was safe. unknown content item – As the downpour intensified Thursday over the neighborhood known as “Little Haiti,” a member of Bethesda Church of God in Christ invited Siguencia’s family inside the warm vestibule. Yupa, weeping, sat on a folding chair as a Haitian church member served her cups of water. As Yupa sobbed, family members surrounded her and Ecuadoran consular officials made calls trying to track down information. Soft murmurs of “Hallelujah, hallelujah” spilled out from the church filled with Haitian worshippers on the other side of the vestibule doors. “We all have to look out for each other in this country,” said the woman who brought water to Yupa and the others. “It doesn’t matter where you come from.” Another woman implored Yupa as she wept: “Go in the church and pray, please.” Time ticked by with a heaviness before officials with the Ecuadoran consul walked Yupa and her friends and family members several blocks in the heavy rain to a nearby YMCA, where relatives of the dead and missing had been gathering. The consul general of Ecuador, Gicela Andrade Valens, later told reporters outside that authorities had confirmed Siguencia’s death to his mother. Another Ecuadorian national, 26-year-old José Luis Caguana Cosquillo, was also killed. Winston Sanchez, who spoke on behalf of Cosquillo’s family, said he had left behind a pregnant wife who is due to give birth soon and that the child would never meet their father. Sanchez said he hopes the city will do more to protect construction workers. “Developers, real estate, different construction companies, they’re making a lot of money with the blood of many construction workers,” Sanchez said. “That is unacceptable, and I hope the city, on behalf of the families, will do more to protect our construction workers.” Colombia’s consulate in New York said two Colombian children and one adult were killed in the collapse. “The Consulate of Colombia in New York reiterates its most sincere condolences to the victims’ families and loved ones,” the consulate said. ‘Nothing like this has ever happened in this neighborhood’ Pastor Alfred Justin Joseph’s church, the Bethesda Church of God in Christ, became an open sanctuary for the injured, the anxious and the grieving. “They were standing in the street. I let them in,” Joseph said. “Thank God we have counselors in the church — people who do counseling for grief.” Various groups have streamed through his church, including a dozen people in the first wave. While some have since been escorted to a local YMCA or hotels, the church remains an epicenter of consolation and support. As she heard the wailing of the young woman who lost her spouse in the collapse, Flatbush resident Joy Kerr led a prayer circle to offer some comfort in a moment of devastation. Kerr walked into the church and found the young woman crying hysterically after learning that her spouse, a construction worker, was killed when the building came down. Kerr listened to the woman sobbing for about half an hour and said, “No, I can’t take this. I can’t sit back and just watch her and listen to her cry so hysterically.” “In that moment, I knew she needed comfort,” she said. She gathered with the woman who had lost her spouse and those around them, and they began to pray. “This is devastating,” Kerr said. “Nothing like this has ever happened in this neighborhood, and we just need to come together and stay together as a community.” unknown content item – And Katie Stevens, a teacher who lives about a block from the building, sobbed after she watched first responders load body bags into a van Thursday morning. “I care for my neighbors so much,” Stevens told CNN. “I’m just so sad.” James Williams, a bricklayer who has lived in the neighborhood for 35 years, stood across the street from the wreckage site Thursday and recalled watching the building’s walls cave in the day before. One image reverberated in his mind: a woman climbing a now-exposed staircase as everything around her was crumbling. “I don’t know if she got out alive or not,” he lamented. “To see that and not know what happened to her … I might have to go see a psychiatrist.” Williams said he knows multiple families affected by the collapse. A friend told him she had been texting with relatives at the site when it collapsed but had not been able to locate them at any local hospitals. As grief rippled through the neighborhood, nonprofits and agencies including the Red Cross, NYC Human Resources Administration and World Central Kitchen helped shaken families with emergency shelter, supplies and updates about missing people. Neighbors call for accountability Officials stand at the site on Thursday – Yuki Iwamura/AP As darkness fell over the collapse site Thursday night, amid thunderclaps and heavy rain, floodlights shone on a now-idle backhoe that had been excavating piles of debris, twisted metal and the pieces of what had been apartments into dumpsters. Crews finished a marathon search through the rubble and determined there were no more survivors to be rescued, officials had said Thursday afternoon. Under umbrellas, people hurried home after work, some stopping momentarily to look at the now-vacant space that had recently been home to many. Across the street, a cluster of older women started gathering early for an evening service at Bethesda Church of God in Christ. “This church happens to be a Haitian Creole speaking church, but the church is open to the entire community,” said Florence Saint-Jean, a psychologist who offers mental health and trauma services at the church. “The people who live here are immigrants, and so when crisis happens, there’s only one language – love,” she said. “People are tired, they’re looking for food, they’re looking for shelter, and the church is always open and available.” The New York City Public Advocate – who serves as an ombudsman for citizen complaints – said Friday many local residents are afraid to speak up when they see violations. “We have the intersection of immigration and people afraid to come out and speak,” Jumanne Williams said. “We want to make sure we’re speaking up for them.” As neighbors hugged and comforted one another, one question created knots in their chests: How could this tragedy have happened? The Department of Buildings has not yet determined the cause of the collapse, and an investigation is underway as new information emerges about the building’s history and construction process. Residents of three buildings on the block are still barred from their homes, and questions are growing over whether the developers were digging for a much larger building than the city approved. Department of Buildings sweeps “have now expanded their scope to more than 160 sites across our city, associated with six entities that are associated with this project,” Mamdani said Friday, adding an outside engineering consulting firm will also provide an independent report. “If we find anyone that has violated the law, we will hold them fully accountable,” the mayor said. The Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office is conducting its own investigation into whether laws were broken at the site of the collapse. “We’re looking at the entire history, and if there are additional things that we need to see, that will be part of the investigation,” Department of Buildings Commissioner Ahmed Tigani said Friday. As investigators try to determine factors in Wednesday’s deadly collapse of the three-story building in Brooklyn, they’ll be looking at both the condition of the collapsed building and activity at the construction site that neighbored it. Cracks had been reported in the facade of the building as part of the permitting process for construction on the adjacent lot, which the collapse spilled into. The building’s owner, Olufemi Falade, has a troubling history that reportedly landed him in jail for 12 days in 2006 for failing to repair hundreds of violations across multiple buildings. Falade was frequently listed on the annual Worst Landlords Watchlist put out by the New York City Public Advocate’s office, although he is not on the most recent list. “I don’t want to speak out of turn. I want to wait for the investigation to outplay,” Williams said. “But I will say if you have multiple negligence, both on the owner’s side and/or the construction side, there definitely should be a criminal investigation and, I believe, arrests at some point if that is the case.” CNN has reached out to Falade for comment. The collapsed building at 1321 Flatbush Avenue currently has 98 open housing violations – ranging from unsafe electrical wiring and a lack of smoke detectors to bedbug infestations and a lack of adequate water supply for the building’s sprinkler system – according to records from the New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development. Local election officials promised to address understaffing in the city’s Department of Buildings. “Right now, the building department has an 8 to 9% vacancy rate,” said New York City Council Speaker Julie Menin. “We will ensure that every single one of those positions is immediately filled.” Though building collapses are rare in the US, lower-income and immigrant neighborhoods often face higher risks of hazards and neglect. Housing experts and advocates have pointed to systemic inequities that disproportionately impact working class immigrant communities, including old buildings, lax code enforcement and rapid construction. Sumathy Kumar, executive director of New York State Tenant Bloc and Housing Justice for All, an organization that works to organize tenants, said the Brooklyn landlord has an extensive and troubling history with the city. “We need better and faster tools to hold landlords accountable and to make sure that buildings are properly maintained and managed,” Kumar said. Saint-Jean said there is a visible distinction between how development occurs in immigrant communities like Flatbush. “What we’re most concerned about is, when things like his happen, that our voice (is) not being heard about development in the area,” she said. CNN’s Ray Sanchez reported from New York and Dalia Faheid from Los Angeles. CNN’s Gloria Pazmino, Eduardo Cuevas, Brynn Gingras, Andy Rose, Rebekah Riess, Alaa Elassar, Graham Hurley, Taylor Romine, John Miller and Holly Yan contributed to this report. For more CNN news and newsletters create an account at CNN.comThis article originally appeared on CNN at https://www.cnn.com/2026/11/13/us/immigrant-community-brooklyn-building-collapse